Life, 1910-04-21 · page 9 of 44
Life — April 21, 1910 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising-heavy**, featuring commercial content rather than satirical cartoons. The main advertisements are: 1. **Kelly-Springfield Automobile Tires** - A large tire image with text claiming quality maintenance in a new market 2. **The Marmon automobile** - Marketed as "The Easiest Riding Car in The World," priced at $2,650, emphasizing tire economy 3. **Tailored Gowns** advertisement The only editorial content is a small "From Our Readers" letter section titled "The Other Side," which appears to be reader correspondence about women's suffrage in Colorado. The letter expresses concern about women's voting power, suggesting this page dates to the early 1910s during suffrage debates. The page reflects Life's dual role as both satirical magazine and advertising medium of that era.
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LIFE: IFGOING ABROAD sSEnz29 Ki | | , n Sb. ,., 185 <a Regent Street | e y- e \SIVE MODELS in London. FANCY TAILOR i and EVENING FROCKS. MILLINERY, FURS The most EXCL mies. RECEP From Our Readers ued from page 710) The Other Side or Lire » your issue of March 17, Colorado "’ makes scur- ents about suffrage affairs nd the evil effects of the ote, The suffragists seem je res It is enough to know that there is an automobile tire made by the makers jof the famous Kelly-Springfield Vehicle Tires. It is simply a matter of maintaining a high standard of quality in a new field. After a season of Kelly-Springfields our tire bills have been greatly reduced.—Greater New York and horitative testimony to the You will, perhaps, in ing to publish the inclosed the suffragist sheet Prog- fy Yours very truly, Emit A, Crosny, rch 19, 1910. “) MEN PROTEST ent of the Rev, Dr. Under- © City Club of New York, housand women of the under rolled elections in Denver and ¢ had demoralized the do, naturally created ndign in the latte: e and ed Governor Shafroth, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, former Senator T. M. Patterson Stevens, lawyer, and editor Chieftain, to issue the fol as sent out by the Asso ciated T “We wish to denounce the statement of Dr. Underhill and of the unnamed Suburban Transportation Company Consolidated RubberTire Company 20 Vesey Street, New York Branch Offices in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, Detroit, Cincinnati, San Francisco and Akron, O. THE MARMON “The Easiest Riding Car in The World” tions found in the red light distriet of Denver prevail generally throughout the city, and are characteristic of the women of Denver, we cannot permit to go un. challenged. “The wives, daughters and. sisters of Colorado men are the equals of any women on earth in refinement, education TIRE ECONOMY and feminine charn None of these qualities have been Every man that has driven an automobile knows what high speed does to tires. damaged by their fifteen years’ partici- Probably the greatest demonstration of tire cconomy ever made was by Ray Harroun pation in public affairs, while govern. armon stock car in the Vanderbilt race one week and in the Atlanta races the ment has been immeasurably improved ne In these events he covered 736 miles at an average specd of 64% miles per hour, on by such participation. the same set of tires, and never stopped once in any of the races for any purpose. “They have been on the right side of Good tires? Of course they were, but practically every tire manufacturer of the every moral question. Eighty per cent try can show you testimonials from Marmon owners showing how well their particular Cucnde ar base ee ee have stood up on Marmon cars. \ clection, and of the. thirty . thousand No other car of similar power has ever shown anything like the tire economy of women who cast their ballots in Denver the Marmon—and every automobilist knows that tires form the chief item of expense in last fall not more than four hundred maintaining the average car. were women of the under world. It is a great outr. women of our State 40 HP. High Class be so 1 ed, but we must con- =quipment, ourselves with atizing such \ nts as false and malicious.’ $2, 650 From Progress for March, 1910 \ NORDYKE & MARMON CO. Estab. 1851. Indianapolis, Ind. Licensed Under Selden Patent. TAILORED GOWMS *33""=™ —— Remodeled, Refitted, MOON OO ae | Memotcepalred. J. 1. COMSTOCK, Ladies’ Tailor. ms comicbooks.com