Life, 1910-07-28 · page 33 of 40
Life — July 28, 1910 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains primarily **advertisements and book reviews**, not political cartoons. The main content includes: 1. **Frank B. Howard ad**: A postcard service offering to print photographs of country homes. 2. **"Rhymed Reviews"**: A poem by Arthur Guiterman reviewing a book called *The Voice in the Rice* (published by Dodd, Mead & Co.). The review describes a story set in the Carolinas involving a villainous character named Lord Nairn who rules a swampy region, with references to slaves and danger. Guiterman praises the book as good summer reading, noting the illustrations by Lyendecker (a famous illustrator). 3. **Bridgeport Fasteners ad**: Industrial fastening products. 4. **Fisk Rubber Company ad**: A full-page advertisement claiming that Fisk Quality Tires are used on 75% of municipal emergency vehicles (fire apparatus, police wagons, ambulances) because they prioritize safety and performance over cost. There is **no political satire or social commentary** on this page—it's a standard magazine page mixing editorial and advertising content.
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ond Us a Photograph of Your y id we will d you S00 | ountry Home pict Fh er oe the picture for $6.85. Sample card on request. FRANK B. HOWARD is7 Main Street, eal Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Rhymed Reviews The Voice in the Rice erneur Morris. Dodd, Mead & Co.) é red Zendas crowd the chart, Betwixt the Baltic Sea and China, Yet here’s a new one, set apart Among the swamps of Carolina, Where planters, strictly up-to-date In cultured w by laws baronial Have ruled an oligarchic state With hordes of slaves, from days colonial. Their waterways of tangled ins And outs, delude the prying raider; And swarms of deadly moccasins Are keen to bite the rash invader. Lord Nairn is chief of all the clan That holds this swampy cuckoo- skyland, A monstrous-hugeous-wicked man, Like Honest John in “Treasure Island.” ARTICLES | for these and many ___| Fasteners wat tan eracere “BRIDGEPORT” R cket Watch Guard mailed for - 25¢. 5. otlet giving full information with prices, FREE, EUGENE H. FERREE, 61 Market St. Lockport, N.Y. “A Splendid Acknowledgment of Fisk Superiority” TI HEN the pleasure of the consumer and the profit of the maker or dealer are the main considerations, men who invariably use good judgment in other matters buy and pay high prices for inferior tire equipment. HEN speed and safety mean the saving of human life and property, the purchaser is apt to stop, and think, and buy the best. ISK Quality Tires and the Fisk Removable Rim are the pneumatic equipment on 75% of the motor fire ap-’ paratus, police patrol wagons, ambulances and other vehicles used for strenuous municipal work in this country to-day, where the element of pleasure is merged in the business-like meeting of most abnormal and exacting conditions. "THERE could be no more splendid tribute to Fisk Quality than this voluntary selection for work in which the truth of every claim we have ever made is so vitally at stake. Booklets full of straightforward facts about Fisk Quality Tires and the Fisk Removable Rim will be mailed on request. THE Fisk RusBER Company DEPT. S, CHICOPEE FALLS, MASS. And when our hero, cast ashore Without a stitch among the rubble, Contrives to cross this Blunderbore, Be sure there’s lots of room for trouble— And that's enough for you to know, Excepting this: The tale’s a hummer Without a single page that’s slow; A proper book to read in summer. When no one bothers how absurd A yarn may be, unless it preaches. Besides, the villain is a bird; He lives, it seems, on snakes and peaches, And, oh, the pictures! I like best The lovely lady “ dressed for tennis,” For Lyendecker shows her dressed, To take a horseback ride in Venice. Arthur Guiterman.