Life, 1911-03-30 · page 3 of 45
Life — March 30, 1911 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and travel promotion**, not political satire. The main content features a Northern Pacific Railway advertisement promoting Yellowstone National Park vacations for summer 1911 (June 15–September 15). The ads emphasize luxury hotel accommodations and natural scenery, targeting affluent travelers seeking "restful and healthful recreation." Secondary advertisements include: - **W.P. Willis & Co.** (New York clothmakers) - **National Sportsman** magazine promotion - **Bernard Shaw** essay on social reform and healthcare The page reflects early 20th-century leisure culture: wealthy Americans taking extended vacations to natural wonders, accessible via new railroad infrastructure. No political cartoons or satirical commentary appears present—this is straightforward period advertising typical of *Life* magazine's commercial pages.
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W.P.Wittis & C2 New Yor‘ Trponrers” HE Snglish Clothmakers of SAto ther trade-— it as part of their birthright to be able to eens ‘ < Magnificent New Canyon Hotet best als of tts kind in Overlooking Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone e¢ world, To be had only of Custom Tatlors—| When Summer Comes— Never in Ready Made Clothin, Hie away to Yellowstone Park. Live with Nature for two weeks— four weeks—better yet: three months, This new half-million- dollar hotel, and the other four comfortable stopping places in the Park (including the famous rustic Old Faithful Inn), invite to Bernard Shaw restful and healthful recreation. Every up-to-date convenience of Shaw asks for life as against death; for freedom as against slavery; for as- sertion as against negation. He is against present institutions and present morality because these do not make for life and freedom and happiness, but for misery, poverty, sorrow, discase and death. If you ask Shaw what you ought to do, he tells you in the following pieces of advice: Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor; not even a poor employer or a poor landlord. Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill- health Remember that an illness is a misde- meanor; and treat the doctor as an ac- » Hello, Brother! EeNvE BDH ros to eet 10,009 good $34 nd eat Camp’ bre eace a oat and spin yarns about Red, Dog, Rite and NATIONAL — arOR Toma you to see f hat te National Sportaman {sand make you this Special 3 Offer On receipt of 25 tn stamps This Mooth* Sportaman, -e; National Soortsman eS. Dev'tdctay—Send TODAY! ALL TOUMS FOR: Sstional Sportaman, Inc... 98 Federal Street, Boston, Mass. metropolitan hotels. @A 143-mile coaching trip over government- kept boulevards through the Land of Geysers. Nowhere else can you find so rare a combination of climate, scenery, phenomena, out-door life and luxurious entertainment as you may enjoy in Yellowstone National Park. Season 1911: June 15-September 15 Send 6 cents in stamps for beautiful art book “Through Wonderland” and full particulars of service, very low Summer Tourist fares, etc., via the Northern Pacific Railway Only line to Gardiner Gateway, the natural and official entrance to the Park. Mention this magazine and receive Yellowstone souvenir book mark. A. M. CLELAND, General Passenger Agent 16 Broadway, ST. PAUL, MINN. Asaual Rose Festival, Portand, Ore., Jane 6-10, 1911, cessory unless he notifies every case to the Public Health authority. Treat every death as a possible and under our present system a probable murder, by making it the subject of a reasonably conducted inquest; and exe- cute the doctor, if necessary, as a doctor, by striking him off the re; Make up your mind how many doctors the community needs to keep it well. Do not register more or less than this num- ber; and let registration constitute the doctor a civil servant with a dignified living wage paid out of public funds. ‘Treat the private operator exactly as you would treat a private executioner. Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers. Keep the public carefully informed, by special statistics and announcements of individual cases, of all illnesses of doctors or in their families. (Concluded on page 609) comicbooks.com |