Life, 1910-09-15 · page 5 of 40
Life — September 15, 1910 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** for three products: Cortez Cigars, W.L. Douglas Shoes, and Hawes von Gal Hats. The only editorial content is a small section titled "The Literary Zoo" (continued from page 219), which appears to be a humorous column about literary figures and wordplay. The OCR text is largely illegible, but references Spanish words, translations, and folk stories, suggesting satire of literary pretension or obscure cultural references. The cartoon illustration accompanying the text shows two men in period dress, but without clearer context from the garbled OCR, I cannot definitively identify them or explain the specific satirical point. The column seems aimed at educated readers who'd recognize literary allusions, but the exact target of the satire remains unclear from this image alone.
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YOR g MEN OF BRAINS IGARS “MADE AT KEY WEST The smartest styles for a Fall wear, both in soft and The Literary Zoo aved:jromipone'axsi stiff hats, are to be found in servants.’’ What human fore- sight can foretell it?) Mr. Lummis, in ; ashion, has answered that que tion; yet some persons insist that he is erratic. 5 p Meanwhile there are only twenty-two Z le hundred tons of masonry in that house, with cighteen hundred tons still to be pat in place. A sizable job for one man, But remember that Charles F. is is only fifty-one. Remember, California climate. Manana flor de sus avcres. To-morrow shall be the ; 3 flower of all its yesterdays. An excel- If it is a question of quality— lent motto. Carpe diem, said the Ro- e mans—Do it now. Yet Rome was not ] built in a day. Manana, say the Mexi- ‘ fawes. von (Gal Hat Ge the cans, who mean well, Indeed, we had ; > come to consider manana as a sort of logical purchase. If style, ap- Southwest synonym for February 30. : Behold it rehabilitated by the Yankee hommnis—-born as IChappenis, very. early | fs finish count with you—then your on March 1. ‘Thus manana, safely de- ; livered from the womb of time, really i new hat will surely be a Hawes, cans to-morrow, and not the year after next. So poco tiempo—meaning no longer pretty soon, but right away—Mr. y hat is fully guaranteed. Lummis will seize his pen in order to F y supply his trowel : of value for the money—then a pearance, fit, workmanship and von Gal. And remember, every lish verse translation, y Prices, $3, $4 and $5 from p “{ rds, of old California American sot harmonized by Farwell and retaining the Spanish words as Si pneNePa) PebAR. 60 C ; ig We are Celebrated f verse, sume of which appeared as ~S) Makers of the $3.00 Hat Lin thirty-two. cantos, on the R : {New Mexico in 1508. ce If not at your dealer's, brite for our new Fall and Winter tory of @ magical. bronco. bust: Style Book “T." We will fill your order direct from the SPO HEAPS AEDS ABC HS ROEY % . factory if you Will indicate style wanted and gibe your Certain revisions, reprintings and i hat size, your height, weight and waist measure, Add of the romance, of i 1s fh 25 cents 10 cover cost of expressage. land of the ories,”” ete. t T edition of Benavides. . ic gentleman who was doing things 1 . Mexico long hefore the Pilgrims sighted uth Rock," Benavides wrote a wonder: : ol history of New Mexico, but he had no res and was not known east of the n INCORPORATED 1178 Broadway, New York Factories: Wholesale Offices: DANBURY, Connecticut Chicago Boston . L. DOUGLAS “Mnocess” SHOES FEN’S $2.00, $2.50, $3.00, £3.50, $4.00 & $5.00 — f : _ OMEN'S £2.50, $3, $3.50, $4.00 So, you see, after all, it will be a & cow-bell. And when the fish of San DYS' YS! 2.00, $2.50 and £3.00 house built with books—a hundred tomes, Pedro harbor come to call by way of the — STANDARD F let us say, to every ton of masonry back porch, they really do ring that bell FOR ey are absolutele ie? most When Mr. Lummis is not otherwise en- W.TLL pular best shoes for the |} gaged he is riding eight horses bareback pein America. They are the {J —in relays, to he sure. Sometimes. the held try Where “because musicians gather, and guitars give forth {Wold theirshape, fit better, Fil ik eo ee better and wear longer the beautiful old Spanish songs. Some ily the mages They are cer- times he gets down to the San Pedro economical shoes ong the fishermen, and throws ou (0 bus Wels Dongtan seme’ harbor, am ng the Esher a4 aad thra ms ctail price are stamped on the bottom out a hand-line off the back porch while aranteed, Fast Color Eyelet dictating. Each hand-line is fastened No alee SUBSTITUTE! If your dealer over the notch-stick set on an old bed- x iS Spark Se. Deen te spring, and at the bottom of the stick is