Life, 1911-07-20 · page 5 of 40
Life — July 20, 1911 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The main content is a large Bell Telephone advertisement ("The Good Road For Universal Service!") that uses infrastructure metaphor: telephone lines are compared to roads connecting homes across America. The ad argues for standardized, universal telephone service—that poor service in one area disrupts communication everywhere, just as a bad road section blocks travel. The smaller items are unrelated advertisements: James Braid promotes "Allen's Foot-Ease" powder; a poem titled "A Watch in the Knight" appears to be humorous verse; and Calox tooth powder is advertised at bottom left. There is **no political cartoon** on this page. The content reflects early 20th-century commercial messaging about infrastructure and consumer products.
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JAMES BRAID SAYS: No Athlete can do himself justice if his feet hurt. Many thousands are using daily, abroad and in this ‘country, Allen's Foot-Ease, the antiseptic powder to feshaken into the shoes. All the prominent Golfers ad Tennis Players at Augusta, Pinehurst and Palm Beach got much satisfaction fromits use this Spring. Itgivesa restfulnessanda springy feeling that makes you forget you ha F greatest comfort discovery of the age and fe. It prevents soreness, blisters or puffing and gives rest from tired, tender or swollen feet, Sev ars ove DOO testimonials, ithout a pack: se. Sold everywhere, 25c._ Don't accept any substitute, Sample sent FREE. Ad- dress Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. A Watch in the Knight “There's a curious case in number seven,” Said the nurse as, making his rounds, The visiting surgeon came that way. “He's making the queerest sounds! “There's a clear tick-tack that [ hear cach time That I put my ear to his side. And the strangest thing He can tell the time With never a clock to gu I's my watch! It must have dropped When IL sewed up number seven! And I've wound it promptly for many ars As the town clock struck cleven! “TL declare! “Tecan't get it now, I fear, in time— I's the man from Kansas City? He's a Knight of Pythi y bad luck. And sharp, 1oo—more's the pity. li The Good Road For Universal Service! Every man’s home faces on a road which connects with every other road and leads to every other home throughout the whole land. Main highways connect with cross-roads so that a man can go where he chooses, easily and comfortably if conditions are favorable. But the going is not always the same; some roads are good—some are bad. The experts in the South illustrate the _ difference by showing four mules drawing '} two bales of cotton slowly over a poor, | muddy cross-road, and two mules drawing ' eight bales of cotton rapidly over a first- class macadam highway. Ine an- 13, for The Bell Telephone lines are the roads over which the speech of the nation passes. Take the best tooth-powder ever ; _made—Make it a little better — » | *Then add Oxygen—That’s CALOX, the Oxygen Tooth Powder. | The Buffalo Medical Journal says: | _“It may be confidently asserted that Caloxisthe only dentifrice that willster- ilize the mouth and arrest out injury to the soft tissue most scientific tooth powder which the laboratory has yet produced.” Sample and Booklet free on request. All Druggists 25c. Ask for the Color Tooth Brush, 35 McKESSON & ROBBINS NEW YORK ¥ AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY The highways and byways of personal communication are the 12,000,000 miles of wire connecting 6,000,000 telephones in homeson these highways. Steadily the lines are being extended to every man’s home. The public demands that all the roads of talk shall be good roads. It is not enough to have a system that is universal; there must be macadamized highways for talk all the way to every man’s home. A single section of bad telephone line is enough to block communication or confine it to the immediate locality. Good going on the telephone lines is only possible with one policy and one system. Good going everywhere, at all times, is the aim of the Bell system. | AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES | | One Policy One System Universal Service “A. stemwinder, I could manage, I'm sure, my plyers—see? now, But alas! it's my grandfather's bunting case And opens to wind with a key “Just give out the notice, ‘A special case— Number seven, at half-past_nine— The wound to be opencd and cleaned inside"! I can wind my watch on time!” Frances C. Stimson Svitox: “I would like to see the photo of the lady with the $500,000 dowry.” Marrimoxiat. Acext: “We don't show photos with the large dowries.” —Wasp. comicbooks.com