Life, 1910-08-04 · page 7 of 44
Life — August 4, 1910 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political satire. The main elements are: 1. **Savage Automatic rifle advertisement** - promoting a self-defense weapon for home protection, with text suggesting it's for protecting wives, mothers, and sisters from home invasion or assault. 2. **"Moral Guardians and the Fight Pictures"** - an editorial discussing Moral Guardian William Hearst's opposition to fight picture exhibitions in New York, debating censorship and public morality. 3. **Investment and tire advertisements** - standard commercial messaging. The Hearst editorial represents early 20th-century debates over **censorship, morality, and what entertainment the public should access**—reflecting tensions between moral reformers and commercial interests that characterized the Progressive Era.
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FOR g MEN OF BRAINS IGARS | Van Si ife, he egg shell } secre omar. and find a burglar in her room. What would she do? Si she were left alone, and a tramp, or a drunk or vicious person should come to the house and attack her. - What could she do by way of resistance ? Nothing. Absolutely nothing! © She would be helgless as a child. @ Get her the new “human arsenal” — the Savage Automatic. We all it a pistol, but, in reality, it should be called a “human protector —a human protector in the condensed form of pocket arm. It converts your home from a defenseless egg shell of a place, into an arsenal. It con- verts your wife, mother or sister into an arsenal. It actually makes her able to put up a crack shot’s defense, for any novice can aim it as expertly s any Nira ao is the quickest pocket erebierd bulges a the st (vital) sI lease us the name of the retailer from whom you buy firearms, and we'll have him show you the new Savage FAMOUS SAVAGE RIFLES Automatic quick. " Do it today, and take your wife, mother and sister out 4, Ask rege dealer, jo show you of their defenseless egg shell and put them into an impregnable arsenal. Bate ile, 1909 wore Pree, 3 QThe new Savage Automatic loads ten .32 cal. shots at a time. — §10,00.. Dro iaduy fe le the Shoots one at a time, as fast as you press the trigger. You can’t realize 888 Savage Avenue, Utica, N. sehat this rapid fe, gum i unl you read * Bat” Masterton's book,” The seven Tenderfoot's Turn.” Sent free for your dealer's name on a post card. THE NEW GAVAGE AUTOMATIC INVESTMENT Moral Guardians and the Fight Pictures SE Cc U RITIE Ss Our friends, the moral guardians of York may have a bearing on Hearst's the great American public, are taking fervor. OBEY THAT IMPULSE the matter of the fight pictures just as Moral Guardian Brisbane is about hard as they take other things. Moral as strong against the fight pictures as mericak new Drone Guardian William Hearst is on deck Guardian Hearst, and in the Evening ¢ < with both fect about it, making very Journal cries out against them almost 7 " spirited remonstrances in the American as v as the American does. en snk and Trast andl a Clast against the exhibition of the fight pic- But in the same issue of the Journal . | tures in New York. The IVorld has he prints two of the pictures; prints can, Ama iq fomplete feces Gg Wespecialize stocks printed some of these pictures, and to them fine and large. It beats us how Lory, diatir caterers ote es us they don't look so very awful, but Brother Brisbane can roar in his edi- ai Trot Compasics || and “scbatental ches Moral Guardian Hearst sees in them torial page against the exhibition in ywhere in | acter, Our customers “an appalling power to disintegrate the show places of pictures which he cheer- may invest in moderate tissues of social life and destroy the fully reproduces in his own inside rat emauats. sed pay 18 sanctions of law.” Every single and pages, but the Moral Guardians are a The largest investment separate exhibition of them, he holds, funny lot, and have Emersonian views business of thischaracter “would tend to weaken the restraints about consistency. inthe world—over forty- of justice and to spread abroad the are two comprehensive objec- five thousand discrimie i i i ¢ blind ices, || natieg customers, feeling that the biggest brute is the tions to the exhibition of the fight pic- lenttals “best man.’" And this, Brother Hearst tures; that they make prize fighting paella NR 0% png (ih he Ks feels to be not merely immoral, but too profitable and that (in some the sum of immoralities. places) they breed quarrels between STERLING DEBENTURE CORPORATION We have never before appreciated blacks and whites. But for our part UNSWICK RUILDING the sensitiveness of Moral Guardian we are astonished at the eagerness to 2 sey YORE Hearst’s moral nature. It seems to be suppress them. They really do not raw to the touch. The fact that Mayor seem worthy of so much enthusiasm. Gaynor does not at this writing find They hit a time of hot weather and a ; He Had Reason himself authorized by law to prohibit scarcity of ne perhaps ihat had In illustrating a point he wished to the pictures from showing in New something to do with it. make at a political gathering in the bee a noted politician told of an epi- — — —— = = = — @ph which an Indiana man had caused : : tbe inserted upon the monument of — |Sterling Tires are only as good as the best, but his wife, who had died after a somewhat tenpesoes married tite. This exend Sterling Blue Tubes have no equal. ‘There are Tead: “Here lies a wife. Tears cannot mechanical as well as chemical reasons for this superiority, which is apparent to the bring her back. Therefore her husband naked eye. Somewhat higher in price than most other tubes, but much cheaper ‘weeps.""—Harper’s Magazine. per mile. Dealers everywhere. Booklet. Sterling Rubber Works, Rutherford, N.J. 175 comicbooks.com