Life, 1912-02-08 · page 39 of 44
Life — February 8, 1912 — page 39: what you’re looking at
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This page contains primarily **automobile and consumer product advertisements** rather than political cartoons. The main content features: **The 1912 Thomas "Six-Forty" automobile** — a luxury car priced at $4,000, advertised with technical specifications boasting superior carburetion and ignition. The ad emphasizes the car's ability to maintain three miles per hour on high gear with seven passengers, presented as a remarkable engineering achievement. **Literary excerpts** appear as filler content, including a passage from Dickens's *Pickwick Papers* about optimism, and another from (likely) Dickens's *Dombey and Son* discussing how clothing and position confer dignity on people. **Supporting advertisements** for cedar chests, auto lamp connectors, and patent services round out the page. This is **advertising-heavy content** typical of *Life* magazine's business model. No political satire or cartoon commentary is present — the page documents early automotive luxury marketing and period attitudes toward status symbols.
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The 1912 Thomas “Six-F orty’ a Ty) A Order Now! Distegat corpertound Predmat venti ‘sd lnteretian booklst,“"The Story of Red Cedar.” All pods ae ty AT VacTORY Prices: FREIGHT PREPAID. 1 DAYSPFREE TRIAL PIEDMONT RED CEDAR CHEST CO., Dept. 74, Statesville. N.C. An Optimist s, sir,” rejoined Mr. Weller. “Wotever is, is right, as the young nobleman sveetly remarked ven they put him down in the pension list, ’cos his mother’s uncle’s vife’s grand- father vunce lit the king’s pipe vith a portable tinder-bo: “Not a bad notion that, Sam,” Mr. Bob Sawyer, approvingly. “ Just what the young nobleman said ev'ry quarter day afterwards for the rest of his life,” replied Mr. Weller. —Pickwick., TOURING CAR, 7 PASSENGERS — PHAETON, 5 PASSENGERS SURREY, 4 PASSENGERS — RUNABOUT 2 PASSENGERS EACH, $4,000 said THOMAS DECLARATIONS No. 5 We assert that the carburetion and ignition of the Thomas Six-Forty is unexcelled in motor car con- struction. With seven passengers aboard it will throttle down on high gear to the remarkably slow speed of three miles per hour. This is on magneto operation and without slipping the clutch. One single mis-fre of a cylinder would stall the motor. Five miles per hour on battery is supposed to be the minimum for cars of the same weight, power and class. Clothes There are some promotions in li which, independent of the more sub- stantial rewards they offer, acquire peculiar value and dignity from the coats and waistcoats connected with “Penflex” Auto Lamp Connectors Never Leak or Break The “Penfiex" Acety lene-Lamp ‘Connec- tor saves the motorist 7 a host of worries. No rub- ber to rot, and crack open. **PENFLEX’? IS A FLEXIBLE BRASS TUBE Light, strong, highly pol- Last forever. Daly atime coe | Tamp. Send 50c. in stamps or money’ order today | 50 cents ~a a pair é Every Motor Car Should Have Them Our Catalog—“ The Story of the Thomas” E. R. THOMAS Motor Car Company, Dept.G. BUFFALO — awaits your request. J PEXNSYLVANTA FLEXIBLE METALLIC TUBING CO. 303 Arch Street, Philadelphia them. A field marshal has his uni- Mrs, Grundy Unconsciously Revealing See EUROPE in an AUTO! free from railway tral B, 5 cr pleat Saye ise ive tee bast Openiand cloead Mater Care for rt Eontineniat Touring atthe moet reanan, Miaeraries, also copy of ‘Through Europe tn an At ce recent Writs th aboat everything 40 wiih Motoring xbroaat he INTERNATIONAL AUTOTRAVEL SOclety. badadiad Morning Post Buildings, Strand, London, England. TENT FEE RETURNED ketch for free search of Patent Office Records. How te ‘#Patent and What tolavent withlist of Inventions wasted , red for Inventions sent free. Patents advertised free. ICTOR J. EVANS & CO., Washington, D.C. SECURED OR form, a bishop his silk apron, a coun- sellor his silk gown, a beadle his cocked hat. Strip the bishop of his apron, or the beadle of his cocked hat and gold lace, what are they? Men—mere men. Dignity, and even holiness, too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. —Oliver 323 Herself “What I want,” Skewton, pinching her shrivelled throat, “is heart.” It was frightfully true in one sense, if not in that in which she used the phrase. ‘“ What I want is frankness, confidence, less conventionality and fr drawled = Mrs.