Life, 1909-04-01 · page 8 of 52
Life — April 1, 1909 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two separate pieces: **Top: "Welch's Grape Juice" Advertisement** A straightforward product ad emphasizing the quality and purity of Welch's grape juice, made from Concord grapes. No satire or political content. **Bottom: "Heavy Tire Expense" - DOW Tubes Advertisement** A humorous cartoon shows a burglar at a homeowner's door with the caption "SIR—IS THIS THE WAY TO HOBOKEN, PLEASE?" The joke appears to be that a burglar is brazenly asking directions while committing a crime, playing on the absurdity of criminals being polite or lost. Below this is a straightforward advertisement for DOW tire tubes, claiming they prevent punctures, blowouts, and rim damage. Neither piece contains political satire or caricature worthy of historical analysis—the page is primarily advertising with a single generic humor cartoon.
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Harry Lauder's First Game of Golf Murdoch and I had given a very successful concert in Montrose, and the next morniny we discovered a couple of golf balls lying in a cor. ner of our room. “What dae ye say tae a game, Mac?" sug. gested I “M ’ replied that “he wasna’ a very ood player.” I was more honest, and admitted that Ms I could not play at all Grape Juice However, the landlady came in and, he our project, she remarked: Hoots, lads, plays gowff nooadays. I'll gie ye some ‘OU who use grape juice could ask nothing richer Jamie's clubs, an” ye can step doon tac the links chek in two-three meenits.”” and sweeter than the juice of the Concord Grapes So off we sct, each no doubt mentally wonder. which ripened last fall. ing what sort of show the other would make. Thi i . fem w When we arrived at the links we strolled up to While the yield was small the quality was better the Gest tee we sae and laid down our lupe than it has been in years, ments. Murdoch wanted me to play the firs The choicest from all that the Chautauqua Grape shot, but I said, “No, Mac; yevre a bene player * . *, a an’ you'll get the honor."’ Judgin; Belt produced was at our disposal in making Welch's the expression in oy Goupanten'a. (ike, t poled Grape Juice, and the result is a million gallons of see that he did not value the “honor’’ very fresh, new juice—a little sweeter, richer and better highly. However, he agreed to begin “Now, Harry,” says be, “watch where this than the best of any previous year. F ts. Stand back!"? Welch’s Grape Juice is soldonly under the Welch I jumped aside lively, and it was well that 1 label; a label that stands for purity and a process of did so, for “ Mac forthwith began to swing bis manufacture that transfers the jui td fre the full-ri club in the most desperate fashion. He cleft the . a juice Irom the full-ripe air with a vicious swipe, and I kept staring ahead fruit to the bottles without preservatives or adultera- to see in what direction the ball had flown. tions of any kind. “T never saw it, Mac!" I exclaimed, turning If your dealer doesn't keep Weleh's, send $3.00 mers eee ew foread emaitex ("1 fH , 5 “No,"’ he replied, with a forced smile. “I~ Ginatan, Bookie ‘ot forty deliions: way of well, I sort o' missed ma swing that time using Welch's Grape Juice, free. Sample 3.02. Here’s the ball ower on my right.” bottle by mall, 10 cents. 7 \ ‘And, sure enough, the puir wee ba’ was lying ‘The Welch Grape Juice Co., Westfield, N.Y. : half-a-dozen yards from the tee, with a big black 4 gash in its bonny white side. “That's a shot! aid I, promptly, as I no- ticed that “ Mac’ about to lift the ball for another attack from the tee, and I carefully piled up three handfuls of sand for my own first at tempt. It seemed to me that the more sand you used the better chance had you of hitting the ball! That attempt was far more disastrous thas y opponent's, for I broke my club, filled Mac’s"’ eyes with sand, and meved the ball fully six inches. “That's a shot, hang you!’ yelled “ Mac,” (Continued on page 431) HEAVY TIRE EXPENSE IS A DRAWBACK TO AUTOMOBILING YOU CAN REDUCE TIRE EXPENSE TO A MINIMUM BY USING DOW TUBES No Flat Tires No Blowouts from Punctures from Rim Cuts No Rim Cut Casings é No Delays on the Road on Dirgler: ERAS THIS THE Way TO. MOROKEN, DOW TIRE COMPANY 2000 Broadway, N. Y. 893 BOYLSTON ST., BOSTON