Life, 1911-11-16 · page 10 of 44
Life — November 16, 1911 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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**Top Illustration:** Four well-dressed "Interesting People" from Chicago, identified left-to-right as Mr. Wurses Vuceless, Miss Cilia Nuthers, Mrs. M'Vor Under, and Mr. J. Fatcow's Triumph. These appear to be caricatured Chicago society figures, though the humorous names suggest the identities are satirical rather than literal. **Main Article:** "Mr. Taft is an Abstainer" debunks a false rumor that President Taft was eating wine-soaked turkey, clarifying his actual temperance stance. **Bottom Cartoons:** "Pigs is Pigs" shows contrasting scenes—one pastoral, one urban—illustrating Chicago's dual nature as both agricultural and industrial city. The page satirizes Chicago society, politics, and local contradictions through illustrated humor.
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INTERESTING PEOPLE From a Recent Reading from Left to Right: mr. MRS. M'EVOR ONDEK Photograph WURSEN YUCELISS, MISS CILLIA NUTHERS, AND MR, J. FATUOUS ToMUMPP, Mr. Taft is an Abstainer O, no! That newspaper story can- not be true that a farmer near Waterbury, Conn., is feeding a turkey wine-soaked food in hopes that it will be President Taft's Thanksgiving turkey. The President would not eat any of 1s PIGS a wine-soaked turkey. When he took office he gave out publicly that while he continued to be President he would abstain from alcoholic drinks. He would no more eat the Waterbury man’s turkey than he would eat an alcohol- ized mince pie or a brandied peach. Chicago HEAT-PIT battle; Killing cattle; Sausage-casing ; Graftcr-chasing ; Novel-reading ; Auto-speeding ; Land First Bath Wild promoters ; Ward voters; House John and Hinky reformers. slinging Dink; ink. Hurly-burly Late and early; Quick divorces; Moral forces; New religions Sleek stool-pigeons ; Mad and merry; Literary; Crowding the Art Institute: Scooting on the shoot-the-chute. Penny papers : Social capers; Loop that's choking; Engines smokin Bathing beaches Showing peaches ; Wagner; Handel ; Riot; scandal ; Actors on the avenue Telling what they will not do. Soap and glue-works; Pants and shoe-works ; Games on Sunday; Sales on Monday ; Banks o’erflowing ; Surplus growing; Gallant coppers; State street shopper Gold-brick artists Misers and_ philanthropists. pessimists ; Busy, breezy; Never easy; Sane and solid; Never stolid; Ugly; pretty Village; ci Wisdom ; folly; Friendly; jolly ;— ‘There's some niore like that—gee whiz !— That's just how Chicago is. Wilbur D. Nesbit. Beyond Doubt “DID you go to see D. Cadent’s play derful!” The cynic effects are won- comicbook Mee 5