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Life — December 22, 1910 — page 33: Life, 1910-12-22

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This page is primarily **advertising and philosophical content**, not political satire. The dominant feature is a **Kelly Motor Truck advertisement** showcasing an early commercial vehicle. The ad presents testimonial evidence from actual business users (J.D. Frazier & Co., Atlanta) praising the truck's reliability, efficiency, and low operating costs compared to competitors. It emphasizes practical superiority: the Kelly truck allegedly performs work previously requiring multiple horses and drivers, with minimal repairs. The left column contains **"Thoughts of Balzac,"** philosophical quotations about virtue, government, and civilization—unrelated to the truck advertisement. Additional small ads appear for Evans Ale and Houbigant-Paris perfumes. There is **no political cartoon or satire** on this page. It represents straightforward early-20th-century industrial advertising aimed at business owners considering motorized transport, combined with literary filler typical of Life magazine's mixed content format.

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Are You Going Away for the Winter? No matter where or when youor friends of yours contemplate a trip this Winter, the Tours Department of the Chicago, Union Pacific and North Western Line solicits your correspondence in regard to it and suggests that you avail your- self of the unlimited services and as- sistance it is in position to render. S.A. Hutchison, Manager 212 Clark Street, Chicago, 11. Thoughts of Balzac Profundity comes from the reader's intelligence and not from the thought | Kelly(az)Motor Truc One virtue will efface many vices, one vice will efface many virtues. is working every day in direct comparison What we call a representative govern- . ment is a perpetual tempest, for the tH with several motor trucks of other makes. Read nority of the assembly never fails to z ; ‘ claim that it is the majority of the na- what the owners say in regard to its service: tion, and sooner or later the assertion : must be tested, and a mere circumstance is enough to justify the te: When the This letter was written to a prospective This is just a single, average circumstance arrives, there is revolution. purchaser of a motor truck: instance of the Kelly Motor This government is therefore always at J.D, Faazarr & Co., Atlanta, Ga, Truck’s superiority in actual, the mercy of circumstance. Now, the Gentlemen: We have before us your letter of Jan, 28th. everyday service, We have great essential of a government is fixity. We are operating several trucks, but only one of the Kelly letters of this character from That is what makes Austria so strong. make. It, however, is by a considerable margin better than _—representative firms in almost any truck we have ever had anything to do with. The blower every industry ; cooling system is very satisfactory, both Winter and’ Summer. * The finest revenge is the scorn of re- This truck has been in use about ‘a year and a half, without Consistency venge. repairs, except tires, and has given thorough satisfaction in Recently the Kelly Truck won It is doing the work with one operator, which was {ree great - moter, truck contests every way, Be perator, —at New York, Philadelphia and Excessive civilization is close to bar- formerly done by two driversand four horses. Oncof our drivers Boston—establishing a record for ra Pa iffict it Ve i it of vo of accent per inti as aietl te close te soning, A had no difficulty in learning to operate it. We have not had a operating cost of Yo of a cen 3 e bed yall moment's forgetfulness and the thing great deal of success with other trucks, but we can speak very American trucks, but all foreign hipped. highly of the Kelly. We think you would make no mistake in ¢ntries as well. buying this particular make. Write us for full particulars of 7 Kelly Motor Trucks and details as Tur Brosweet. Brest & Wine Goons Comaxy Ree eee ine cet ther (Signed) Tuos. G. Mexisu, Vice-President firms in your line of business, The Gift of Pleasure The Kelly Motor Truck Company, Springfield, Ohio Tyas you will, you cannot make a Christmas Gift that com- Seo the charm of novelty with that of pleasure and benefit like a barrel containing 10 dozen bottles of = = = = SS An idea at first appears obscure. then Every one who thinks strongly raises | it seems divine to certain minds, soon a scandal. the world sees everything in it, two cen- a turies later the nations are ready to die | for it. The rules of taste are eternal, they | — are the result of a permanent accord be- Pega) Geligitt Meieed <twe GaN acd tween the means and the end of man. set it in heaven, whereas Catholicism —From Balzac’s Note-Book. has set heaven above the earth. *A bottle of ale, and 3 . 2 Perfumes and nge he pee Pie Remorse is te vinwe of he wet — | HOUIgANt=Paris so=-Piiscs Quali ly. In Every Store Arethings this season doth require.” | i ‘*Y Deater or C, H. Evans & Sons, = Hudson, N. ¥. | Tt springs from fear 1165