Life, 1911-11-23 · page 30 of 44
Life — November 23, 1911 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising and humor page** from Life magazine, circa 1910. The main content includes: **"Our Foolish Contemporaries" section**: Brief satirical anecdotes mocking contemporary figures and attitudes—including a joke about a widow's marital history and Mayor Speer of Denver's temperance advocacy. **"Optimistic Lincoln" humor**: A anecdote about Dr. Burleigh meeting President Lincoln, who had just been elected. When Burleigh demands a government job, Lincoln offers him the Yankton Sioux Indians agency at $1,500/year—too little to live on. Lincoln's reply ("you'll never starve to death!") is the punchline, mocking both job-seeking desperation and Lincoln's dry wit. **Advertisements dominate**: Chiclets gum, Yosemite travel, Allen's Foot-Ease, a Christmas cedar chest, and "The Good Old Days" book by Charles Wheeler Bell. The page satirizes early 20th-century American life—political patronage, temperance movements, and nostalgia—while selling consumer goods to middle-class readers.
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bales DURING I9IO, 2.623.412 CHICLETS WERE SOLD EACH DAY An Explanation “So married! Did your husband die, “The latter.” —Chicago Record-Herald. you have been or what?” Goed Intentions Denver at a recent discussing a Mayor Speer of perance banquet ink cure of little efficacy. “When I think of this cure,” he said, in with a re strate’s office was “I recall a poor old wom: nose who entered am nd said I'd like 10 take the pledge, if ye hic Che Dainty Mint Covered Candy Co nd Chewing Gum Strong in flavor, but not offensive. A delicate morsel, refreshing the mouth and throat and allaying after-dinner or after-smoking distress. refinement of chewing gum for people of refinement. lets REALLY DELIGHTFUL The It’s the peppermint—the fre mint. clerk, to take it * said the id you wish polite For Sale at all the Better Sort of Stores “In the past,’ said the old woman, always took it for life.” —San Francisco Chronicle 54 the Ounce and in 5¢,J0¢ and 25¢ Packets SEN-SEN CHICLET COMPANYerveonaitan toute nt vote 2 WAT F case of 6 glass stopp Ootimistic Lincoln Dr. Burleigh was one of the settlers of Dakota and Montan; was a boyhood friend of Abraham Lin- The doctor used to tell this Lin- coln story on himself. When Lincoin Bur- leigh was in Minnesota on his way to He lai ed at the thought of Lincoln running for Presi- dent, and went into the woods. He stayed in the woods until the following summer; when he came out he found Only $28.50 Freight coln. was nominated a logging camp. Ina Ploch, use ALLENS FOOT-EASE, Yosemite National Park IN WINTER A SCENE OF MAGIC BEAUTY Snow Capped Mountains Frozen Waterfalls Flowing Streams Beneath Tunnels of Snow —_Sleighing, Skating, Tobogganing And This in the Very Bosom of Sunshine, Fruit and Flowers A Veritable Fairyland is California See That Your Tickets Read Southern Pacific Sunset Route Traversing a Wonderful Country New Orleans to San Francisco Superior Equipment Descriptive Literature on Request L. H. Nutting, GC. E.P. A., 1158 or 366 or 1 B'dway, New York 2 Do YOU think “The Good Old Days” were the better days? Charles Wheeler Bell thinks so, and the way he proves it makes one of the funniest books of the year. Witty, snappy paragraphs with human nature in. every line. Delicious pictures by Fox the famous cartoonist of the Chicago Evening Post. Cover in Colors and Gold. 50 cents eet. AT ALL BOOKSELLERS A. C. McCLURG & CO., Pub. that Lincoln had not only been elected but inaugurated Burleigh hurried to Washington and demanded a job. “What kind of a place do you want?” ident Lincoln. ind—where there's not much smiled Lincoln, “that most of those jobs are gone. I'll have my secretary look round and sce what find for you. Come back to- morrow.” Burleigh went back. “ Burleigh,” said “Tm afraid, President Lincoln, “there isn’t much left. The best thing I can offer you is the agency of the Yankton Sioux Indians. It pays fifteen hundred dollars a year.” “But, Abe,” expostulated Burleigh, “a man can't live on that salary! I'd cither have to to death or rob the Government.’ “Well, Burleigh,” replied the Presi- dent, “ you'll never starve to death!” —Saturday E; g Post. arve Caront Bitters—One (1) pony glass before meals. Tonic and Appetizer. No home withoutit, C. Blache & Co., 78 Broad St., comicbook ban] Y..Gen'l Distrs | Thelt