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Life — March 2, 1911 — page 39: Life, 1911-03-02

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This page is primarily **advertisements** with one reader letter, not political satire. The **White Rock ad** (top left) shows a silhouette of a woman drinking from a bottle, advertising spring water from Waukesha, Wisconsin—a straightforward product pitch with no satirical content. The reader's letter ("From Our Reader") expresses genuine praise for *Life* magazine's investigative journalism against corruption, then asks why Kansas City wasn't featured in a recent "Valentine Number" time table. This is authentic reader feedback, not satire. The remaining content—ads for screen cloth, car lamps, and perfume—are commercial advertisements with no political or social commentary. **Bottom text fragment** references Philadelphia, Denver, and New Orleans residents' characteristics in what appears to be a separate article (continued on page 460), but is incomplete here. This page contains **no cartoons or identifiable satirical targets**.

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From” America’s Most Famous Spring— Waukesha, till You investigate this Ask your architect about Pompeiian or Golden Bronze Screen Cloth. He will tell you it is the most economical barrier against flies and mosquitoes because it never has to be repiaced. It lasts as long as your house. He will tell you this screen cloth is 90 per cent pure copper.» It cannot crack or rust even when left out doors all the year round. For copper is practically indestructible. He will tell you, too, that you never have to bother to paint this enduring screen c:oth. No meshes become choked through successive paintings. It does not cast a shadow like dark painted wire cloth. All sunlight and air are admitted through its copper meshes. Even at a distance of 20 feet this screen cloth becomes invisible. Your architect will tell you all these facts about Pompeiian and Golden Bronze Screen Cloth. Let him specify it for your new house. And you home owners with rusty, cracked screen cloth, be prepared against the first inrush of flies. ee “The World's Best Table Water’’ In NEW Sterilized Bottles only To tur Eprtor of Lire: I have been a reader of Lire for years and have come to regard it as the most fearless champion of the peo- ple in their struggle against corrup- tion, imposition and the thousand and one shams that beset us. I have also Tell your carpenter to refit the old screen frames with this new wirecloth. A removable ‘red string” along the selvage marks every foot of it, distin- guishing this enduring screen cloth from copper- coated imitations. If your dealer isn’t supplied write us for the name of the nearest one who is. Your inquiry brings booklet on the comforts of screen cloth — outdoor dining and sleeping rooms, balconies, ete., ete. come to regard its keenness of percep- tion as of an order bordering on in- spired intuition, and am therefore im- pelled to ask why Kansas City, my home town, is missing from “ Lire’s Time Table” in the Valentine Num- ber? I, too, have “sneaked away, as if guilty of a crime,” upon inquiring too soon of my newsdealer for “this week's Lire,” and I now ask why Clinton Wire Cloth Co. 49 Sterling St., Clinton, Mass, ax) The Lamp for Cars That Tour Philadelphians, to whom time is as Solarclipse—the quality motor lamp m —has two distinct fields of light. A long. penetrating beam for coun- try roads, and short diffused rays for cities and towns, where searchlight rays are prohibited. The short rays, being widely spread, practically allow the driver to see ‘round a corner. The long beam shuts off and turns on from the driver's seat, and doing this does not alter the short rays. Sce them on any high-grade car. Write for the catalog. We make Solar Lamps for all known motor needs. naught; Denverites, to whom nothing is of virtue except the Rocky Moun- tains in their own immediate vicinity, or the residents of New Orleans, or the far Western towns named in the time table, who really have no distinguishing mental characteristics, (Continued on page 460) Kenosha, Wis. BADGER BRASS MFG. CO. Solarclipse New York City Perfumes and H b t P Ss f High The Solarclipse comicbooks.com