Life, 1910-11-03 · page 6 of 72
Life — November 3, 1910 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising, not political satire**. The main content features ads for consumer products typical of the early 20th century: - **Mennen's Borated Skin Soap** (left): A toiletry advertisement emphasizing the product fulfills all soap requirements - **Hunyadi Janos Natural Laxative Water** (top right): A patent medicine ad promoting constipation relief - **Jones Dairy Farm Sausages** (bottom right): A food product advertisement The center article, "Taxing the Cooked Beefsteak," *does* contain satire—it humorously details the various tariff taxes applied to different components of a prepared steak under contemporary tariff law, mocking the complexity and apparent absurdity of the tax system. However, this is the page's only satirical content; the remainder is straightforward commercial advertising.
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Mennen’s (Borated) Skin Soap fulfills every Toilet Soap requirement Hunyadi Janos Recommended by Physicians Refuse Substitutes Best remedy for CONSTIPATION Atall Drugeists. cent., and the onion pickles also 4o pzr cent.; the apple sauce, 35 per cent. and in addition 1 penny a pound. The butcher who sold the steak hes his share of tariff tax to bear. He has carved the steak from a quarter of beef with a knife taxed 4o per cent. His butcher's cleaver has been tariff- taxed, perhaps more, but by the law never less than 40 per cent. The wooden chopping block on which it was trimmed is tariff-taxed 35 per cent. It is weighed on scales tariff-taxed 45 per cent. It is wrapped up to be delivered in paper tariff. ed 35 per cent What a splendid affair this Payne Tariff Tax law is!—C. J. Post in New York World. At all dealers, or mailed on receipt of 25c. post- paid. Sample cake for 4 cents in stamps. Gerhard Mennen Company, Newark, N. J. Makers of the Celebrated Mennen’s Borated Talcum Toilet Powder Taxing the Cooked Beefsteak A beefsteak raw is tariff-taxed 114 cents a pound, poultry 5 cents a pound and chops or cutlets 10 per cent. The steak is cooked on a broiler tar- iff-taxed 4o per cent., or in a frying- pan (a barbarous method of the back- woods), and the frying-pan is taxed 40 per cent. You test the steak with a fork tar- iff-taxed on a varying scale, but by the Tariff law it must never be less than 40 per cent. Forks, 40 per cent. or more. You trim it with a knife that may pay more but must never pay less than 4v per cen. It rests in state on a platter tariff- taxed 55 per cent. The stove it has just left is tariff- taxed 45 per cent. The dab of melted butter is tariff- taxed 6 cents a pound. Even the pepper is taxed 1-5 of a penny an ounce, The Worcestershire sauce is tariff- taxed 40 per cent. The prepared mustard, 5-8 of a penny an ounce. The celery salt, 40 per cent.; ordi- nary salt, 1-10 of a penny a pound. If there is a small bit of cheese it is taxed at 6 cents a pound. F The pickles are tariff-taxed go per 734 = SSS : “THE FARM The true farm flavor lurks in these sausages, be- cause they are really made on a farm from a farm recipe. Write for our Free Booklet on farm cooking ‘recipes. We are careful of our reputation for making the best sausages in the world. That's why we never use anything bet home ground spices, pure salt, and the choicest portions of little, milk-fed pigs. Get them from your grocer, Ifhe hasn'ttbem write us; we'll sce that you are supp MILO C. JONES Jones Dairy Fara P. O. Box624, Ft. Atkiosoo, Wis, comicbooks.com