Life, 1909-08-19 · page 26 of 28
Life — August 19, 1909 — page 26: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising and book review page** rather than editorial satire. The main elements are: **Advertisements:** - **Du Pont Powder Company**: Promotes 1909 ammunition ("Schultze" and "New E.C." brands) with claimed superiority in stability, accuracy, and recoil management. This reflects early 1900s hunting culture. - **Hunter Baltimore Rye**: Whiskey ad marketing itself as restorative, targeting hot-weather consumption. - **White Rock water**: Claims to be "The World's Best Table Water." **Humorous Content:** The page includes brief comedic anecdotes—some employing **racial stereotypes typical of the era**. One titled "Negro Lingo" features dialect humor about a freedman negotiating wages. Another titled "The Wisdom of Solomon" uses similar stereotyping around a financial transaction. **Book Reviews:** Lists recently published titles with publishers and prices ($1-$1.50 range). The racial material reflects **period attitudes** but isn't presented as explicit satire—rather as stock humor conventions of 1909 Life magazine. The page overall documents early 20th-century consumer culture and publishing.
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EERSE Have you tried The 1909 Issue SCHULTZE NEW E.C.? Their special qualities are STABILITY PERFECT PATTERNS EXCELLENT VELOCITY EASY ON THE SHOULDER Shells loaded with either of these powders can be pur- chased through any dealer. Send 12 cents in stamps for a set of six pictures illustrating “A Day’s Hunt.” Address Dept. S E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS POWDER CO. Wilmington, Del., U. S. As Latest Books The Lady of the Dynamos, by Shaw and Beckwith. (Henry Holt & Co. $1.50 With the Night Mail, by Rudyard Kipling. (Double day, Page & Co. $1.00.) The Great Wet Way, by Alan Dale. & Co. $1.50. The Landlubbers, by Gertrude King. zee & Co.) A Talk on Relaxation, by Alice Katharine Fallows. (A. Co McClurg & Co. "35 cents.) Shakespeare Lexicon, by —. Co. 45 cents.) Self-Measurement, by William De Witt Hyde. (B. ~ Huebsch. so cents.) ee Reale of Three, by Ales, Martin Estabrook. (Small, Maynard & Co,__ $1.25. (Dodd, Mead (Doubleday, (The Macmillan CLARK'S CRUISES AROUND THE WORLD by $5, Cleveland.” 1,408 tans, brand nem, Oct 16°, fom N. ¥., and pom Frise ery ‘Teth ‘Annual Orient Cruse, Grosser Kertuerst." 23 days, tac The Light of Star: (RF. Fenno & Co. $1.00. The Strain of White, by Ada Woodruff Anderson. (Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.) Lanier of the Cavalry, by General Charles King. (J.B. Lippincott Co.) Sainte-Beuve, by George McLean Harper. Gg. B. Lippincott Co. ' $1.50.) Negro Lingo Senator Taylor of Tennessce tells of an old negro whose worthless son was married secretly. The old man heard of it and asked the boy if he was married. “I ain't sayin’ I ain't,” the boy replied. 5 stormed the nm, “T ain't askin’ you i: lis ‘THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON “CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD, TOIL NOT, NEITHER DO THEY SPIN,’” A Financier The negro, although proverbially improvident, sometimes has his weather eye open. A man gave a dime to a young darky who had done him some trifling service. The darky handed it back. “Now, Marse Billy,” he said, ‘ou knows I doan’ want no pay for what I does for you. Des gimme dat ole suit 0’ clo’es youse got on.”"—Youth’s Companion. Mrs, Kicxer: of those banquets, If you are going to another I don't suppose you will HOT DAYS HOT NIGHTS Suggest the fragrant Julep or High Ball made of HUNTER BALTIMORE RYE For recuperation and restoration. It is a pure tonical stimalant. Sold at all fot tas cae d by job WAM, LANAHAN &’S0N, Battioore, Md. know the number of the house when you set back. Mr. Kicker: Oh, yes, I will; I unscrewed it from the door and am taking it with me— Kansas City Journal. “You are all the world to me,” said the man who had been twice divorced. “Yes,” replied the pretty grass widow, “ and if I married you it wouldn't be long before you would be looking around for new worlds to con quer."’"—Chicago Record-Herald. You say you are in love with Miss Baggs?” “T sure am."’ “But I can’t see anything ractive about her.’’ “ Neither can I see it. it’s in the bank, all right.""—Cleveland Lead Whife Rock “The World’s Best Table Water’’ Now ready, 1909 edition of the famous “Richard's Poor Almanack,"” the hit of 1908, Beautifully bound. and illustrated humorous book, Sent for sec. Address White Rock, Flatiron Bldg., New York City. comicbooks.com