Life, 1910-03-03 · page 71 of 80
Life — March 3, 1910 — page 71: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **vintage advertisements** rather than political cartoons. The primary content is a large ad for **Pabst Extract**, a malt beverage marketed as a medicinal "tonic" and "food." The ad's pitch reflects early 20th-century patent medicine culture: it claims the product strengthens the weak, cures insomnia, aids digestion, and helps nursing mothers—assertions that would be illegal today. The elaborate illustration shows idealized figures of health and vitality, appealing to consumers' anxieties about winter illness and weakness. Below is an unrelated humor piece about a letter by author William Thackeray written while he had a head cold, showing his misspellings—a lighthearted literary anecdote. The page also includes ads for investment securities and **Underberg Bitters**, another medicinal alcohol product. These reflect a pre-FDA era when such beverages made sweeping health claims without regulation, marketing themselves as solutions to vague ailments like "nerve exhaustion" and "listlessness."
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INVESTMENT SECURITIES sew Qn < ° Bank and Trust || and High-Class Co. Stocks Industrials Complete facilities Wespecilize stocks for purchase and ding entirely ule of Stocks in Banks || on ote demand for and Trust Companies || security and upon busi- located anywhere in || ness operations for United States, Our || profits, Our customers currzat Lists present || may invest in moderate tnwual opportunities || amounts and pay in for investment in new || convenient installments banks in growing towns e largest investment as well as in established || business of thischaracter dividend-paying banks, |) in the world—over forty We quote lowest prices, || thousand discriminating customers, Waite for out free No. 110° setting fot the facts tegueksg Bank Stoc jeatment. We will abo mail y co current list, STERLING DEBENTURE CORPORATION BRUNSWICK BUILDING MADISON SQUARE oe NEW YORK ou A Cold in Thackeray’s Pen The saying that “A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest nen" is borne out by a letter of Wil- liam M. Thackeray, sold the other day. It was inserted in a first edition of “William Makepeas Thackeray, by Anthony Trollope. The work was fur- ther extra-illustrated by autographs of Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle, John Leach, Trollope, W. H. Ainsworth and Robert Browning, and by portraits of a number of British authors. The item sold for $145. ‘Thackeray's letter was written while he was suffering from a cold in the head. It is: 13 Youg St, Kedsigtod. By Dear Sprig: Rice (Thomas Spring Rice) Rebebber your probise to dide with be ol Wedlesday at 6 o'clock. Ad obdibus will brig you to the Street, at the house is the elegadt balsiol ol the right-had, with the bow-widdledows Your brother repealer.— W. M. THack~ The Wasp. aT ner berg foe World's Best Equally good as tonic or cordial. Appetizes, pre- vents indigestion and benefits ev- eryone. | ¢ LUYTIES BROTHERS U.S. Agents. New York. Needs Such Vu. — Overworked “4 Food as This *” especially at this time of the year when winter has left you so susceptible to the ravages ofsickness and disease. At this time, more than any other, your body re- quiresa pure, wholesome, predigested liquid that is easily and quickly imilated—one that will build up wasted tissues and weakened muscles—one that will strengthen and actually impart energy and vigor and life. That is why physicians everywhere recommend the use of The Best Tonic a perfect food welcomed by the weakest stomach—containing all the nutritive and digestive properties of pure, rich barley malt and the quieting and restorative qualities of choicest hops in predigested liquid form. It, is the ideal spring food —giving men and women just the right energy and strength to take their part in the battle of life. Pabst Extract, The ‘Best’ Tonic is used all over the world 1; “ to strengthen the weak and build up the over-worke lieve insomnia and conquer dyspepsia; to help the a and turn nerve exhaustion into active, healthy vi encourage listless convalescence to rapid reco} to assist nursing mothers and reinvigorate old age. Order a dozen from your druggist—Insist upon it being Pabst re booklet, “Health Darts” tells ALL uses Encourages and benefits of Pabst Listless Con~ Extract. Write for wales it—a postal will de. Library Sup, PABST EXTRACT CO, Dept. 12 Milwaukee Ho, Pasteur ! A mongrel collie dog, made frantic by the attempts of a policeman to shoot it, created a scare in the fashionable Lin- coln Park section of Newark yesterday. The dog was captured by an agent of the New Jersey Humane Society. An hour later, at the society's shelter, it re- covered from its fright and showed no evidence of rabies. Two other dogs were brought to the socicty’s rooms yes- terday, each of which was said to be suffering from rabies.—New York Times. as “WELL, NOW THAT YOU'VE LAID THE EGG, WHY DON’T YoU CACKLE?"* “ HUM—1 SHOULD SAY NOT—I'M A SUF- FRAGETTE!’"