Life, 1910-02-03 · page 5 of 44
Life — February 3, 1910 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and reader correspondence**, not political satire. The main content includes: - **Letters to the editor** debating animal testing and ferrets in Spain - **A Peerless Motor Car advertisement** featuring an illustrated early automobile with decorative elements (bare trees, cornfields) - **A small ad for evergreen plants** by Isaac Hicks & Son The only potentially satirical element is the Peerless ad's ornamental framing—the juxtaposition of nature imagery with industrial machinery may suggest contemporary tensions between progress and pastoral life, but this appears incidental to the advertisement's primary purpose. The page reflects early 20th-century concerns: animal welfare debates and automobiles as emerging consumer products.
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(Continued from page 187) + for cerebro-spinal meningitis. Be- this was discovered the mortality at fearful disease was about 80 per It has now been reduced by the timely use of the serum to between 15 and 20 per cent. Monkeys were used in its discovery. You use the word “useless”? cruclties! If they were cruel were they useless? Who says they were cruel? Floor-scrubbers only, ac- cording to the Herald. That is a joke fit for your paper! Would you take the testimony of the floor-scrubber in one of our hospital operating rooms as of any value? You may not know, Lire, th all the animals at Rockefeller In- stitute are etherized before being oper- ated on. Any fool (but Lire and the Herald) would know by exercising ordi- every day common sense (a val- uable asset even for a periodical) that one could not operate to any purpose on an animal, tie him ever so firmly, without etherizing him first, because of his struggles I dare you to print this letter. C. A. MeWittrams. Usiversity Cuve, January 11, 1910. Concerning Ferrer GexTLEMEN : I am so much pleased with the fear- less manner in which you have treated the murder of Ferrer, in Spain, by the Catholic Church, that I am inclosing a dollar for a three months’ subscription. Yours is the first account which I have sen that dares to give the real facts, and am glad that chance brought your Fublication to my attention. Iam sure there are many who must think as I do in the matter, and feel How Hicks Moves Evergreens One year, roots are pruned—next year moved with dirt clamped solidly about them. ‘They grow, Order acarload now. We will plant them If you want us to. " Ry: Send for eatalog of other trees Isaac Hicks & Son Westbury, Long Island | Catalogue Q will be sent on request All That The Name Implies | THE PEERLESS MOTOR CAR CO. 2449 EAST 9358 ST., CLEVELAND, O. MEMBER ASSOCIATION OF LICENSED AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURERS LICENSED UNDER SELDEN PATENT glad that one paper, at least, is not afraid to publish the truth. Keep up the good work. Yours respectfully. R. C. Reep. Bostox, January 1, 1910. Illinois Is Impatient Eprtor “Iarrorer Nusner? oF Lair Care (Probably ere now in custody of A. Comstock) New York City. Dear Sir:—The following resolution appears on the minutes of a special meeting of the “ Spice of Life Societ: 189 “Witereas, It appears impossible to coax, bribe, bluff, or shame the editor of Lire into releasing his death grip on the Improper Number; and “Witerras, The suspending of said number has been and is, to our positive knowledge, interfering with the normal activitiy of many otherwise resolute citi- zens in making New Year's pledges, has prevented (through fear of missing it en route) numerous ‘co-eds’ from spending their Xmas holiday vacation at home, is causing nervousness in the (Continued on page 190) comicbooks.com