Life, 1909-12-02 · page 71 of 80
Life — December 2, 1909 — page 71: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily a **commercial advertising page** rather than political satire. The main content consists of two large product advertisements: 1. **Gillette Safety Razor ad** (center/right): Promotes razors as ideal Christmas gifts, emphasizing their daily utility and durability. The copy highlights that men form "peculiar attachments" to their razors and suggests buying multiple models. 2. **Bissell Carpet Sweeper ad** (left): Markets ball-bearing sweepers as practical gifts that provide "ten years or more" of utility, appealing to gift-givers seeking lasting value. The page also includes a **serialized essay** titled "Sparks From Old Anvils" (a literary column) and "The Press" section—an autobiographical anecdote in deliberately misspelled dialect about a show promoter's conflicts with editors who extort advertising payment. The overall page represents **early 20th-century consumer magazine content**: mixing literature with advertisements targeting holiday shoppers. There is no political cartoon or satire present.
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Sparks From Old Anvils (Continued from page 830) after a while, one gets to know the warm-hued natures it belongs to from the pretty pipe-clay counterfeits of it. Proud she may be in the sense of re- specting herself, but pride in the sense of contemning others less gifted than erself deserves the two lowest circles f a vulgar woman's Inferno, where the punishments are Smallpox and Bankruptey.—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Iutocrat of “ The Breakfast Table.” The Press WANT the editors to cum to my Show free as the flours of May, but I don't want um to ride a free oss to deth, Thare is times when Patience seizes to be virtoous, I hev “in my mind’s eye, Hurrashio” (cota- shun from Hamlick), sum editers in a sertin town which shall be nameless, who air Both sneakin and ornery y cum in krowds to my Show and xt me ten sents a lines for Puffs id to payin, but they sed ef 1 didn’t down with the dust thay'd wipe my Show from the face of the earth! Thay sed the Press was the Arky- median Lever which moved the wurld. I put up to their extorshuns until thay'd bled me so I was a meer shad- and left in disgust. It was ina surtin town in Virginny, the Muther of Presidents and things, that [ was shaimfully aboozed by a cditer in human form. He set my Show up stecp and kalled me the ur- What Article Can You Buy at the Same Cost that will contribute as much genuine and lasting pleasure and comfort to the recipient as a Bissell c: BALL BEARING Carpet Sweeper ? It reduces the labor about 95, making it a constant reminder of the giver for ten years or more, and will gratity mother, wife, sister or friend during all this time as ho other article ata similar cost possibly can, At all prices from $2.75 up. Write for booklet showing our most popular brands. A Free Christmas Gift Buy a Bissell “Cyco"’ Ball Bearing Sweeper of your dealer between now and Jan. 1, send us the purchase slip within one week fro.n date of pur- chase, and we will send you FREE a fine quality leather card case with no Drinting on It. BISSELL CARPET For His Christmas A Gillette Safety Razor he most useful and practical gift for a man. Something he will use every day of the year, and every year of his life. Something he will treasure. A man forms a peculiar attachment for his Gillette Razor—thinks more of it than any other article of personal use. It is so efficient and workman- like, so easy and safe—no stropping, no honing—no special care. A beautiful gift, too! The Gillette is as compact and as handsomely finished as a piece of jewelry. If he has never tried the Gillette he will be astonished and delighted when he uses it and will thank you for a great comfort and convenience. If he already owns a Gillette, give him one of the new models. * Hundreds of Gillette enthusiasts own half a dozen or more Gilets Razors. GILLETTE SALES CO. Standard Sct, full leather case, $5. Cae ; Standard Set, in neat metal case, $5. Bonen Mer teat loadee Beitio. Berta New Pocket Edition, $5 to $7.50. : mes Bide. D Combination Sets, $6.50 to $50. ee ee ee sect bane and gentlemunly manajer, but when I, fur the purpuss of showin fair play all around, went to anuther offiss to git my handbills printed, what duz this puss mus editer do but change his toon and abooze me like a Injun. He sed my wax wurks a humbug and called me a harey-heded itinerent vagabone. I thort at fust Ide pollish him orf ar-lar the Beneki Boy, but on reflectin that he cood pollish me much wuss in his paper, I giv it up. (Continued om page 833) FX) The Antisoptio Powder for the Feet. When rubbers become necessary and BS hoes pinch, s| ¢ out of corns thing for patent D, id everywhere, 25c,_Don't accept any substitute. FREE TRIAL PACKAGE sent by mail, Address, ALLEN S. OLMSTED,Le Roy, N.Y, comicbooks.com