Life, 1911-12-07 · page 78 of 112
Life — December 7, 1911 — page 78: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The top half features a Northern Pacific Railway advertisement promoting luxury train travel from California eastward through the Pacific Northwest to the Midwest. The copy emphasizes electric-lit "de luxe trains," dining car service, and the famous "Great Big Baked Potato" (apparently a regional signature dish). The lower portion contains two unrelated advertisements: one for "Holiday Handkerchiefs of Absolutely Pure Linen" from James McCutcheon & Co., and a cartoon illustration with an accompanying joke. The cartoon depicts what appears to be a chef or cook speaking in exaggerated foreign accent, claiming inability to distinguish between fine art and mayonnaise—a simple ethnic humor gag typical of early 20th-century American magazines, poking fun at immigrant workers' cultural unfamiliarity. The page represents typical Life magazine content: advertising mixed with light entertainment.
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ET your Winter Outing in Summerland be capped by the fitting climax of a never-to-be-forgotten trip eastward by way of Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Puget Sound—the Mediterranean of America—and through the Scenic Northwest, on one of the several daily electric-lighted de luxe trains of the 2 2 @ Northern [Pacific IRailway > From Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane Route of the North Coast Limited''—only all first-class through Missoula, Butte, Helena and Billings to train between the East and the North Pacific Coast. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Chicago, Omaha, St. Drawing rooms, compartments and open sections; Joseph, Kansas City and St. Louis, via Northern electric lights in upper as well as lower berths. The Pacific- Burlington lines. Daily electric-lighted line that maintains its own bake shops and poultry trains de luxe, through without change. and dairy farms to insure a perfect dining car service. The line that has made the GREAT BIG BAKED POTATO famous Let me send you illustrated booklets about our route and service and about Yellowstone Park for next summer's vacation The Scenic A. M. CLELAND Only Lise t9 Highway thro’ Gardine—Officia! the Land of Fortane » = pee ‘Agent Yellowstone Entrance mss Sart | r Established Registered Trade Mork Holf a Century ¥ i Lez Holiday Handkerchiefs Of Absolutely Pure Linen Our holiday assortment includes Plain Hemstitched Handkerchiefs in every desirable size. Fine Embroidered Handkerchiets, delicate Lace conceits, Hand Embroidered Initialed Handkerchiefs, together with many charming novelties in which a note of color has been introduced. We quote for some of the popular lines as follows : Madeira Embroidered Handkerchiefs with dainty eyelet embroidery and scallop edges, 50c, 75¢ and $1.00. Swiss Handkerchiefs with beautiful hand embroid- ery, in a large variety of designs, soc, 75¢ and $1.00 each. Real Valenciennes, Duchesse and Point Lace Handkerchiefs at $1.00, 2.00, 3.00. and up to 25.00 each. Hand Embroidered Initial Handkerchiefs, showing small, dainty letters, at 25¢, 50c, 75¢ and $1.00 each. Men’s Handkerchiefs in equally attractive assort- ment. Priced at 25¢ to $4.00 each, Mail Orders Receive Our Prompt Attention. E BOSS 'AS BEEN AN’ BOUGHT James McCutcheon & ae 5th Ave. & 34th St., N. Y., wat? oO’ THEM OLD MASTERS." “nan! ME GEEVE ME Ze PAIN. ME KNOWS NOSSING OP ART. ME CANNOT TELL ZE MEISSONIFE PROM SJ 7 MAYONNAISE.”