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Life — December 14, 1911 — page 5: Life, 1911-12-14

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This page is **primarily advertising** for Victor-Victrola phonographs, not political satire. The small cartoon in the upper left ("Holding the World's Record") shows a child reading a "History of the World" book while sitting on what appears to be a stack of records—a gentle visual pun suggesting phonograph records as a form of cultural knowledge or entertainment dominance. The main content celebrates the Victrola's ability to bring famous opera singers (Caruso, Melba) and orchestras into homes at various price points ($15-$250). The advertising emphasizes music as an essential home luxury. The remaining left-side content advertises Club Cocktails and The Wall Street Journal—unrelated products typical of magazine advertising from this era. There is no significant political commentary on this page.

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-LIFE- HOLDING THE WORLD'S RECOKD Good Business, Anyway When that Medical Trust gets full control we shall all be so well vacci- sated, so chock full of serum, that it rally won't’ matter very much what new diseases we acquire. And there will be a lot of new ones. The serum ex- perts are making them every day, over re in the Halls of Agony. But the main object of the trust is to put rivals oot of business. They frankly admit their intention of demolishing all fakirs —osteopaths, homcopaths, mental and Christian Scientists and healers of all new schools. It is to be drugs or death often both. TEST FOR YOURSELF Mix the best cocktail you know how—test it side by side with a Club Cocktail No matter how good a Cocktai youmake you will notice a smooth- ness and mellowness in the Club Cocktail that your own lacks. Club Cocktails after accurate blending of choice liquors obtain their delicious flavor and delicate troma by ageing in wood before bottling. A new cocktail can tever have the flavor of an aged cocktail jettan, Martini and other rd blends, bottled, ready jerve through cracked ice. Refuse Substitutes AT ALL DEALERS GF. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Ps Hartford New York” London” MALiterne was vei articular with the letters he wrote, re ing and copy- ing them several times before sending felt he must write a letter of condolence ictor-Victr With a Victor-Victrola as low as $15 and others gradually ranging up to the magnificent Victor-Victrola at $250, why should you longer deny yourself the pleas- ure that comes from their possession ? When these wonderful instruments bring right into your home a wealth of the world’s best music, fairly dazzling in the Victor-Victrola IV Oak $ wideness of its scope and the array of Victor-Victrola VI, $25 talented artists interpreting it, you surely Victor-Victrola VIL, $40 don’t want to deprive your family of this Victor-Victrola IX, $50 great pleasure! The pleasure of hearing Victor-Victrola X, $75 such famous grand opera stars as Caruso, Victor-Victrola XI, $100 Melba, Tetrazzini; such eminent instru- Victor-Victrola XIV, $150 mentalists as Paderewski, Mischa Elman, Maud Powell; such noted vaudeville “head- liners” as Harry Lauder, Blanche Ring, Victors $10 to $100 Victor-Victrola XVI Circassian walnut $250 George M. Cohan; such celebrated musical stahogany or quarteredoak $200 organizations as Sousa’s Band, Pryor's Band, Victor Herbert's Orchestra! Whether the home actually feels the need of music, or whether it is already gay with melody, no home can afford to be without the exquisite music produced by this greatest of all musical instruments. Hearing is believing. © to any Victor dealer’s and hear your favorite selections. Victor Talking Machine Co, Camden, N. J., U.S. A. Hertiner Gramophone Co, Montreal, Canadian Distributors Always use Victor Records played with Victor Needies— there is no other way to get the unequaled Victor tone. New Victor Records are on sal. A friend of his having died, he lers on the 28th of each month A Sound Reason A certain Mr. his trial at the Old Bailey for high trea- Thelwall, who was on son, during the evidence for the prose- and sympathy to the widow. He at once culion: wrote the fallowiag séte and seat began a sketch of the letter, but after it to his counsel: “Mr. Erskine, I am several copics was not pleased with the determined to plead my cause myself.” composition. He left it for some other Mr. E. wrote under it, “Ifyou do, day. Every two or three 's found you will be hanged,” him composing a fresh epistle. When To which T. immediately returned this reply: “I'll be hanged if T do.” INVESTORS READ The Wall Street Journal the letter was finally ready to be sent the widow had remarried. 1079 comicbooks.com