Life, 1911-03-02 · page 40 of 52
Life — March 2, 1911 — page 40: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and reader correspondence**, not political satire. The dominant content includes: **Main Advertisements:** - Atlas Motor Car Company promotes delivery wagons with two-cycle engines, emphasizing efficiency and low operating costs for business use - Old Town Canoe Company advertises recreational canoeing - Durham Duplex Razor promotes comfortable shaving - Black & White Scotch Whisky advertisement **Reader Correspondence:** A Kansas City reader complains that Life magazine has excluded Kansas City from recent coverage while featuring New York, Boston, and Chicago. The editor responds dismissively: "Our correspondent is too hasty. Give us time." **Social Context:** The only potentially satirical element is a letter titled "From a Believer" discussing women's suffrage—someone argues against men marrying suffragettes, calling such women "silly" and "thoughtless." This reflects anti-suffrage sentiment common in 1911, though the full context is cut off. The page primarily reflects early-20th-century consumer culture and period attitudes toward women's rights.
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Your Delivery Problems Solved Hy the Atlas Economy in Delivery by Motor Cars The longer it takes to deliver your goods, so, much more labor and time is consumed—that's overhead expensc— that's what eats up profits, The gasoline motor delivery wagon ie the Twenticth Century method of delivery—the means of cutting down overhead expense and increasing the percentage of profit You want a car which will require the minimum of ex- pense in operation—simplicity (to reduce repair bills), reliability (to insure constant dependable service)—a car that can be driven by some one less than a mechanic. That car is the perfected two-cycle Atlas Delivery Wagon. 20 H.P. Delivery Wagon, $2,000 List Price Carrying Capacity 1500 Pounds ATLAS TWO-CYCLE ENGINE The Atlas motot in the Atlas 1,800 tb, delivery wagon is adcycle 0 H.P. engine, [tis simplicity itself, The Atlas motor has only five (5) moving parts. Two pis! vo piston rods, and one crank shaft. Mark yu! No Valres: Just compare that to the four- cycle engines in other cars with sixteen moving parts toeach Sixteen in each cylinder—in four-cycle engines the whole Atlas engine. one of them big and strong and reliable—seldom, if ever, giving trouble—built to last. 60% to 75% More Power The Atlas engine in this delivery wagon will do more work. cylinder for cylinder, than any four-cycle engine of corresponding size In the Aths a powet Impulse is obtained from every stroke of the piston In a four-cycle engine a power im- pulse is obtained only every other piston stroke That's the difference between two-cycle and four-cycle construc- tion. That's why the Atlas will develop 60% to 75% more power than any four-cycle engine of equal size. The Atlas engine i non-adjustable, With its doubly fast impulses, vibration is reduced to a minimum, The Atlas will save you repair bills, high-priced skilled driver's salary, and the aggravation of interrupted service. It is the Solution of Your Delivery Problems THE ATLAS LINE FOR 1911 In cach of the following models the motor is the same, part for part, except in the number of cyli ders— 40 H.P. Touring Car, Torpedo... _.. + $2450 40 H.P. Touring Car, Tonneau or Fore door 2400 20 H.P. Torpedo Runabout ‘ ws + 1250 20 H.P. Delivery Wagon. .. . ... . .. 2000 20 H.P. Taxicab... . fee fe 2400 Send for our catalog ATLAS MOTOR CAR COMPANY 93 Birnie Ave., Springfield, Wass. ¥.¥. Office, 2010 Broad From Our Resles (Continued from page 459) should be considered to the exclusion of Kansas Citians, who are in the same class with the people of New York, Boston and Chicago? Please do something at once to atone for this glaring omission. Yours very truly Jou HH. Cranpate. Kansas City, Mo, February 2, 1911. Our correspondent is too hasty. Give us time. Evitor Make cancetsg trips your week end and every day recreation this year. Canoeing Is the most popular, healthful aad inexpensive pastime ol the suininer months You can bave aa OLD TOWN CANOE 8) scenic gunset Wene today for fee booklet strated tn colors wth canoeing scenes tom everyebere, Also informatica about forming canoe cicbs If’you wish ft. OLD TOWN CANOE Co. 1533 Middle Street Old Towa, 2000 Canoes to choose from Agents all places From a Believer A Comfortable foe eles sc ge nome Shave Anytime, exhibition in the number of Septem- ber 22, and at struck me that this must seem a good reason to you “ why aman must not marry a suffragette”; that if he did he would help to exterminate that silly, thoughtless kind of women with undeveloped brain, who furnish such excellent matter for a funny paper, for no suffragette who has the development cf her sex at heart would ever be found guilty of such foolishness, There may be some freaks hanging on to the strap in our fastly moving car, but they are only specimens of a disappearing race. The truc suffra- gette is an carnest, faithful womart who knows her duty and follows it fearlessly regardless of the pleasure some men find in ridiculing their cause. Eanuie S Scwarrer. , Standard Set, Including St ing Attachment Syracuse, NY, and 6 Double-edged, Hollow-ground bindes, #3 Fel: Extra blades. 6 for 50c. February 5, 1911 Send for Booklet today . DURHAM DUPLEX RAZOR CO., 111 Fifth Ave (Continued on page 461) DURHAM DUPLEX RAZOR CO., Lid. 86 St As all merit — perfectly blended and thoroughly aged. Quality and purity combine to make BLACK & WHITE Scotch Whisky the standard of excellence. Hotels, restaurants and cafes are anxious to serve it because they know it insures your, satisfaction and continued patronage comicbooks.com