Life, 1911-03-09 · page 40 of 44
Life — March 9, 1911 — page 40: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** from Life magazine, typical of early 20th-century publications. The content includes: **Main Advertisement Section:** Manning-Bowman kitchen products (coffee percolators, tea pots) marketed as quality items "for tables of taste." **Social Commentary:** A brief joke about Adam and Eve, where Adam cynically notes that "the ultimate consumer always gets the worst of it"—a swipe at economic inequality and worker exploitation. **Wall Street Journal Editorial:** A darkly satirical piece criticizing Russian doctor "Pantchenko the Poisoner" for inefficiency. The writer sarcastically suggests the doctor should have used typhoid germs instead, noting that American military doctors accomplish similar deaths through mandatory soldier vaccinations with impunity. This is **anti-vaccination satire**, implying the U.S. military's vaccine programs kill soldiers just as deliberately (though legally). **Minor Items:** Perfume and silverware ads, plus a brief anecdote about a Baltimore boy forced to practice piano. The page reflects early-1900s concerns about medical authority, military practices, and consumer culture.
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ERE owman. Quality Products Table - cooking and Serving Specialties “for tables of taste’’ Sectional Our Coffee Percolators Starting with cold water, make colice of a superior flavoras quickly as ordinary percolators starting with hot water—the colfee is ready to serve before the water boils. Simple, e23y to clean, no valves, no clogging. "Transparent view ’* showi tea ball raised. Our Tea Ball Tea Pots ‘The tea ball is raised or lowered without re- moving cover of pot—all dane by the knob. Bail and chain remain inside the cover at all times, ‘Tea made in this pot is always uniformly deli- cious, It does not become stronger by standing, as the tea bail is then raised above the liquid. Made in solid copper, aluminum, nickel or silver plate. At leading dealers’, Write for Free Recipe Book and Catalogue Number C-26 davon, sIWMAN & £0., Menace Ceemenect Ma =. me Ons ish vores, rm | Fea Bal’ rea poy Sige Duna “Tse sorry you've got to leave Eden and go to work simply because I gave you the rest of that apple,” said contrite Eve. “Never mind,’ answered Adam. “The ultimate consumer always gets the worst of it.""—Washington Star. INVESTORS READ The Wall Street Journal_ Not Clever “ Pantchenko the Poisoner,” is the headline of an iter regarding the Russian doctor who killed Count de Lacy’s brother-in-law with diphtheria germs for a trifling fee of $200,000, and whose trial just now is one of the most sensational, rivaling that of Madame Steinheil. Why, in the name ef common sense, didn’t he employ typhoid fever “germs” in the pre- tense of immunizing the Count from ever having that dise: as our army surgeons are doing with all soldiers and sailors who “ volunteer "—under the pressure of the anger of their superior officers in case of refusal? Every such inoculation makes the lads ill (“reaction”’ is the technical term), and occasionally one of them will pass on, as the saying goes. It would lave been casy enough for Dr. Pantchenko to exp!ain that it was ow- ing to some idiosyncrasy in the Count’s constitution that caused the “acci- dent,” as an overweak heart, perhaps, according to the formula of our American physicians when a child dies after the employment of anti-toxin or vaccine virus. Thea there would have been no occasion for confession and all the ungentecl sequel now so em- barrassing. Ge sais que moins d’une goulte parfum Djer-Kiss can- Aaincra n’imparte quelle fornme de sa supréme déficatesse ct raffincment. —Kerkoff, Paris ‘now that less than a drop. 3s perfume will convince any woman of its supreme delicacy and refinement.”” ract, Sachet, Face and Tafum Powder Atall dealers, Send 6c. for Sample of Extract. Alfred H. Smith Co., 41 Wei and will get a bad im "pression of your housekeeping triers your silverware is bright end clean, Weienr’ KY _ SILVER CREAN used by over @ million American women, (pay fowiotety nothing equals it for making silver nt end new. Always ready for use, housewife writes: “*For fiftern years I have used only Wright's Silver Oren on my silverwaro which. min my family for four generations,’ A perfect bet polish for silverware, metalware, cut glass, marble, porcelain or enamel. Your, dealer knows about “Wright's Silver Cream’*— insist on getting the genuine. Send 6 cents (in stampe) fora large sample jar. J. A. WRIGHT & CO., 180 Coart St., Keene, N. H. A Change For The Better The nine-year-old boy of a Baltimore family, who is compelled by his parents to practice daily upon the piano, may not be a clever performer, but he has a pretty shrewd notion of the worth of an instru ment, as well as a rather mature wit, as is evidenced by an incident in the household not long since. His father, upon returning home from a week's absence, heard the lad plug- ging away at the piano. “When did you learn that new piece, son?” asked the parent. “It isn't a new piece, dad,” answered the boy. “The piano has been tuned.” —Lippincott's. yee \\ KYW __ 8 185 to 189 Ree JFTHE MOST TALKED OF FIRM IN LONDON] lhe Same wpa lage 8 pace eon the times Overholt Rye De endably thesa same |lways—mellow, rich, pure—a deli. ciousness never to be forgotten comicbooks.com