Life, 1910-07-07 · page 6 of 48
Life — July 7, 1910 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and reader letters**, not political satire. The main advertisement features **Lyon & Healy Piano**, emphasizing superior craftsmanship ("Pure in Tone"). The accompanying silhouette shows a man at the piano with a gridded window behind him—a stylized composition typical of 1920s commercial art. Below, "From Our Readers" contains a letter discussing coal mining and freight rates in Wyoming, apparently a response to earlier Life content. The writer describes labor disputes and economic hardship. Additional advertisements include the **Old Hampshire Bond** paper company and **Calox Tooth Powder**. The content reflects early 20th-century American commercial and industrial concerns rather than political commentary. Without additional context about what prompted the reader's letter, specific historical references remain unclear.
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Paintings of Celebrated Inns Prints that will add a dignified atmosphere to your Den, Dining Room or Billiard Room. Colonial Inns and Ale Houses of old Philadelphia. Painted by the foremost artist on such subjects, Twelve to the set—11 x14 inches each. $2.00 per set. Send 4 cents for mialature reproductions | and the history of each Tavern. r The Robert Smith Company, 25th & Poplar Sts., Philadelphia. broadly and widely and_ inclusively when I read your impression that “there might possibly be a little coal left over in Alaska if the Guggenheims were allowed to take what THEY NEEDED TO RUN THEIR RAILROAD. Oh, dear Lire, believe me, if you could only guess the sweet, sad, sorrow of those words of yours! And then came hopefully into our harried, unhappy country two men. One was Theodore Roosevelt., Guess who the other was? None other than your-good friend whom you like, but think too harsh—Norman Hapgood. In the trail of Roosevelt came law suits, special prosecutors, withdrawals of the undeveloped coal land from en- try, suits to recover that which had heen obtained fraudulently and crim- inal charges to break the deadlock of the Harriman-Gould cinch-hold upon our intermountain realm, In the trail of Hapgood came Con- HE cost of labor in the LYON & HEALY PIANO is double the cost in Holly and: Mark Sullivan and Robert J. a A r : Collier and Will Irwin and Sarah 3} an ordinary piano; the material costs 50% more than usual; the whole H ; Comstock—the whole Sam Collier piano, by its sterling character, perfectly represents the World’s Lar- family; if you will They tiened 1 gest Music House. It is PURE IN TONE. Prices $350, $375, $400 and the words of indignation poured in upward. Drop a postal today for the beautiful art catalog containing from a restless people, and in an edi- easel-back illustrations. You will then readily understand why this piano is the torial or two turned in a little light on unquestioned triumph of the present day; why it is first choice of so many shrewd a situation about which they knew voL- « buyers; why 180 piano dealers in all parts of the world secured the agency during UMES MORE THAN THEY WERE LETTING G the past year. Write today. LYON & HEALY, Dept. Z7265, CHICAGO. (7) | on 2 c — = —= —— Then came the days of Taft. First 4 li thing that happened was that he dis- i have imitated the name and have eadeavored to imicate the vrosecutors, He did it with a flourish i me (Continued from page $) quality of ontinues from page. | of trumpets and a statement that there- found our law wi ing and Har- after the regular district attogneys fl x n ALL THE would do the work, so that law should . th C nt of developing coal he glorified! TI shivered at that carly G ound the freight rate from W Taft act—shivered for my vote for Y ay, was ider him, for our country and for Taft, with the rate from whose action stirred immense surprise, : | chagrin and astonishment. It prepared me to expect anything. And anything tb (Continued ow page 7) ly and were commission 4 ly, having no more than a janitor’s | power in their own houses Then we got a coal famine in the dead of winter, there was a whis- It still remains the standard, ticular, % i er 6. We For business or men's social cor D HAMP- coal it was in 1906. e SHIRE BOND meets every requirement of the most exacting look: round and found that the Har- man. riman-Gould coal erests dovetail Let us send you the Otp Hasrsnine Hon Book of Bpect- i Fi printed. Ithoxraphed and engraved on tbe white and were identical and whipsawed the od tourtern colors of Lb Hawrenine Bont. ? PO country to a finish, and had driven fur ton your present letterhead. - a 2 i SS everybody off the map and were Hampshire Paper Company Depends for its virtues not upon strong oils, carbolic exercising famine-making powers suc: | South Hadley Falls, Mi CA eal irritating « ais ctaate but upon the presence as we had fancied were the vested in- The onty porer meters in the world mating || Of ‘x7gea (peroxide)—Nature’s purifier. 3 bond paper eictusteely. | Makers of Old Hamp ih your Dentist—he bmows terests of God alone. shire Bond, Th Slationsry of @ Gentleman.” a Droge! ate BE jen| oe Cotes wes end also Old Hompshire ‘ypewriter Sample and Booklet free on request. That roused some fighting spirit. In jompanire ; . ‘Nekwer Pe Bak CNT Ere McKESSON & ROBBINS - NEW YORK memory of jt I had to smile very eS 6 comicbooks.com