Life, 1912-08-08 · page 34 of 40
Life — August 8, 1912 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct elements: **Advertisements:** The top features a "Basline Autowline" (a steel rope towline for automobiles) and a large Budweiser beer ad claiming 173+ million bottles sold in 1911—typical early 1900s product marketing. **"Mother Was Puzzled" Anecdote:** A brief humorous domestic scene where a wife tells her husband the baby cried because she ate too many strawberries. The joke plays on the husband's concern and the mother's matter-of-fact response—light satire of office-worker domesticity. **"From Our Readers" Letters Section:** Readers debate the 1912 presidential election between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. One letter defends Roosevelt despite his personal flaws, arguing voters should support candidates based on principles (good government) rather than personality. Another anecdote mocks a Kentucky mountaineer bewildered by an automobile's speed—rural/urban cultural divide humor common to the era. The page reflects early 20th-century American concerns: automobile safety, politics, and rural-urban contrasts.
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| FOR YOUR AUTOMOBILE Pelee tes You cannot ride any place in safety—much less tour with- out a towline. Buy neat, compact A man who has an office downtown ” called his wife by telephone the other “BASLINE AUTOWLINE morning and during the conversation —for $3.75 at any good auto supply dealer's, Thirty fect of asked what the baby was doing. 5/16 inch flexible stecl rope. Coils up flat under any cushion. “She was erying her eyes out,” replied ‘Autowline weighs only 6 Ibs., but it has an approximate strength ihe-mother. of 7000 Ibs. It stood every test on the last Glidden Tour— What about?” Us q also delivered t the goods on Coast to Coast Tour. sa apelae Se utowline circular explains the whole matter he ae a I esate ‘~ -*, in pictures. Write for it today. Sent free. she has eaten too many strawberries or BRODERICK & BASCOM ROPE CO., St. Louis, Mo. pecnaee She ernie “mare, senyes ne 809|Narth 'Second’Se. discouraged mother.—/ndianapolis News. The Little Steel Rope with the Big Pull. ASR ANTARA AG 1H From Our Readers (Concluded from page 1569) old Bill forced over the line among the hosses and the machine politicians as their representative? Wouldn't Roosevelt's victory have meant the victory of popular rights: didn't Tait’s victory mean their defeat. You may say the Colonel is the bis gest “boss” of all—true; but he bosses, doesn’t he, for the things that all right- minded people want? There is a great deal of talk against Roosevelt as an in- dividual, his bumptiousness, noisiness, egotism, ete. Shouldn't a public man be regarded for the principles he stands for, not for the idiosyncracies of his charac- ter? Personally I don’t want Roosevelt for President again if it can be helped—not because I fear another Diaz, but because he represents the danger of replacing devotion to principle by devotion to per- sonality. But when Roosevelt stands for good government—and Taft or any other opponent for bad government—I say boost for Teddy and lambast the other e side. | The dangers that Teddy represented SS ae ai Chicago were less, to my mind, than the dangers represented by Barnes, Pen- rose, ef al. Shouldn't we fight the i: areater danger? | The World’s Favorite Bottled Beer Very truly, Rost. W. Runt Meproxp, Oxecon, tay 18 What made it so?— The Force of Momentum The old mountaineer, who was stand- gn eee QUALITY and PURI 2 certain little Kentucky town, had never > seen an automobile. When a good-sized touring car came rushing up the street 2 arte rear tie ear lee 173,184. ottles sold in 1911. down just enough to take the corner on 2 2 two wheels, his astonishment was ex- trem | Bottled only at the The old fellow watched the disappear- : : ing car with bulging eyes and open Home Plant in St. Louis mouth. Then, turning to a bystander, he remarked solemnly : TTR hefate coud, ANOVA BEE Anheuser-Busch Brewery traveling some when they got loose from that gen'leman’s carriage!" St. Louis, Mo. —Youth's Companion. comicbootie ™