Life, 1910-06-02 · page 49 of 56
Life — June 2, 1910 — page 49: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains three main advertisements: 1. **Investment Securities** (left): Financial firms offering stocks and trust company investments—standard early 1900s banking ads. 2. **Goodrich Tires** (center/main): An extended advertisement arguing that tire quality matters as much as car quality. It emphasizes Goodrich's secret rubber-toughening process and ten-year service record, attempting to convince motorists that "tires are all about alike" is a false economy. This reflects early automobile-era competition over tire reliability. 3. **Allen's Foot-Ease** (bottom): An antiseptic powder advertisement claiming to cure corns, bunions, and foot pain—a common patent medicine pitch from this era. There is also a brief reader letter criticizing ticket scalpers at theaters, but it's editorial content, not satire. The page reflects 1910s consumer culture: nascent automobile anxiety, dubious medical claims, and financial investment pitches.
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NVESTMENT SECURITIES () new Sore nd Trust || and High-Class pa socks | Industrials Complete fects We specialize stocks Complete feces | of approved business ae of. Stocks in Banks || enterprises of a bri fed Trust Companies || and substantial char- Meaied anywhere in |} acter, Our. customers sited States. Our |) may invest in moderate erat Lists present || amounts and pay in escal opportunities |] convenient installments. lr investment in new || The largest investment lads ia growing towns || business of thischaracter lawell as in established |] inthe world—over forty- frdesd-paying banks. |) five thousand discrimi- Ve quote lowest prices. || nating customers. If you should select your tives first and your , car afterwards, you would not’ give andue attention ' tothe tire guestion. 2 You would compare the different tires as carefully as you compare motor cars. You would find that all Get SEEN sccttent” Wel Ske mal yee good tires are made of Para rubber and Sea Island nel DEBENTURE CORPORATION cotton, for these are not patented products.~ ~~ BUT, you would also discover that the manufacturers of BRUNSWICK BUILDING. UDISON SQUARE BS NEW YORK From Our Readers GOODRICH TIRES (Continued from page 1035) against the speculators, and had posted signs to that effect in front of the doors, and printed words to the same import on the hemsel Now, it so hap- pened spur r had defective d that he did not know that had any such rule. The peculator, however, did know it ld the tickets with full knowledge at he was putting the purchaser to the risk of losing his money and of incur- ring great displeasure for himself and ibe ladies accompanying him. In other xords, he perpetrated a deliberate and wicked swindle. Of course the» pur- chaser had no redress that was adequate inst the theatre or the speculator. inst the theatre he’ had no redress a all, because it had done him no wrong and was clearly within its rights in pre- tending to be against the sale.of tickets oa the sidewalk; against the speculator be had the right to sue for restitution of the money, ‘but could he find the speculator and could he collect the . empley a special process of toughening the rubber in order to make the Goodrich “White Tread” so won- derfully durable and that another secret process immensely increases the strength and “shock-resisting” power of the long fibre, cotton fabric. You would find that the service tires give is a matter of Record and that the Goodrich ten year record is convincing and conclusive. The more thoroughly you investigated tires,the less you would be willing to believe that “tires are all about alike” and that service is a matter of “luck”:- the most expensive fallacy ever indulged in by the motorist. The B. F. Goodrich Company AKRON ~--~-~-~ OHIO Largest in the World Branches in all the Principal Cities ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE money if he could get a judgment? Any effort to punish the offender criminally Shake _Into_ Your Shoes | would be doomed to failure because Allen's Foot = Ease, the antiseptic powder for the feet. It cures painful, swol- len, smarting, nervous fect, and instantly takes the sting out of cor It’s the greatest comfort discovery of the age. fitting or new shoes feel easy. TRY IT TO-DAY. Sold ev where, 25c. Do not accept any Substitute. Sent by mail for 25c. in stamps. Wa pin, TRIAL PACKACE sent by mail. mics FRE Hen 3 Tt isa certain relief for ingrowing na fect. It is always in demand for use Address, ALLEN S. OLMSTED, LE ROY, N. Y. there is not a person in authority who has ever shown a disposition to encour- age the visitation of the criminal law st these public malefactors. The law is unsettled, we are told. By direction of my client I made a thorough examination of the law, with a view of bringing some action to suppress bunio: Allen's Foot =Ease ‘Shoes. We have over 30,000 testimonials. (Continued on page 1039)