Life, 1911-03-23 · page 36 of 44
Life — March 23, 1911 — page 36: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains three distinct ads: 1. **Speedwell Motor Car** (top left): A roadster priced at $2,500, advertised as durably built—"a car that no man has ever worn out." 2. **Martell's Brandy** (top right): Lists five quality-control points emphasizing the brandy's superior production and maturation process. A straightforward luxury product advertisement. 3. **"Plupy: The Real Boy"** (bottom left): A book advertisement by Judge Henry A. Shute, promoting a children's/young adult novel about boyish adventures, illustrated with a silhouette of a horse-drawn carriage. 4. **Right side**: An unclear illustration with dialogue about someone whistling, likely part of a serialized comic or humorous story. No political messaging or satirical cartoon is evident. This represents typical early-1900s magazine advertising mixed with entertainment content.
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an flere is a Car that no man ; has ever worn ou Liferature upon request THE SPEEDWELL MOTOR. CAR CO. 370 ESSEX AVE DAYTON, 0. 5 Points Worth Remembering 1 That only the finest Charente wine enters * MARTELL’S distilleries. 2 That it is there distilled with utmost care * by MARTELL & CO. themselves. This ensures its extraordinary quality. That there are tens of thousands of punch- * eons developing and maturing in MAR- TELL’S stores. 4 That consequently MARTELL & CO. never * have to bottle a Brandy until it is perfectly fit and ready for the mark it is to carry. 5 That to call a Brandy better than MAR- * TELL’S is an empty boast—to beat MAR- TELL’S for Quality a frank impossibility. Remember these 5 points and always ask for 4 MARTELL’S ®\:-..::; BRANDY Sole Agents, G. S. Nicholas & Co., New York THE REAL BOY BY JUDGE HENRY A. SHUTE Author of “The Reat Diary of a Rea! Boy." aA = wee _ “By nr Wey ‘Nellie went out of the shafts like a shot.” . No one can say that its frankness is other than a virtue. youthful vitality. The story is gloriously and familiarly bour- ves the reader, if he has not already done 30. to the fellows, and if he is already on speak- aintance in the present volume, which we ior to" The Real Diary of a Real Boy” y make the acquaint: ing terms with them, can assure him is but in its appeal.—Boston 12mo, 368 pages, 53 full page silhouettes, $1.50 FOR SALE EVERYWHERE RICHARD G. BADGER, Publisher, BOSTON “0, LOOK, JOUN! WERR'S A WHISTLER.” John; po yOU THINK THAT HIS MOUTH 1S PUCKERED zxoven? ( every } 1908; and the them, comicbooks.com