Life, 1910-09-08 · page 6 of 40
Life — September 8, 1910 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Main Advertisement:** The large advertisement for *Metropolitan Magazine* (15 cents) promotes an article by Hughey Jennings of the Detroit Tigers predicting the American League pennant winner. This reflects early 20th-century sports journalism's celebrity prognostication trends. **Left Column Advertisement:** A "Fatoff" obesity cream advertisement promises to reduce fat and wrinkles through applications, reflecting era-specific beauty standards and dubious medical claims. **"From Our Readers" Section:** Letters address local concerns: automobile labor unemployment, and criticism of *Frisco* (a previous article), with one writer defending the marginalized working poor of the East against implied urban corruption. The page demonstrates *Life's* mix of satire, advertising, and reader commentary typical of early American periodicals.
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LIFE: FATOFF THE_KING OF OBESITY CREAMS No Oils No Grease No Odor Cool and Cleunly Will restore your normal figure in treatments, or reduce to desired size in 60 treat- ments, Reduces wherever applied, leaves flesh firm, smooth, un- wrinkled. Clean, cool and pleasant external applications, or may be used in hot bath. Appointments for ex- pert treatment at ire home may be made by phone or letter. Literature (watied f ., pet) will in laatau From Our Readers (Continued from page 381) leave us to buy the automobiles, we shall have unemployed labor, strikes and Morawetz TON HAut Nortueast Harnor, Me A Plea For ‘Frisco Evitors Lire Puntisnixc Company, Gentleme Several days ago I hap- pened to pick up an old copy of your weekly—of which I am a frequent and admiring reader—and came upon some remarks concerning “'Frisco” which were not agreeable to me. The article was evidently prompted by the fact that the Jeffries-Johnson fight was expected to be staged here. It was a punch-like article and certainly gave this city a black eye. Its spirit was an emulation of the very game you condemn Poor old ‘Frisco! Ever since the days of gold it has been ered and knocked by the virtuous t, and with how much injustice only we whose lots are cast here know. For the very land from which the finger of scorn is pointed is responsible for most of the degradation of which the cown is guilty—it is the scapegoat of the East, to a large extent You are fair-minded, I know, and if you lived here for a while you would soon acknowledge that, in the majority, the regular citizens here are people working and struggling toward the same ideals as their brothers and sis- ters of the East—people who believe that work and virtue are the surest means to happiness. Also you would at the same time discover that another distinct class is also here, known a , that in the majority these are rners, and that they are com- pried largely of prodigal sons and daughters who have come to country where they can give free ri to their desires with no fear of de- tection, When they have had enone of husks for a while, they retum ts their own country and tell what wicked city is that by the Golden ¢: Evil attracts evil, and thi knocking — encoura stream of -evil L our port. The rich m: seeks a field in which oats” with anu makes San Francisco (Continued on peg RU A FAN If you first read the sporting page of your morning paper for the box scores and then turn to such tri- fling incidents as the President’s message and the latest war rumors, you will be elated to hear that Hughey Jennings of the Detroit Tigers tells who will win the Pennant in the American League and gives his reasons in the September METROPOLITAN MAGAZI Just Out Any Newsstand 15 Cents