Life, 1909-03-11 · page 24 of 36
Life — March 11, 1909 — page 24: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains primarily **advertisements and humorous anecdotes**—not political cartoons. The main features are: **Advertisements**: Maillard's Breakfast Cocoa (top) and Buffalo Lithia Springs Water (right)—medical testimonials claiming the water treats bladder and kidney ailments. These reflect early 20th-century patent medicine marketing, exploiting perceived health concerns with pseudo-scientific endorsements. **Humorous Anecdotes**: - "Twain's Reputation": A Mark Twain story about being distrusted in his Hartford hometown (self-deprecating humor) - "Our Foolish Contemporaries": Examples of newspaper errors and absurd misunderstandings (like a reporter describing Charlemagne Tower as "illuminated" in a news dispatch) - "Forebodings": A joke about a doctor refusing to visit a patient whose wife has a self-help medical book The page exemplifies *Life* magazine's satirical formula: mocking careless journalism, social pretension, and gullibility—here particularly the credulity of medical advertising.
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“The Best Cocoa of Them All” Cocoas differ. Not only are there grades of quality, but the processes of manufacture differ and play an important part. Breakfast Cocoa is the result of 50 years of practical rience. The punty of the cocoa is a: —its richness and delicate flavor is proached. Itcan be readily digeste is the best of all Winter drinks—it oat the cold. luncheon restaurant, expe ssured unap. d and keeps Served at our famous Fifth Avenue, cor. 35th St. New York And on sale at leading grocers, Twain's Reputation j Mark Twain was talking about the famoss jj robbery in his beautiful country bouse 1 “Had I been living in Hartford,” he said whimsically, “some of my Hartford friesds would certainly have accused me of robbing my. | self. They had a poor opinion of me in tha town “Marshall Jewell, the ex-governor, used tp take up the collection in our Hartford church They never asked me to take it up. I frettel a good deal over this matter. “*See here, Jewell,’ I said, one day, ‘they let you take up the collection every Sunday, but they would never let me do it.’ “*Oh, yes, they would,’ said Jewell-— that is, with a bell punch like the horse car conductor use.’ ""—Boston Herald. Asnevitte, N. C.: The four-season resort of the South, Tue Manor, the English-like Inn of Asheville A Pious Advertisement Moral suasion of the most ingenious kind is evident in the following advertisemen’, printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette for June The author of this little masterpiece is to be no other than Franklin himself then, stands for Deborah Franklip Taken out of a pew in the church, so since, a Common Prayer Book, b gilt, and lettered D. F. on each cover son who took it is advised to open it the eighth Commandment, and after turn it into the same pew again: upon which 20 further notice will be taken.—Youti’s Com panion, Hore Cuerx: I found the “Not to be used except in case of fire’ placard those college boys stele out of the corridor. Manacer: Where? Creek: They'd nailed it up over the coal-tia —Boston Transcript, When Tower Loomed It was while Charlemagne Tower was Ambas- sador to Russia that a New York City news- paper “spread itself” upon a fete held at St. Petersburg. A green copy-reader produced this result: “As pleasing to the eye as was all this decora- tion there was additional pleasure in the sight, as one stood at the head of the Prospekt Nevska, of Charlemagne Tower, brilliantly illuminated, looming grand and imposing against the winter sky.”"—Times, Two London cabbies were glaring at each other, “Aw, wot’s the matter with you? '? demanded one Nothink’s the matter with me, you bloomin’ idiot “You gave me first “Me? Why, you certainly ‘ave a n: but I didn’t give it to you, so ‘elp me! body's. narsty look," persisted the Forebodings Hussaxo: Our little boy is sick, doctor, so please come at once Piysician: I can't get over much under an : Oh, do, doctor. You see, my wife has a book on “ What to Do Before the Doctor Comes,"’ and I’m so afraid she'll do it before you get there!—Harper’s Weekly. mond, Va.: pressed in regard to it.”” other causes; I have Nervous and Mental Diseases, of my sheet anchors.’” FFALO Is Successfully Employed by the Profession In the Treatment of Inflam- mation of the Bladder, Albuminuria, Brights Disease and Uric Acid Conditions. The Long Experience and Many Carefully Conducted Experiments of These Well-Known Medical Men Entitle Thelr Opinions to Consideration. Hunter McGuire, M. D., LL.D., Ex-Pres. American Medical Association, late Pres and Prof. of Clinical Sur; “In Uric Acid Gravel, and, indeed in diseases generally dependent upon a Uric Acid Diathesis, it is a remedy of extraordinary potency. Many years experience in its use only confirm the good opinion I Graeme M. Hammond, M. D. System in the New York Post-Grad cases of Bright’s Dis- of the greatest service ease I have found BUFFALO LivHiA WATER in increasing tho quan- tity of urine and in eliminating the Albumen.’’ Robert Battey, M. D., Rome, Ga., Suggester of Battey’s Operation: ‘I bevy BUFFALO LITHIA WATER Bladder, whether induced by Stone, by enlarged prostate in the aged or from excellent results from its use.’’ 4. Allison Hodges, M. D., Pres. University Colle, LITHIA SPRINGS WATER. , University College of Medicine, Rich- ave so often ex- Prof. of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous uate Medical Sc! and Hospital: ‘In al! in my practice for three years past, in cases ef Chronic Inflammation of the of Medicine and Prof. of ‘In Albuminuria of Pregnancy, Ricl this water is one of the very best alkaline Diuretics, and, in a milk diet, is one Voluminous medical testimony mailed on request. For sale by general Drug and Mineral Water trade. HLA NPRIN GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER comicbooks.com