Life, 1911-04-27 · page 29 of 44
Life — April 27, 1911 — page 29: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and poetry**, not satire or political cartooning. The main content features a **Hupmobile automobile advertisement** (right side), promoting this car brand's global success and reliability. The ad emphasizes international sales to places like Cairo, Manila, Tokyo, and Sydney, positioning the Hupmobile as superior to European competitors. The left side contains a **sentimental poem titled "A Toast"** (attributed to the Los Angeles Herald), which celebrates losers and underdogs—"the also rans." The poem honors those who competed but lost, emphasizing their struggle and suffering. Supporting advertisements include neckwear (Macullar Parker Company) and a Swiss resort (St. Moritz). **No political cartoon or satirical commentary is present.** This is a commercial magazine page mixing product advertisements with inspirational verse—typical early 20th-century Life magazine content before it evolved into primarily humor-focused publication.
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VECK WEAR NS NECKWEAR In New and Exclusive Styles tor Spring Wear Of especial interest to men of refinement w Accord wear all of the Shap by Boodle B will tell vou here, application. MACULLAR PARKER COMPANY goo Washington St Boston, Mass friends, to the the valiant and the earth ye have drunk ed your song. . my brothers, ment 5} ith to the ‘also rans.” who went down in sners who finished unplac nd young, the 1 ¢ surpassed, the defea Ae and Village (Dott) of St. Moritz ST. MORITZ SWITZERLAND—6000 feet above Sea The Gem of the Engadine ee Most Fascinating Resort In Europe “ld-renowned Mineral Springs and Baths Great Variety of Delightful Excursions Goli and Tennis Tournaments Benrted Booktet t om Swiss Federal Railway Co., 261 Filth Ave., New Yerk F. 0. b, Detroit, including three oil lamps tools and horn. Top, windshield Detachable doors {or any Hupmobile Runabout (as shown), $25 extr: Touring , $000, including gas lamps and generator, shock absorbers in front, 31 three oil lamps, tools and horn. Fore doors, $25 ext The world’s mighty tribute s lamps and tank 34-inch rear tires to the Hupmobile The two years that have passed since the Hupmobile first came into the market have recorded a remarkable success for it, both in the United States and abroad. Here it is still the dominant of its type. It has never had a_ serious rival. Its field has not been en- croached upon by developments since its advent. And now the whole world is buying the Hupmobile. Hundreds are being shipped to Eng- lend, Germany, France, Russia and Holland. Cairo and Capetown, Manila and Honolulu, Tokio and Shanghai, New Zealand and Tasmania, South Am- erica and the West Indies, Sydney and Melbourne are sending in their orders—Sydney even cabling not long since for an additional large shipment of cars. This is the mightiest tribute the world can pay to the Hupmobile—whose sturdiness and worth neither Ameri- can nor European manufacturer has yet been able to duplicate in a car of like type. HUPP MOTOR CAR COMPANY, Dept. J, DETROIT, MICH. Who are ye that should dare to reject them? . Do ye know what the handicaps weighed? F Did ye suffer the pain, run the race, stand the strain, That ye scoff at the pace that they may be that they ran overweighted, be they were left the post— Far near, ‘tis to them, the ill fated, I bow as I drink my toast. 4S have lost, they are ill, they are weary; © won, ye are well, ye are strong. By the drops that they bled, by the tears that they shed, By your mirth, by your wine, by your song, all that has eer helped to swe Your lives; by your hopes, by your plans, I pledge you the health of the beaten, The health of the “also rans.” —Los Angeles Herald. comicbooks.com