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Life — November 4, 1909 — page 33: Life, 1909-11-04

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This is primarily an **advertising page** with minimal editorial content. The main elements are: **The Cartoon:** A small two-panel joke at bottom-left shows two men ("Rooster" and "Duck") discussing whether today will be a "corker" (excellent day). The punchline's humor is unclear without more context, though it appears to play on expectations versus reality. **Primary Advertisements:** - **Libbey Cut Glass**: The dominant ad promotes cut glass as an ideal gift for any occasion (young women, mothers, professionals), emphasizing it "never fails of a welcome" and maintains its aesthetic appeal. The branding emphasis on "Libbey" being "the world's best" reflects early 20th-century marketing strategy. - **John Holland Fountain Pen** and **Sturtevant Ventilating Set**: Standard product advertisements. **Editorial Content:** A brief piece on **milk purity** quotes Nathan Straus discussing pasteurization laws, with a humorous anecdote about a Maine milkman defending adulterated milk using philosophical wordplay ("to the pure all things are pure"). The page reflects commercial advertising priorities typical of *Life* magazine's era, with minimal satirical editorial content visible.

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EXHAUST THE SMOKE AND THE WARM AND DEAD AIR WITH A Sturtevant Ready-to-Run Ventilating Set Either Blows Fresh Air in or Takes Foul Air Out Thi: set is so small it can be carried from room to toon, and is run by a Bexible cord and plug attached to an electric light socket. One of these sets will completely change the air Ws soon 10 E3120 tes ob laverege! Meight, ia fovea minutes These electric sets are being used in Clubs, fices and for ventilating Smoking Rooms, ; Rooms, Toilets, Telephone Booths, Bank Sleeping Rooms, Kitchens, Sick Rooms ing draft ia Home Furnaces, ware FoR La Cares peices, oot B.F. STURTEVANT CO., 1 HYDE PARK, MASS. |@ Who is it you have in mind— some one just entering upon fresh jand rosy young girlhood? |G What will appeal to her budding love of beauty so charmingly as a little piece of cut glass for the toilet table? Yooster: Gosu! 1 THOUGHT YoU SAID TO-DAY WOULD BE A CORKER? Duck; WELL, ISN'T IT? GIs it one with whitening hair— your mother, or some dearly loved old friend? (Q Again—cut glass. |G@The young wife and mother; the fiancee; the man of affairs; the boy at college—in dining room, library, boudoir or den, there is a vacant place waiting to be beau- |tified by a piece of cut glass. ~ |@Cut glass never wearies the eye ; The Libbey Glass eS WoRLD's BEST Cut Glass—the Gift that Never Fails of a Welcome never loses its first charm; never diminishesin lustre and loveliness. QIt is eminently practical—and still a source of aesthetic satis- faction. @ The more you study its possibili- ties for gift-purposes—the more numerous will be your cut glass pur- @And this will in- evitably lead you to insist that the glass you choose shall have the name Libbey ‘graven in the glass. @ Because Libbey Cut Glass is in very fact ‘‘the world’s best.”” @One store in each city sells Libbey cut glass and no other. Company, Toledo, Ohio Writes smoothly because the fissured feed--an exclusive Holland feature — assures even ink flow. The Hold-Fast Cap, which costs 25 cents gia, may. be applied to any John Holland en. loss. Prices from $2 upwards, John Holland Fountain Pen THE JOHN HOLLAND GOLD PEN is the perfection of nearly Seventy years of successful Device holds pen fast to pocket and prevents pen-making. Every John Holland Fountain Pen is fitted with thie Gold Pen— recognized STANDARD the world over. Proved best by Time's test. To be had in over 200 styles and in three types — standard, self-inking and safety -- all demonstrated successes. 1f your nearby dealer does not handle, write us. We'll gladly send Free Mlustrated Catalog KE. THE JOHN HOLLAND Established 1841 GOLD PEN CO. Cincinnati Pure Milk Nathan Straus, discussing the absurd | | | | | | chasesforChristmas. difficulties that confront sanitists in their pass laws compelling th milk, said endeavor to pasteurizatior “The le; bring forward arguments about as weak as that of the Maine milkman “A lady, summering in Maine, said to her milkman severely: “Look here! This milk of yours is half water and half chalk. What do you mean by advertising it as pure?’ “*Madam,’ said the milk manufac- turer, with reproachful dignity, ‘to the pure all things are pure.’ ''—/udge. ors who oppose this law comicbooks.com