Life, 1910-12-29 · page 3 of 41
Life — December 29, 1910 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising content**, not satire or political commentary. The dominant feature is a large advertisement for Stewart Straight Rye whiskey (eight years old), showing three well-dressed figures in what appears to be a social setting. The accompanying smaller ad promotes Cordial Fronsac liqueur by Cowie & Co., Ltd. On the left, "The Bank" appears to be descriptive prose about banking operations—not a cartoon. It reads as editorial or feature content describing the physical layout and atmosphere of a bank, including details about money, checks, and financial instruments. There is **no identifiable political cartoon or satire** on this page. The content reflects early 20th-century American magazine advertising and reflects the pre-Prohibition era's open promotion of alcohol.
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Office: Opposite Savoy Hotel. Part staged to ten persons, Sailing Jan. 7, 21. Feb. 18. Private ides and Carriages provided for Hoch family. Special fae Tites gf teed io private amities for Indes Sedeat travel onthe Rates. booklet on request. TANET'S TOURS COMPANY, 50 Fifth Avenue, New York The Bank High glass partitions, facing all ways, behind which solemn men write in dingy silence An open space, with long, low railings of mahogany, or black walnut, garrisoned hy imposin: en in somber clothes. A subtle sense of power everywhere— power that has translated the atmosphere into an awe-inspiring fluid, and creeps into every nook and cran Money—all kinds. Moncy in heaps of banknotes—tens of it, twenties of it, hun dreds of it. Money in paper rolls and in piles of careless silver that lie waiting to be sent off to the ends of the earth. Gold. Gold in bags, tied with heavy twine. Loose gold, yellow and clinky. Gold in tiny disks hidden away in a safe corner to give to little children for their birthday. Yellowboys of five and ten, and golden eagles in great groups on in- ner tables Paper. Checks of all colors—grcen. blue, black, yellow—eash checks and order checks, Little impertinent checks, strutting to the front with blatant typo- graphical faces; large, unobtrusive-look- ing checks, heavy with power, seeming to be all signature. Drafts being thrust in at windows. Notes being signed. . Se curities, with a deep sea-grcen look about them, being passed along the counters snd checked up. Soiled bonds, recking with authority, jording it over shame- faced promissory notes ; bills of exchange jostling shabby leases. Outside of the partitions people are being dealt with. Lines of them stand in front of tellers’ windows. Single parties whisper things to loan clerks CORDIAL FRONSAG Adds the finishing touch to any dinner. Exquisite Flavor. Old and Mellow. At All Best Clubs and Hotels Cowie & Co., Ltd. NEW YORK Sole Agents for the U. S. @ Puraverenia EWART STRAIGHT RYE Ercut YEARS OLD EN in ShOse judgunent one places absolute reliance serve Stewart Straight Rye in their homes. It’s not a ‘‘cheap”’ whiskey by any means. It is a pure whiskey. At every stage of preparation, from grain to bottle, Dr. Francis Wyatt, of New York—the foremost fer- mentation chemist in America—analyzes and passes upon Stewart Rye. It is aged in the wood eight years. It.is bottled at the distillery. It is smooth. It is mellow. It is the most palatable whiskey you ever poured into a glass. It is sold by progressive dealers everywhere. If you are so located that there is any difficulty in buying through a local dealer, write us. We will see that you are supplied. STEWART DISTILLING CO. a consolidation of CARSTAIRS, McCALL & CO. AND CARSTAIRS BROS. NEW YORK BALTIMORE risk people, heavy people. tired people. checks, hurried customers shifting their worried people,—women of affairs and without any; stylish ladies and la with pasts; angular old maids and push- ing business ladies. Bank clerks, mes- senger boys, clearing-house agents, de- tectives and customers; customers with bulging pass-books, filled with the pro- ceeds of the morning mail; timid cus- tomers gingerly fingering diminutive fcet impatiently, customers with bags for the week's pay-roll Greeds. Little lively greeds jumping in among the greenbacks; big, insensate greeds, sitting disconsolately on pillars looking down on-bags of gold; staid old greeds and baby greeds playing with the thought of what may be theirs some day. Some Jay! Who knows?—Success. comicbooks.com