Life, 1909-09-30 · page 31 of 32
Life — September 30, 1909 — page 31: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and promotional content** rather than satirical cartoons. The main elements are: **Top Section - "Stubbs and Washington":** A brief anecdote about Governor Stubbs meeting a drunk Kentucky colonel who compliments Stubbs by comparing him favorably to George Washington, then confuses him with Booker T. Washington. The joke relies on the colonel's intoxication causing him to conflate different prominent figures—likely playing on period stereotypes about Southern gentlemen and alcohol. **Main Content:** Promotion for *Recreation* magazine's October "Special Hunting Number" (1909), featuring contributors like aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss and football coach Walter Camp. It emphasizes duck photography and outdoor content. **Advertisements:** Philip Morris cigarettes and Evans' Ale dominate the right side—period products now considered harmful or outdated. The small cartoon at top-left about ink and blotters is a minor joke unrelated to the page's main content.
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*LIFE: Stubbs and Washington Ed. Martindale tells this story as one of the incidents of Governor Stubbs’s visit at Washing- ton, Stubbs met a Kentucky colonel who had on a pretty big load of the juice that invigorates nd later inebriates. The Colonel started out by | i overnor, we, the people have heard of you, sah. Tam ls cet you, — | : sah. My people, sah, think you a greater man PHILIP M Is “You flatter me overmuch. George Washing- ORIGINAL LONDON Sh OF THE DRAWBACKS OF USING INK 1S “ Thunder, Booker T. \ FELLOW CAN NEVER FIND A BLOTTER.” Washing Try them—just once —and find out for yourself what a bully good smoke they are CAMBRIDGE yea SC. For OCTOBER SPECIAL HUNTING NUMBER | 7 rm tte ms Ba ; No Race Suite Including all the 1909 Game Laws een arene sera ie Sir Squire and Lady Bancroft. Some of these, of course, originate with the always 4 The most attractive cover design, the finest illustrations and the best li. J. Byron. To. a. provincial. landlsly articles and stories yet published in this magazine. The finest number of an erly-complained of having :een altacked::by outdoor periodical ever published in America. The most remarkable photographs of flying ducks you ever saw. Fly- ing aeroplanes and flying football players, too. ids Some of the contributors will be: Exchanging Solemn Thoughts “Ah.” says the man with the parted whiske: EMERSON HOUGH (Sport in the Sunken Lands) Wri ike wandeae el etalon now fuille, WALTER CAMP (Football) how puny man seems! How vain, how puerile W. M. NEWSON (Photographing Flying Ducks) es and longings, when he is surrounded GLENN H. CURTISS (Aviation) f Has this CHARLES B. COOKE (Field Trials) J. D. FIGGINS (The New Olympic National Park) T. S. VAN DYKE (The Bob White Quail) WM. C. COLEMAN (Moose) W. P. STEPHENS (The Sailing Dinghy) C. EMERSON BROWNE (Caribou) WILL FRAKES (Mountain Sheep) No sportsman should miss reading this big, beautiful special hunting number. The pictures alone will be worth many times the price. You will admit the cover design is the best duck hunting picture you have ever seen, You will want all your friends to see it. It will be on sale September 28th. If you buy your magazines from vour newsdealer, order it of him at once and insure getting it promptly. If vou have no regular place where you buy your magazines, send 25 cents lirect to us and get October RECREATION by return mail, Ac elebration cad Address Circulation Department THE HOME OF EVANS’ ALE October Oth to Oth, 1h RECREATION, Recreation Building, New York City | , Comicbooks.com —