Life, 1910-09-01 · page 7 of 48
Life — September 1, 1910 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire. The dominant content is a Goodrich Tires advertisement claiming superiority based on public testing records—seven-year records in Gidden Tours, ten-year records in cross-country contests, and "eleventh year" service records. The left column contains a reader's letter addressing Eastern publishers' alleged unfair coverage of Alaska resources, and an advertisement for the "National Sportsman" magazine featuring a hunting knife. There is **no political cartoon** on this page. The tire advertisement uses a speedometer illustration as visual metaphor (tires' "history of endurance is recorded on thousands of speedometers"), but this is commercial art, not satire or commentary. The page reflects early-20th-century advertising strategy: establishing product credibility through claimed performance data and public validation.
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Fong MEN GG ARS -MADE AT KEY _WEST— From Our Readers Continued from page 334) An Alaskan View Lire Pepuistine Company. CwiTt ar sar Sirs:—\We notice that you LaNtKG nt 3 publishers will not publish any icle in favor of Ballinger, ention to any of the points, gained by the defense. ¢ in your New York sink you know more of the than those here on the ou ¢ been unfair, un- the Ballinger-Pinchot case. ill for “conserving” these ul fields. Your run-down r takes Hampton's Mag- Js about the trillions of wealth in Alaska. He fig- wo people there are ates and that his share 000, and he wants it. Brooks says about these f noticed. He does not know as bout it as some maga- tine write > has never been in 10! for he does not think you all want him to. nheims had succeeded lf interest in the Cun- ns they would have had ugust 4 | inson says The history of tire endurance is recorded on thousands of speedomeiers. The figares cannot lie:—no other product iS so severely—and publicly—tested as: the automobile tire. Hence you need not purchase blindly: by their record you may know which tires are best. GOODRICH TIRES have a seven year record for greater representation, greater durability and greater mileage in each and every Glidden Tour; a ten year record in other important, cross-country contests—and are in their eleventh year of best service to tire users everywhere. The B. F. Goodrich Company AKRON ~ ~~~ OHIO Largest in the World Branches in all the Principal Cities _ interest in (33) thirty- when there are from SPORTSMAN 3 164 pages crammed full of pictures of fish and game Special Si. On receipt of 2Se in stamps x ALL Yor" . Don't detay—Send TODAY 1 Dortsman, Inc., 9$ Federal Street, Boston, Mass, five hundred to seven hundred claims in this field alone. Then there is left the whole of the Matanuska and thou- sands of acres of coal yet held by the Government. Yet you, Hampton's, McClure’s and that unspeakable Col- lier’s, publish how the Guggenheims are grabbing all Alaska coal. Not one thing has been proven to show that Ballinger was “crooked,” and that he has not the confidence of the “ people” 335 is because of the magazine articles, and not by his own actions, I know absolutely of three conservative arti- cles written by engineers who knew— (not coal claimants)—two of them Government men, and sent to Hamp- ton’s, Collier’s and McClure, and not one was published. Mr. Connelly, of Collier's, interviewed all coal claimants in Seattle, and then did not publish a single fact given by them to him, ex- (Continued on page 337) comicbooks.com