Life, 1909-11-25 · page 24 of 32
Life — November 25, 1909 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** for cigarette and travel brands, with brief humorous fillers typical of early 20th-century magazines. **Main Advertisement:** Murad cigarettes emphasizes direct sourcing from Turkish tobacco growers, claiming superior quality at better value than competitors. **Humor Sections:** Three short jokes appear: 1. "Eggciting"—a pun about a hen's confusing behavior 2. "No Hope"—satire suggesting women will never become U.S. President because the Constitution requires the president be over 45, and women allegedly "don't get that old" (mocking both age discrimination and anti-women sentiment) 3. "Not Room Enough"—a rural farmer visiting a city cemetery assumes graves are packed densely because of urban space constraints **Other Ads:** Porto Rico steamship travel, Cortez cigars, Great Bear spring water, and Egyptian cigarettes round out the page. The humor reflects period attitudes: sexism, rural-urban stereotypes, and gentle absurdism rather than sharp political satire.
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We Use These Small Turkish Leaves— Leaves with exquisite aroma. Our own buyers in Turkey, through ancient experience, have learned where the rare leaves grow. They get the pick of each crop, And they buy direct from the planters. They depend on no merchants—pay no merchants’ profits. So these rare leavesthe choicest in the world—are bought at the minimum pri That is why Murads give more for the money than any other cigarettes made. CIGARETTES S. ANARGYROS, New York “zs OUR FOOLISHy (ONTEMPORARIE Eggciting Said a man, “ Now there's no use denying That yon hen is a creature most trying, She will cackle and yell So that I cannot tell Whether she’s laying or lying!” —The Circle. No Hope “Will there ever be a woman Presi- dent?” “No. The Constitution says the Presi- dent must be over forty-five years old, and women don’t get that old.”’—Kansas City Times. FOR _g MEN OF BRAINS IGARS Visit Porto Rico Our steamers afford passengers every luxury of modern travel. Perfect cuisine. Al! out. side staterooms. Metal bedsteads instead of berths, Wireless telegraphy. Porto Rico is an Ideal Winter Resort A spectal crulse of three weeks can be taken from New: York ad around the Island. The steamer fs your hotel! for tlic entiy trip.” The principal ports are visited, $140 covers all expense Write for illustrated booklet The New York & Porto Rico Steamship Co, 12 Broadway, New York Branch Ticket Office, 290 Broadway or Raymond & Whitcomb, Principal Cities The Call: of the Wild Twenty thousand pairs of arms that bea the frantic air, Twenty thousand pair of eyes tnat gleam or gloat or glare. Twenty thousand voices wild that scream and yell and swear— Football—that's all ! —Judge. Asmevitts, N.C. TI South. fe Maxox, the Not Room Enough While riding on an electric car, during his first visit to the city, a fi: the yard of a monument com gravestones and monuments were dis- four-season resort of the lish-like Inn of Asheville played. Turning to his host, he re marked in an awe-stricken voice: “ They dew bury ‘em close in the city, don’t they? "—Lippincott’s, PERRED STOCK GREAT BEAR § “Its purity has “MADE. AT KEY WEST— Egyptian Cigarette comicbooks.com