Life, 1910-01-06 · page 56 of 76
Life — January 6, 1910 — page 56: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, with a continuing serial story ("A Bargain in Brains") filling the right column. The main content includes: **Advertisements:** - **California travel** (Golden State Limited train): Romanticizes California's climate and leisure activities (bathing, golfing, boating) to attract wealthy Chicago/St. Louis travelers - **Cigarettes, billiards equipment, tooth powder**: Standard period product ads **Serial story excerpt**: A doctor discovers a patient with mysteriously low vitality despite good health. The patient confesses to having swallowed poison but remains calm, attributing his acceptance to family circumstances. The narrative emphasizes dramatic medical mystery. **Notable for modern readers**: The advertisements reflect early 1900s leisure culture, targeting affluent audiences with train travel to California and genteel pursuits like billiards. The "poison" plot appears melodramatic by contemporary standards. No political satire is evident on this particular page—it's a commercial magazine focused on entertainment and consumer products.
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CIGARETTES Try the Hadad. A better cigarette for less money, Direct by mail—no middleman's profit for you to pay. Positively pure Turk- ish Leaf. Postage Paid 100 for $1.50. Guaranteed equal to the best, You to be the judge. Order to-day. B. WILDMAN & CO., New Haven, Conn. FOR THE MAN WHO WANTS THE BEST A Bargain in Brains (Continued from page 48) Sty “Everything. My wife has been made S very happy.” Ch The doctor had been studying him in- tently, to % “ How do you feel?” “All right."” “You have no lassitude? ”? : “None whatever. I have been too where the balmy air, redolent of millions of blossoms dispels all thought of busy to notice anything.” rs : @ ; “Let me feel your pulse—my God! wintry blast. Where bathing, boating and golfing are among the daily than, it’s ormal.’* Bees SL Pita os hat should it be?’? possibilities. That's California! “Why, below—subnormal—why, you > es ee The de luxe should have had some difficulty in get- ting here. Wait, let me examine your 2. ° ° j F Fgh : C Golden State Limited Pema salen i ene Noma t The doctor, laboring under the most via Rock Island Lines intense excitement, sprang to the safe : and examined the bottle from which he makes the trip from Chicago or St. Louis in three tad token the polten. twenty fear hours , days: Three days of real pleasure. It is the train a Correct” be groaned. ; of trains, which provides travel luxuries to satisfy He rushed upon the man. He stripped Miles of orange groves, every expectation. Perfectly equipped, barber and | him of his coat. He almost threw him V through the dark green : iy on the operating table. He applied a f leaves of which shine valet, properly heated and ventilated, and brilliantly stethoscope to his heart. the golden velow cf pening lighted. “All regular,"” he groaned again, in an e . F agony of suspense. “Man, you are nor- . § copped eats: bevend. are For sleeping car passengers only. Daily from mal. Something is the matter. I saw 3 ¢ pictures, Chicago to Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San youswallow what polton!’ Francisco via the route of lowest altitude. bee Tika Other good trains every day from Chicago, St. “ Ut hes been G8 your mina? too much a Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and Memphis, with occupied. Besides, I had accepted the e choice of routes. whole situation. I don’t dread it much. The good luck I had given my family Send today for our new beautifully illustrated book on California. Free on request. took away the pain of. ” John Sebastian, Pass. Traffic Manager, 1822 La Salle Station, Chicago, Ill. “Ab! I cannot believe it! It may be that! Let us wai however. Any moment it may come. Lie here. I will stay by you. Don’t speak. We shall (Continued on page 60) ———$ MISS CUE ®@ @ A Lasting Success Py ocr vaw book atioat Mise Cus, covtatalng’ she Deautiful illustrations of Miss Cue at billiards and pool, will be free, postpaid, to anyone interested in Billiards. Miss Cue is shown making shots which have never before been attempted by any billiard player, and the series of pictures is interesting and unique. Just ask for Booklet. William A. Spinks & Company 362 West Erie Street CHICAGO Manafactarers of Spinks’ Billiard Chalk and “The oaty manatactarers of exe tips tu America.” T TOOTH POWDER Most refreshing to the mouth. Whitens the teeth and prevents decay. Mixed with water, it produces peroxide of hydrogen. “WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE, BOYS, THAT Dentists advise Ph: YALL HAD ALL THE FORCE OF NIAGARA.”? Sree Sie — kot Sample and Booklet free on request. McKESSON & ROBBINS - .NEW YORK comicbooks.com