Life, 1909-12-16 · page 2 of 32
Life — December 16, 1909 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page consists primarily of **advertisements** rather than satirical content. The ads include: 1. **Makaroff Russian Cigarettes** - features a man's profile with handwritten endorsement, selling "Plain, cork-up or mouthpiece" cigarettes for fifteen cents and a quarter. 2. **Cascade Pure Whisky** - promotes whiskey from Nashville distillers with poetic language about "Life and Vigor of the Grain." 3. **McCallum Silk Hosiery** - advertises women's stockings as Christmas gifts, emphasizing quality and variety. 4. **A single cartoon** (bottom right) depicting a woman at a desk with a child, captioned "SOI, LOIDY, WIPE OFF YOUR CHIN. NOT DAT ONE, D'SENT ONE." This appears to use working-class dialect humor, likely mocking Irish or immigrant speech patterns—a common satirical trope of the era.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
‘Subscription, lars. Single Copies. Ten Cents in England and the Ur that’s the whole story of MAKAROFF RUSSIAN CIGARETS Say MAKAROFF to your dealer today. He has or can get them, instanter. Plain, cork-tip or mouthpiece. Fifteen Cents and a Quarter. HE Callum Silk Hosiery For a Discriminating Christmas Gift to a Lady of Quality Ask for Ladies’ No. 113, thin, very fine gauze, black, and No. 153, companion in white and all colors, mediuin weight and unusually good wearing quality; and Men's No. 308, black, and No. 227, in white and all colors, equal to the bet imported hand-made hore but much lower in price. Infants’ socks in white and colors Guarantee Envelope protects against any defect of mate- tial or manufacture, and provides matched silk mending thread. Sead for our booklet." Throosh ‘My Lady’ 1.° which will in- terest you; and if your deal r hasn't our silk stockings, tell us his name to we may insure your having an opportunity to examine them, McCALLUM HOSIERY COMPANY, Northampton, Mass. Largest Producers of Sik Hosiery in the World Entered at the Most Of%ce at New York, N. Y., a Seng Cass Mal eaters "8 MELLOW AS-MOON oon ASCAD PURE WHISKY The Life and Vigor of the Grain as Moon! and “‘The Life and Vigor odness Cascade Pure descr} Ong as old gold label. Geo. A. Dickel & Co. Distillers Nashville Tena Tone “Sol, LOIDY, WIPE OFF YOUR CHIN, NOT DAT ONE, D: comicbooks.com