Life, 1911-03-02 · page 47 of 52
Life — March 2, 1911 — page 47: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** rather than editorial content. It contains three advertisements: 1. **Hampshire Paper Co.** (top left): Promotes high-quality bond paper for business correspondence, emphasizing the care taken in stationery production to match the care writers take in their letters. 2. **Cartoon** (bottom left): A humorous illustration showing a thin, spiky-haired child being threatened by an adult with the caption about not getting candy until eating "spikes." This appears to be a visual joke about a difficult child—likely referencing a contemporary figure or type—though the specific reference is unclear without more context. 3. **Fisk Rubber Company** (right side): Tire advertisement emphasizing quality, mileage, and fair dealing, with two tire photographs as product displays. The page reflects early 20th-century advertising conventions, mixing product pitches with light humor. The cartoon's specific satirical target isn't identifiable from the image alone.
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utemo- tion of Boat.” sition Walter rt Infinite Pains to Make Letters Look Right. You dictate carefully. You insist on correct spell- ing and punctuation. You are doubtless a stickler for mechanical neatness in your letters. How about your stationery? In making letter- paper for you we take even greater pains than you insist on your stenographer taking to get your Ictter right. It’s astaving good typist whose work can compare in intrinsic excellence with Did HimpehieeMoud Old Hampshire Bond has been as instrumental as the typewriter in placing present-day business correspondence on its high plane of dignity and appearance. Let us send you the Old Hampshire Bond Book of Speci- mens. It contains suggestions for letterheads and other busi- ness forms, printed, lithographed and engraved on the white and fourteen colors of Old Hampshire Bond. Write for it on your present letterhead. Address Hampshire Paper Co. South Hadley Falls, Mass, £() Oty ) The only paper makers in the world making bond paper exclusively. Makers of old hire Bond, “The Stationery of a Gentleman,” and also Old Hampshire Bond Typewriter Paper and Manu- script Covers. “WILLIE, YOU WON'T GET A SINGLE PIECE OF CANDY TILL U EAT EVERY ONE OF THOSE SPIXes.” Service and Satisfaction Are Assured if your Tire Equipment is FISK The name that stands for Quality, Mileage and a Fair Deal for each and every customer Investigate and Compare Before You Buy The Fisk Rubber Company Dept. S, Chicopee Falls, Mass Direct Factory Service in 23 Cities comicbooks.com