Life, 1910-10-20 · page 40 of 44
Life — October 20, 1910 — page 40: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes advertisements with reader letters and editorial content typical of *Life* magazine's format. **Main Content:** The page features a **Correja automobile advertisement** emphasizing the car's hill-climbing ability and competitive pricing ($1,450 versus $3,500 for comparable models). It's straightforward product promotion. **Reader Letters Section:** "From Our Readers" includes complaints about: - A proposed statue in Statuary Hall (unclear who/what) - U.S. Customs Bureau treatment of returning Americans, criticizing their "rough, discourteous and vulgar methods" and invasive searches at New York **Other Advertisements:** Include Calox tooth powder, Cook's travel tours, and "Feltoid" furniture casters. The letters suggest contemporary tensions over government authority and courteous treatment of citizens, reflecting progressive-era concerns about bureaucratic power and dignity.
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CORREJA G The CORREJA has demonstrated its ability to climb hills by winning the five big hill-climbing events of the season of 1910. Q But hill-climbing is only one of the many strong points of the CORREJA. It has earned recognition among the foremost cars of its class in popularity because of its ability to make speed, its remarkable staying qualities and its rakish “different” appearance. It is the smartest runabout built. @ The CORREJA has a powerful 35 H.P. 4-cylinder motor, wheels 34 x 3% inches, selective type transmission, frame of pressed steel, metal body of novel gunboat type. Big. comfortable seats, protection from the wind, and plenty of luggage room. @ The CORREJA sells for $1,450. Compare it with cars of the same type selling up to $3,500, and let the result of your agree with all that Constant Reader said about putting his statue in Statu- ary Hall. It certainly has no right to a place there.. (Mrs.) May Doyte Saunoners. Cuattanooca, TENN., Sept. 26, 1910. We Cannot Answer Dear Lire: It may be a repetition of a familiar complaint, but nevertheless more per- tinent this year than ever before, to ask by what principle of virtue, hon- esty or servitude are returning repu- table Americans—not smugglers, as the Customs’ publicity bureau would have us believe—first sworn to this declarations and then insulted by sack and search. Why should the United States in its treatment of those who have to pass through its Customs at New York, outrival all other countries thelesome Know! comparison govern your choice. GUARANTEED FOR ONE YEAR IN A WAY THAT MEANS SOMETHING THE CORREJA MOTOR CAR CO. J. MORA BOYLE, Pres 1861 BROADWAY, NEW YORK Send for Catalogue G in its rough, discourteous and vulgar methods? According to the statement of its own officers the present methods ate mi of the Customs of the United States thing (Continued on page 681) ordin = = Aga — 5 THE iff lav appears to dominate. Sentiment is cast shoul to the winds. R | E N T A merch What is to become of you? Cook's Tours de Luxe fessio May the good Lord bless and keep to Feypt, the Moly Land. the Levant, counts . Series, Tete Guring, Jin eb.” and 5 you! Sincerely, Saba. Texttrely tal ia coast writer Boston Beacon. COOK’S NILE STEAMERS \ (if he sail from Cairo every i and n ? Second Cataract, a the ROUND THE WORLD teszzouncrsraien fi Os"? THOS. COOK & SON§ NEW YORK, BOSTON, —__ PHILADELPHIA, CHICAGO, SAN FRANCISCO, ETC. Cook’s Travellers’ Cheques Are Good All Over the World Put an End to Floor Destruction If you were to put a dozen different kinds of casters, including “FEL- = OID”, on as many pianos and then From Tennessee Lire Pustisuinc Company. Gentlemen: eing the daughter of the only surviving member of the Doyle family, who were massacred by John Brown in Kansas, I heartily It’s the Oxygen ‘alox ( Peroxide of Hydrogen) that renders it so efficient cleanser of the mouth and whitener of the teeth. Dentists advise its use. Physicians prescribe it, All Drugglets, 25 Cents, Sample and Booklet free on request. McKESSON & ROBBINS - NEW _YORK From Our Readers (Continued from page 679) second and Forty-seventh _ streets. Who controls these conditions, the have those pianos moved side by side public or the interests? over a hardwood floor, there would be I also note that the American is not as ‘ea My one trail you could not follow—the wholly extinct on Broadway, between “FELTOID.” They—not the floor— Fourteenth Street and the Battery. I receive the impact. counted three American names on that 66 FELTOID ” thoroughfare, between the points men- CASTERS and TIPS tioned. You are getting more Jewish than ever, and thank God I shall not be See that your next furniture is equipped with them — here to sce their complete domination ihe Fs ead He “chases You oothing ett te ee penta Rie upon having al on Manhattan twenty-five years hence! Ike fini ‘uses while leather hard The oot ae They make up your audiences, they away; vulcanized cotton and fibre are harder than the constitute the orchestra, people the floor, “FELTOID™ Casters and Tips never harden, never stage, and do the ushering. And those Festrved evctoatneved stain—and last as long as the female ushers are not exponents of urnmure: seer the courtesy that their sisters in Lon- Pes anvend to needless Boor dostruction:. Evi yous forsi- ture with the genuine “FELTOID.” No faith neces- don possess. sary—your money back if you want it. By the way, good manners is a lost Look for the name “FELTOID" art in your town. Grinding commer- stamped on every wheel and tip. ciality, so characteristic of the Jews, toe er eR CID eee he Dee ke ‘THE BURNS & BASSICK COMPANY, Bridseport, Coun. comicbooks.com