Life, 1911-03-23 · page 35 of 44
Life — March 23, 1911 — page 35: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** with one editorial letter-to-the-editor section. The main items are product advertisements: French boneless sardines, Reo automobiles (prominently featuring a car that completed a New York-to-San Francisco journey in 10 days), Club Cocktails (pre-made martinis), Allen's Foot-Ease powder, and Houbigant perfumes. The editorial content is a letter responding to **Dr. William Osler**, a prominent physician who apparently claimed men became useless after sixty. The writer sarcastically attacks this by referencing Osler's support for vaccination and 18th-century statistics, then pivots to cite Japan's vaccination records (1889-1908) showing improved public health outcomes—implying modern medicine proves people remain valuable and capable throughout life, contradicting Osler's ageist claims. The page reflects early 20th-century concerns about aging, medical progress, and consumer modernity rather than political satire.
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THE LATEST STAND IN THE MARCH OF PROGRESS | French Boneless Sardines IN SANITARY TINS = Etablissements Lorientais Lorient, France If your Grocer cannot supply them please send his address 10 Meyer & Lange, New York, Sole Agents § ‘ The car that went from -| NewYork toSanFrancisco in 10 days 15 hours 13 “ Lameniten hoes E minutes, without a wrench ra shee | touched to its engine‘will What do you think of Dr. Osler’s last freak in trying to prove his old claim that a man is no good after : : " do all that you want of a sixty, by stating now that he believes in vaccination and bringing up the old a ote . Eighteenth Century statistics, the story id oy motor Car. of times when people were dying like ‘ : Cc : epee de Eee fee ainoes ee omfort? Prove it your- of plagues, because the gutters and 4 even the streets and back alleys were lie , ~| self. Get the nearest Reo flowing with filth and when the people lived in unventilated rooms? Why dl Le % & dealer to take you out. should anyone depend upon ancient Reo Touring Car or Roadster, $1250 Top and Mezger Automatic Windshield extra Reo Two-passenger Roadster, $1050 Top and Mezger Automatic Windshield extra Reo Fore Door Touring Car, $1350 Mezger Automatic Windshield included Reo Limousine. . . . . « $2000 Send for catalogue and “ Coast to Coast in Ten Days”. ; R M Owen & Co Lansing Mich “gen !* Reo Motor Car Co The finest cocktail in : Canadian Factory St Catharines Ontario the world—less the trouble of preparing it. Accept no substitate. Martini (gin base) ond Man- hattan (whiskey base) are the ‘moat popular. At SSS = = =| tory of Japan's experience with vacci- y of Jap perience Shake Into Your Shoes | nation and smallpox? From 1889 to —— | . = Allen's Foot-Ease, the antiseptic powder: 1908, inclusive, Japan enforced her for the feet. It relieves painful, swollen, i Pts smarting tender, nervous feet, and instantly) compulsory vaccination and revaccina- takes the sting out of coms and bunions. It's tion laws to the limit. Now we have spe Bee. Ail so Poptceve wakes” Gaht fa iri 7: . for ew shoes feel easy. Itis a certain remedy] direct from the Bureau of Vital Sta earring nay sweating aloes 204) tisti m »-story each:and AWA tired, aching feet. We have over 30,(40 testi- istics at Tokio, the story of each and b monials. TRY IT TO-DAY. Sold every. (Continued on page 597) 4 where, 25c. Do not accept any sebstitute. C.F, HEUBLEIN &BRO., 5 For. | Houhig t-Paris scursiat’, FREE fatty saimecr HARTFORD NEWYORK LONDON ou gan =Farls Scape of Highest | { Moteat mms tee penaee oe & pinch, dren. Sold by Druggists everywhere. In Every Store rN ‘Trial packaze FR = BE. Address, ] ALLEN 8. OLMSTED, LeRoy, N. Y.| 595 comicbooks.com