Life, 1910-05-12 · page 8 of 44
Life — May 12, 1910 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and magazine promotion** rather than satirical content. The left side contains ads for **The Holbrook Co.** (automobile bodies) and **W.L. Douglas Shoes**, featuring a portrait photograph of Douglas himself promoting his $3 and $4 shoes. The right side is a full-page advertisement for **June Ainslee's Magazine**, promoting its fiction content. It lists three complete novels by Leonard Merrick, Emily Post, and Harold McGrath, plus twelve short stories by various authors including Joseph C. Lincoln and Martha McCulloch Williams. The magazine cost 15 cents per copy or $1.80 annually. At the top right is a brief humor item titled "Waterproof" about a sister getting caught in a storm. This is essentially a **table of contents/subscription pitch**, not political satire.
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Seven Passenger Touring Car Body BUILDERS OF THE BEST AUTOMOBILE BODIES Trt HOLBROOK ©. 509-15 West 56th Street NEW YORK Tarred with the Same Stick (Continued from page 867) lar. It looked large on the plate against the ten-cent pieces and quarters of the others and their generosity gave them a comfortable feeling. As counsel for the widow Mrs. Hardluck, whose hus- band had been killed while getting off a trolley, the lawyer had just. settled out of court with the greedy compan: for a thousand dollars rather than risk the poor woman's interests in a suit. Of this sum he generously gave her half, after telling her that it was char- ity, since the cost of the case covered the whole of the amount. Strangely enotigh, the doctor had just received a check from the nerve specialist as a token of professional appreciation for be easier in mind spending their money than doing nothing. As the congregation left the church it was happy in the possession of a preacher of such prophetic utterance that he did not shrink from condemn- ing sinners in the highest places. And the preacher was happy, for Mrs. Muchcash, whose husband was a di- rector in an honest corporation, had in- vited him and his wife and children JUNE AINSLEE’S “THE MAGAZINE THAT ENTERTAINS”’ There is to be a greater variety of fiction in the June number of AINSLEE'’S than the magazine has contained for some time, and much greater than any other periodical has ever published. Buy it and read it and then judge for yourself. Meantime here are a few of the items of tke table of contents: EMILY POST interested you. to spend the summer in her cottage in the Catskills. John Archibald MacCallum, Waterproof OTHER: In all that wild storm your sister Maggie went out with her throat all bare and exposed. Brotiter: Rain won't hurt her. She's got a rubber neck. LEONARD MERRICK is the author of the complete novel, “THE WHOLE QUESTION,” which is one of his very best. concludes her three-part story, “THE EAGLE'S FEATHER.” As far as it has gone it must surely have HAROLD MacGRATH also concludes his novel, “A SPLENDID HAZARD,” and as to this story, we leave you and your friends to praise the patients he had passed on, though it. You have been doing so since it began. he knew nothing could be done for them. But poor mortals! they would Betides these: three sovele there: will be $5, 94, $3.50, $3 & $2.50 detective, society, bridge, and, of course, love. lot SHOES $5.52.508 $2 Joseph C. Lincoln, Elia W. Peattie, Owen Oliver, shoes are worn by Samuel Gordon, Ian Hay, Martha McCulloch more men than Williams, Mrs. W. K. Clifford, F. Berkeley Smith, pee other make, Jane W. Guthrie, Alice Prescott Smith, Eleanor AUSEs H. Porter and Adele Leuhrman are the authors of a particularly brilliant lot of short stories, W. 1. Donglas $5.00 and $4.00 shoes equal, in style, fit and wear, other ‘makes costing 86.00 to $8.00. W. L. Douglas 83, 93.82.50and4 Eathocanre 15c. PER COPY $1.80 PER YEAR eWorld. ‘ AINSLEE MAGAZINE COMPANY, NEW YORK wrest considered, in the wor! Fast Color Eyelets. S ‘The gennine have W, L. Douglas name and stampedon the hottom, “Take Ne Subscitat Ask your dealer for W. L. Douglas shoes, ry delivered to the wearer charges prepaid, W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Sass. comicbooks.com