Life, 1910-01-06 · page 12 of 76
Life — January 6, 1910 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and reader letters**, not satirical cartoons. The dominant content features: 1. **Remy Magnetos advertisement** (left side): Promotes automotive electrical equipment, boasting "Over 100,000 Remy Magnetos Sold for 1910." This appears aimed at manufacturers and buyers of early automobiles. 2. **Evans Ale advertisement** (center-bottom): A beer brand promoting health benefits with the slogan "124 Years Doing Good." 3. **Pennsylvania Railroad article** (right side): Describes luxury passenger train services between New York and Chicago, marketed to businessmen who can conduct work aboard. The "From Our Readers" section contains letters debating religious topics and social customs—typical of Life's reader-engagement format rather than satire. The overall page reflects early 1900s commercial culture and consumer interests.
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Jb jueseg Regal Car on 4,(61}¢-mile journey, The driver of the car wrote. “Magneto was under water for hours with- out injury. We attribute a great deal of the success of our trip to the fact that we had no trouble with the Remy Magneto.” 100,000 Remy Magnetos Sold for 1910 Not a quantity user who helped make our immense 1909 season but that adopted the Remy for 1910, besides many manufacturers have adopted the Remy for 1910 who for- merly used other magnetos. Our factory is the largest and _ best equipped plant in the world devoted exclusively to magneto manufacturing. Remy Electric Company ANDERSON, INDIANA Dept. 19 Branch Distributing Offices: 1400-1402 Michigan Ave., Chicago Automobile Building, 64th and Broad- way, New York City 1518 Broad’ Dei Hollis Electric Co., ON. Sixth St, Minneapolis, Mina. J. H. McCullough & Son, HIN, Broad St ri bia, Pa. Cove Trophy won by the ald of the Remy Magneto. From Our Readers (Continued from page 6) Literature and “ Life” Lire, New York. Lire believes that the Roman Catholic Church is not the same in this country as it is in other countries, and cites Mexico. F. R. Guernsey, editor of the Mexican Herald, and for many years Mexican correspondent of the Boston Herald, irequently paid a high tribute to the Roman Catholic clergy of Mexico and to tke Roman Catholic Church there, too. Sce Catholic and Protestant Countries Compared, by Rev. Fr. Young, of the Paulist order, for Protestant tributes to the Catholic Church in Spain. Lire is not to be condemned for its attitude, for lish literature since the Reformation has been antagonistic toward the Catholic Church and its fiction has made much of the Spaniard, using him for its villain, as has the English and American stage. Doubtless Lire means well Respectfully, J. F. Harts. Bostox, Dec. 16, 1909 Our Custom House My pear Lire: Is history repeating itself once more in New York? One of the rhetorical mock cases used in Roman instruction runs: “On all articles except necessaries for travel, there is a tax of 214 per cent Ihe officer is entitled to examine the laggage and confiscate all undeclared dutiable goods: he may not touch women. A woman had goo large pearls in her bosom. The official asks about them. She says he may search her; he refuses, she passes the barrier and he stops her and demands the pearls.”” Friedlander’s Roman Life and Man- ners Under the Early Empire, vol. i, p. 294. English translation published by E. P. Dutton & Co Yours very truly, Witttam: Savace. Srrinc Lake, Micu., Nov. 23, 1909, The One Best EVANS [ending deaters and places. ©. H. EVANS & SONS, Hudson, N.Y. Resolution for the New Year sto order a supply uf ALE and thereby insure 365 days of food health and real enjoyment 124 Years Doing Good Ja Split It desired. 12 PENNSYLVANIA RR. | - Reminder Bulletin There are two trains that the world is watching. They are making records, and re- cords on land and sea and in the air are watched these days. The PENNSYLVANIA SPECIAL is saving time and money to the business man by permitting him to snap down his desk at. 40’clock and meet his asso- ciates in Chicago the next morning as they open theirs. In the meantime he may continue his business with a free stenographer at his elbow or loaf with the conveniences of the club at hand. The “Special” leaves Up- town New York at 3.55 P. M., Downtown by Ferry at 4.00 P. M., Downtown by Hudson & Manhattan Tube at 4.05 P. : M., and arrives in Chicago next morning at 8.55. It kills time because it runs in the night. . “The 24-Hour St. Louis” b is giving the business man an | entire afternoon for recreation at the club, or elsewhere. He may leave Uptown New York at 6.25 P. M., Downtown at 6.30 by Ferry, Downtown at 6.35 by Hudson & Manhat- tan Tube and reach St. Louis at 5.25 the next afternoon. He may enjoy a good night on an easy running train and | continue his work the next day with a stenographer at his beck and cail, or he may do anything he can do at his club except play billiards. > He gets a whole day in New York. These trains are not only time-savers, but nerve-resters. They exhilarate and refresh. They may be banked on ‘for time. Good Word from Texas Dear Lire: Every now and then you get out a number that prove wit and wisdom twins, (Continued on page 16)