Life, 1911-03-09 · page 29 of 44
Life — March 9, 1911 — page 29: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements** interspersed with brief humorous anecdotes rather than political cartoons. The ads promote consumer goods (Packard pianos, Goerz camera lenses, Victor phonographs and needles, Allen's Foot-Ease powder) typical of early 20th-century Life magazine's revenue model. The humor comes from short jokes: - A **patience anecdote** about a Fish Commissioner planting salmon, featuring a ticket agent's deadpan response about waiting twenty-five years—satirizing bureaucratic tedium. - Two brief, mild jokes about endurance tests (suburban living) and medical language ("patient is much better, though Dr. Brown is still in attendance")—gentle wordplay with no political content. The **Victor Victrola advertisement** emphasizes interchangeable needles for different sound qualities, positioned as innovation in home entertainment. There is **no political satire or caricature** on this page—it reflects Life's evolution toward advertising-heavy content while maintaining light, domestic humor for middle-class readers.
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GC If you go into the important matter of buying a piano with an open mind—and a determination to get the best at the fairest price—the chances are you'll buy a Packard Packard pianos—and piano players— are sold by the better dealers every- where—or direct by The Packard Com- pany, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Send for Catalogue GG—and our liberal pay- ment plan—to-day Patience Fish Commissioner George M. Bow- ers has succeeded in plantii Chinook salmon in Lake Sunapee, N. H., and visitors to the Ben Mere now catch four and five pound Chinooks at the Hedgehog. It took forty years to plant Pacific sal- mon in the East—a work of patience. “Yes, it has been a work of patience,” said Commissioner Bowers in an inter- view in Washington. “Such patient work makes me think of the ticket agent in the railway station. “A woman said to the ticket agent “*Look here, sir, I've been standing before this window twenty-five minutes!’ “The agent, a gray, withered little man, answered gent]. “*Ah, madam, I've been standing be- hind it twenty-five years.’”” —Boston Herald. To Take Better Pictures DD ilave you reached the point where you! are noi tatisfied with ordinary pictures—where ‘ou would Gke~en_equipment thet will always give you expert results? U $0, it is time you knew the GOERZ tens Knows among erperts a4 the highest grade eee hat tan Me both = eoneredy wed by war phimgresber snd profcmnenals who mast get perledt few even ender tcuieen You can have your owe comers esse Oe Cre Lae AA. re se, wr Seed for Our Bask on “Lemons and! Camerea® T the prone vale to unyene interested in good phatogresy €.P. Goers Amertean OpticalCa., 21D, F. 34th 8t, N.Y. City leedle to the Victor is like adding a . Pics to a church organ. It gives new dange sand yi aS Well as beauty. Some Victor feo sound best played with a Victor ers with a\Victdr Fibre Needle. With the n adjust volume and fons, Practice soon V Needles in Victor Full-tone Needle G gives great volume of sound, that fills a large hall, and is heard above ordinary conversation. It makes music loud enough for dancing. For 50 cents yo box altered 50. ag rooth, soft, D With this your records will rever, and you will And be sure to hear the Victor-Victrola New Victor Records are on sale at all dealers on the 23th ef each month ALLEN S FOOT-EASE | Shake Into Your Shoes | Allen's Foot-Ease, the antl: for the feet. It relieves p ing, Dervous feet, and instantly tal The Surest Known y, pa, what’s an endurance test?” Living in the suburbs, my son.” —Harper’s Bazar. Well Meant sweating, “callow A description of a wedding in the } au. We have o Evening News explains that * the bride A moniale, Tipe Ur To-DA} was charmingly though — becomingly e ” : * TRIAL PACKAGE dressed.” It reminds us of the re- FREE 2aty nat porter’s note: “The patient is much s bi HER GRAY'S SWEET POWDERS, better, though Dr. Brown is still in at- q by Draxslate tendance.”"—Black and White. son