Life, 1911-03-09 · page 5 of 44
Life — March 9, 1911 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains four advertisements: 1. **B-Line Oil-Grease Guns** (top left): A practical product ad for motorists, priced $1.75-$5.00. 2. **Rauch & Lang Electrics** (center-right): An early electric automobile advertisement emphasizing reliability and efficiency—notable as electric cars were a viable alternative to gasoline vehicles in this era. 3. **Cascade Pure Whisky** (bottom left): A spirits advertisement. 4. **How to Speak in Public** (bottom right): A self-improvement course advertisement. The page includes one brief editorial piece, "Animals' Rights," discussing a cow's legal case in Coke County, but this is minor content. The page reflects early 20th-century consumer culture and advertising trends rather than political commentary.
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All-Metal OIL-GREASE GUNS <4 Answer The “C.Q.D.” of the Motorist USED AS AN OIL-CARRIER, The B-LINE GUN is on the spot in an emergency. Screw in the Piston-Bar; re~ place the metal plug by the Tip best suited tothe need; lubricate. Reverse the process and back into the kit it goes, an oil-<arrier once more. Clean Hands—Clean Clothes—a Clean job done—a car made ready to proceed. Constructed entirely cf seamless brass and Bessemer stecl, with pistons ground to a perfect fit, B-Line Guns never Yeah or get out of order, Four styles and seven sizes of the Best Oil Gun ever made, Prices from $1.75 to $5.00 Order to-day from your dealer. A bearing may go dry tomorrow. The Randall-Faichney Co. (The Jericho People) Boston, U. S. A. SEND YOR BOOKLET 11-G Animals’ Rights We have at last come across an ani- mal who not only intelligently enters into the question of her own rights, but who deliberately exercises them, Metsovenr, August 9th. n the Colac County Court to-day, Nellie Rocke, hieensce of the Lorne Hotel, Lorne, sued J. 'T. Anderson for £19 18., damages for trespass by a cow. Mrs, Rooke’s evidence was that the cow was simply incorrigible. It went about the place secking what it might devour. On dif- fereot occasions it walked into eight bed- te a mattress, broke the furniture and damage. It went up the stairs and 1 to the balcony, and upset the whole Enclosed Chain—or Shaft Drive In this car you can have the drive you prefer. Both are efficient, reliable, strong and quiet. Our factory facilities and long experience enable us to attain the maximum results in every department of electric brougham construction. We get the maximum mileage and power and have brought opera- tion down to perfect simplicity. We build the entire car, with only one standard—the highest possible. One look at a Rauch & Lang car is sufficient to convince any- one who has good taste—knows mechanics and electricity—of our standard. If you are not familiar with the two latter, bring some- one who Exide Batteries are standard equipment. The new “Ironclad” Exide and the Edison Battery can be furnished. Pneumatic or Rauch & Lang Motz High-Efficiency Cushion Tires are optional. Rauch & Lang agents, in all the principal cities, will gladly show you the car and arrange demonstrations—or we will forward our art portfolio’ on request. THE RAUCH & LANG CARRIAGE COMPANY 2276 W. Twenty-Fifth Street, Cleveland, Ohio place. It devoured a bag of potatoes asd a case of apples. The cow had a reput throughout Lorne for its inquisitiveness and destructive habits, Defendant paid £4 into court. Judge Eagelson assessed damages at £10 os. 6d., with costs. That cow has enough independence of character to qualify her for an Anti- yivisectionist, and sufficient determina- tion and will-power to enter the ranks of the Suffragettes—London Abolition- ist. Give Grenville Kleiser, (formerly of Yale Faculty), fifteen minutes of your time daily at home and he will teach you how fomake after-inner ben, ropose toasts, stor make fest epeeches ‘address board meetings. His Mail Coarse will help salesmen eell more goods, develo power and personality, tmprove memory, increase vocabulary, Blve polse and eelf-confidence: it will help a man earn more, achieve more. “Your course has of great service to me my business, and I commend it to others in the highest terms, saya Josnrm P. Day, New York's foremost auctioneer, If you'll write ¢o-day, we'll tell you all about it by mall. FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Dept.170, New Yorke comicbooks.com