Life, 1909-07-01 · page 8 of 44
Life — July 1, 1909 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising content** from Life magazine, circa 1909. The left side features ads for Vivella flannel (marketed for summer activities like golf and tennis, emphasizing it "does not shrink") and J. & F. Martell Cognac brandy. The right side contains a **Steinway piano advertisement** and a small illustration labeled "Female Voice at the Other End" depicting a woman at what appears to be a telephone, with dialogue mentioning "seven—quite informally—do come as you are." This final illustration appears to be **social satire about telephone etiquette**—likely mocking informal or improper phone interactions among the era's social classes. The page itself contains **no political cartoons**, just period advertisements and light social humor.
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aise Be WIVELLA’ FLANNEL — Summer Designs for 1909 FOR Golf, Tennis, Automobiling “Viyella” can be obtained at all leading Retail and Men’s Furnishing Stores. DOES NOT SHRINK N the esigning and manufacture Period and Art cases to faces with an architecture or decoration, Steinway & Sons are the recog- i. leaders, as_ in departments of piano making— a distinction they have enjoyed for three generations. Every |STEINWAY ART PIANO isa true representation of its respective | period—a veritable gem of beauty and pertection. A - visit fo the Steinway Studios will reveal that, in these masterpieces of pianocraft, music and decorative art are so dell blended that they at once comman ¢ admiration and praise of architech ariat and conmolsscur STEINWAY & SONS, Stelaway Hall 107 and 109 East 14th Street, (Subway Express Station at the New York Door) plan of | * all other J. & F. MARTELL Cognac (Founded 1715) FINE OLD LIQUEUR BRANDIES Fg 4 GENUINE OLD BRANDIES MADE FROM WINE Sole Agents G.S. NICHOLAS 6CO, New York Female Voice at the Other End: yes, Wk DINE AT SEVEN—QUITE INFORMALLY—SO COME AS YOU ARE. comicbooks.com