Life, 1910-10-06 · page 46 of 60
Life — October 6, 1910 — page 46: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising with supplementary humor content**. The dominant feature is a large Pabst Extract advertisement claiming medicinal benefits—it promises to cure exhaustion, insomnia, and weak digestion through a "predigested liquid food" of barley malt and hops. The U.S. Government classified it as medicine, not alcohol (a legal distinction likely important for early 20th-century patent medicine marketing). The page also includes: - **Short humorous anecdotes** ("New Wrinkles," "Taken at His Word," "Train Passages") typical of Life's satirical content - A **Milo Egyptian Cigarette ad** touting "quality" Modern readers should note: These ads represent the era before FDA regulations when such tonics made unsubstantiated health claims, and patent medicines were largely unregulated. The Pabst Extract's emphasis on government classification reflects contemporary marketing tactics exploiting regulatory ambiguity around alcohol content and medicinal claims.
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