Life, 1910-08-04 · page 2 of 44
Life — August 4, 1910 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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This page contains **advertisements rather than satirical cartoons**. The content includes: 1. **White Rose Glycerine Soap** ad featuring a classical cherub/baby image with decorative rose borders—typical early 20th-century beauty product marketing emphasizing "healthy and beautiful skin." 2. **Philip Morris Cigarettes** ad with five illustrated male faces and the tagline "On every lip—anywhere men gather." This reflects period advertising that normalized smoking and associated cigarettes with masculine social gathering. 3. **Steinway Piano** and **Kewanee Water Supply System** ads promoting luxury goods and home utilities. The page represents early 20th-century consumer culture advertising rather than political satire. The cigarette ad is notable today for its brazen health claims and gender-targeted marketing that would be prohibited in modern advertising.
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Published every Thursday, Anneal Subscription Five Dolars. Single Copies. Ten Cents. jealthy and Be: ed to all w Upright Piano of “Grand” Value VERTEGRAND Itwas the house of Steinway that evolved the principles which toy mean so much in all piano making. It has been the uninterrujd endeavor of four Steinway generations that has created and mi. tained the reputation of the Steinwayas the standard piano of thew The Steinway Vertegrand is well described as the Upright Pixs of “Grand” Value. At $550, ebonized case, it is at once a instrument of unusual worth and easy acquisiticn. Mtustrated Catalogue will be sent upon request and mention of this magazine, STEINWAY & SONS, STEINWAY HALL, 107 and 109 East Fourteenth Street, New York. Subway Express Station at the Door. oo Philip Morris one Cisarettes On every lip— anywhere men gather Aeilterdiener sce OC See 20 “The Little Brown Box’ FN! SYSTEM OF E WATER SUPPLY{ Water for Your Country Home No matter how far you live from the city, you can have all the sanitary conveniences of the best city water works system —an abundance of water, under strong pressure, for your bathroom, kitchen, laundry, lawn, garden—anywhere. Good fire protection too. ‘This splendid water supply service assured, if you install the Kewanee System of Water Suppl ‘The Kewance Tank {s located in the cellar or buried f ground and the water is delivered by air prs re. No eleve attic tank to leak, fi ‘The tank is ‘almost. indefinitely. ‘st line of pumping machinery—the of over ten years experimenting and practical experi Kewanee pumps are operated by hand, gasoline e' q motors, ete. Kewanee Systems are complete. |. Every plas i 10,000 Kewanee Systems | charge for ering servic catalog No.13, Kewanee Water Supply Co., Kewanee, 50 Church St., New Yea 1212 Marquette Bidgs 305 Diamond Bank 6 Pittsburg, Pa comicbooks.com