Life, 1910-02-17 · page 37 of 44
Life — February 17, 1910 — page 37: what you’re looking at
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This page combines advertisements with satirical content typical of early 1900s Life magazine. **"A Fool for Luck"** (center cartoon): The illustration depicts a man in a car that has been submerged in water, humorously captioned to suggest the driver attributes survival to luck rather than mechanical reliability. The accompanying Remy Magnetos advertisement uses this anecdote to promote their product's durability—claiming the magneto functioned despite extended water exposure, positioning this as engineering excellence rather than chance. **"Sparks from Old Anvils"** (top): A humorous anecdote about a child misunderstanding the George Washington cherry-tree fable. Rather than grasping the moral about honesty, the child inverts it, concluding George would rather tell lies than cut down trees. The satire targets both children's logic and adults' patience with youth. The remaining content consists of period advertisements for Pond's Vanishing Cream, Old Overholt whiskey, and the Remy magneto company—typical commercial content filling Life's pages alongside editorial humor.
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LIFE: An exquisitely dainty, non-oily toilet cream of re- freshing Jacque Rose fragrance. “Vanishing Cream” quickly heals and effectively prevents Chaps and Windburn Free Sample on request or send dc in stamps tor regular 10c tube, POND’S EXTRACT COMPANY Dept, F, 78 Hudson S., N.Y, Birds of a Feather Adlai Stevenson, in his lately pub- lished reminiscences, tells the story of Mr. Clark, counsel in a contested will case by which money had been diverted from the family. In explanation of this Clark said: “This is an illustration of the power of friendship. All history, sacred and profane, is full of instances of personal attachment. Who can for- set the undying affection of David and Jonathan, of Damon and Pythias, of Scylla and Charybdis? "—The Christian “Good” Old Overholt is the expression used by many men who know what whiskey quality mean: y calling for Old Overholt Rye they get a ripe, mel low whiskey of rare bou quet and flavor. Ask fo: Old Overholt A. Overholt & Co. Distillers Pittsburg, Pe. Sparks from Old Anvils (Continued from page 300) I cannot tell a lic, I did it with my little hatchet.’ And his father said, ‘Noble boy, I would rather lose a thousand trees than have you tell a lic?” “ George did?” “No, his father said that.” “Said he'd rather have a thousand apple-trees?” “No, no, no; said he'd rather lose a thousand apple-trees than—” “Said he'd rather George would?” id he’d rather he would than Oh! George would rather have his father lie?” We are patient and we love children, but if Mrs. Caruthers hadn’t come and got her prodigy at that critical juncture we don’t believe all Burlington could have pulled us out of the snarl. And as Clarence Alencon de Marchemont Caruthers pattered down the stairs we heard him telling his ma about a boy who had a father named George, and he told him to cut down an apple- tree, and he said he’d rather tell a thousand lies than cut down one apple- tree. “A FOOL FOR LUCK’? son Regal Car on 4(81}¢-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 rgro, 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 471 Woodward Ave., Detroit 406 East 15th St., Kansas City 170 Golden Gate Ave.. | San Francisco AGENCIES: comicbooks.com