Life, 1911-03-02 · page 42 of 52
Life — March 2, 1911 — page 42: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements and reader letters**, not editorial satire. The content includes: **Main Advertisement:** A Thermos bottle company promoting an affordable $2 pint-sized bottle, emphasizing its utility for workers, families, and invalids. The copy stresses accessibility and practicality. **Side Advertisements:** Paris Garters (hosiery), Evans' Ale, and cruise lines (West Indies, Jamaica). **Reader Letters:** Two letters to Life's editor—one from a troubled reader in Oakland seeking prayer, and a longer piece from a mother defending vaccination against a previous anti-vaccination letter published in Life's December 22 issue. **Historical Context:** The vaccination letter is notable as it reflects early-1900s public debate over mandatory childhood vaccination, a contentious issue then. The mother's support for vaccination (compulsory in England) was apparently responding to anti-vaccine sentiment Life had recently published. This appears to be a regular magazine page blending commerce with reader correspondence, typical of Life's format during this era.
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LIFE: At Last A Genuine Thermos Bottle for $2 After 3 years experimenting, we have finally perfected a pint elze Thermos Poti to fetal at $2 that keeps hot and cold just as well as our highest-priced eles. This new $2 bottle now brings Thermos within the reach of your pocket- book, no matier how smal! your income may be. Think of the Comfort and Convenience that $2invested in this “Combina tion Pocketstove and Icebox Bottle” will add to your noonday meal at the Fac- tory, Office or Store by serving you soup, tea or coffee piping hot! Then at night, think how it will also serve your wife, your baby or your invalid mother with hot or cold nourishment whenever needed. So why deprive yourself another day of the added comfort, health, pleasure, satisfaction and convenience which thermos will give you, and ALL YOUR FAMILY, in the Nursery or Sickroom, at Schoot or College, at Home or when Travelling, and in every form of Outdoor Life, when you can now buy ail this for a $2 bill! Sce tt at any first class store today and take one home with you tonight! PLEASE BE CAUTIOUS as there are worthless imitations _ Look for the name Thermos stamped on the bottom AND BE SURE YOU SEE IT! Ask the dealer (or write us) for “The Thermos Book.” illustrating and de- ecribing-all Thermos Specialties and their uses. on everg Garter 25¢%-60¢ ASTEING CO Mohas 508 Center Ave. CHICAGO U.S.A, KEEPS HOT THERMOS TRADE MARK proof, block tin Lunch Box with hinged cover, and Suitcases as Mtustrated anted In every ° Fac From Another Mother Dear Lire* In looking over pages of your weekly of December 22 I was reading a letter from a mother against having THERMOS BUILDING NEW YORK « zi her children vaccinated. Now permit me to write my little experience of having my children vaccinated. I am the mother of nine, the eldest twenty- nine and youngest seventeen. My eldest child was born in England, and, as you know, vaccinating was com- pulsory there at three months I had (Concluded on page 463) From Our Readers (Continued from page 461) dry So may the Lord answer your prayer, and do it quickly. Yours in trouble, R. Rosertson. Oaxtann, Cat, February 4, 1911. iVGEST _ INDIE 2 SPECIAL CRUISES by the palatial Steamship Hamburg (10,500 tons). Sailing March 18th. Cost $125 and upward. 16 DAY CRUISE by the S.S. Moltke (12,500 tons), ieaving New York March 28th. Cost $85 and up. (JAMAICA @ # 24 AND 25 DAY CRUISES . Hayti, Colon, Panama Canal, Costa Rica. Colombia. Weekly sailing by the splendid eamers of the Atlas Service. Cost $135 and 140 and upward. hay REFERRED by discriminating ale drinkers becausc it possesses the characteristics sought and appreciated by those who know what ale should be. These qualities are to the Boston ale what brains are to the individual. Evans’ Ale looks good, tastes good and does good, be cause it is Evans’. Clubs, Restaurants, Cafes, Chop Houses, Dealers. HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE, Philadelphia Pittsburg Chicago Write for full information describing these and ether Neatur cruises tothe Orient, West Indien Around the Wolk. tle, 45 Broadway, New York St. Louis San Francisco comicbooks.com