Life, 1909-07-01 · page 2 of 44
Life — July 1, 1909 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising content** rather than political satire or comics. It contains three product advertisements: 1. **Dow Tire Company** (top): Features an early automobile with testimonial from a Fire Chief praising Dow Inner Tubes' durability and reliability. 2. **Philip Morris Cigarettes** (center-right): Ad claiming superior quality with pricing for Cambridge (25¢) and Ambassador (35¢) sizes. 3. **Clicquot Club Ginger Ale** (bottom-left): Promotes their ginger ale as pure and preservative-free, listing other beverages they manufacture. The single **cartoon** (bottom-right) shows an uncle teaching a city boy to milk a cow—a rural/urban comedy rather than political satire. The humor relies on the child's inexperience with farm life. This is a typical early 20th-century magazine page mixing advertising with light humor.
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Published every Tharsday. Annual Suhscrigtion, Five Dollars. Single Copies, Tea Cents. Copyright in England anid the british Powessions Eatered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., 43 Second, Class Mail Mater. Why Chief Croker Uses Dow Inner Tubes Fire Chief Croker is probably the hardest man on tires in the United States, He has used Dow Tubes on his Fire Department Car for two years and this is what he says about them: “LT have traveled Dow Tubes will cut your They do not deflate from punctures. They have double walls — except at the rim section — and between those walls is a mixture of paste and feathers. When the air attempts to escape it forces this paste into the puncture and hermetically teals it at once, Dow tubes run cooler than others and they keep the tires always thoroughly inflated and thus prevent rim-cutting of the casing. low Tubes are sold by dealers in automobile supplies throughout the country. Write for descriptive literature. DOW TIRE COMPANY 2000 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 893 BOYLSTON ST., BOSTON There is a heap of difference in ginger ales, and the difference between poor and perfect belongs to you if you order Clicquot Club Ginger Ale. Of pure water, ginger and sugar it is always the same, delicious and wholesome. Non-astringent and without preservatives. We also make Birch Beer Sarsaparilla Blood Orange Root Beer Lemon Soda —— All of “Clicquot” quality CLICQUOT CLUB CO., Millis, Mass., U. S. A. CAMBRIDGE regular size AMBASSADOR alter dinner size It is doubtless possible to make other cigarettes as good—but, that possibility has never yet been realized LYAPY z OW (LL LEARN YE TO MILK THE cow. pf Nephew from the City: 0M, UNKIn, I'M KINDER 'FRAID 0” THE COW; COULDN'T 1 JUST AS WELL LEARN ON THE CALP? comicbooks.com