Life, 1912-09-19 · page 5 of 44
Life — September 19, 1912 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. It contains four distinct ads: 1. **Kelly-Springfield Automobile Tires** — emphasizes durability from 17 years of experience 2. **AutoStop Safety Razor** — the central ad, featuring a smiling woman demonstrating how the razor "strops itself," guaranteeing 500 shaves at 2 mills each 3. **Surbrug's Arcadia Mixture** tobacco — marketed as luxury pipe tobacco preferred by women 4. **Fortune Teller** — a brief humorous anecdote about a fortune teller arrested in Paris There are no political cartoons or identifiable caricatures. The content reflects early 20th-century consumer advertising and includes period-appropriate gender stereotypes (women being marketed tobacco and razors). The page primarily showcases commercial products typical of *Life* magazine's revenue model.
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LIFE Kell Springfield Automobile Tires The fact that use have been getting more mileage from Kelly - Springfield Tires is due to our seventeen years of experience plus our anxiety to make good tires. KELLY-SPRINGFIELD TIRE CO. 20 Vesey Street, New York Philadelphia, Boston, Appel & Burw Bering Tire & Rubber Co, Todd Itubber Co., New Pride The following ancedote helps to prove that, even among the present Greeks, in the gloomy days of servitude, the re membrance of their ancient glory is not totally extinet : When Mr. Anson (Lord Anson's broth- er) was upon his travels in the East, he hired a vessel to visit the Isle of Tene- dos. His pilot, an old Greek, as they were sailing along, said, with some satis- faction, “There it was our flect lay Mr. Anson demanded “What fleet?” What fleet!" replied the old man, a tle piqued at the question; “ why, our Grecian flect at the siege of Troy.” ARCADIA MIXTURE Its aromatic delicacy will surprise you. It is the most perfect blend of tobacco you ever put in your pipe—the highest class—it stands all by inscll, the KING of mixtures. A tobacco that your women folks will like to have you smoke at home—You may never have known the luxury of a pipe smoke before. Send 10 Cents vii). THE SURBRUG CO., 204 Broadway, New York 500 Shaves (2 Mills per Shave) Guaranteed ‘ACH package of AutoStrop blades is guaranteed to give 500 head barber shaves. If you fail to et 500, send us your 12 used blades, say how many shaves you are shy, and we will send you enough of the blades to make good your shortage. The era of Guaranteed Shaving is here. WE ARE IN THE BLADE SAVING BUSINESS. HE AutoStrop Razor is not a perpetual blade tax. It is a blade saver and head barber shaver. Why we can make the above guarantee is very simple: Heart beats are the life of a human being. Expert strokes on the strop are the life of a razor edge. By expert strokes on the strop, the head barber and the AutoStrop Razor make their respective edges live sharp through many shaves— often one blade will live through 500 shaves, ‘Therefore 12 blades are certain to live through our guarantee. AutoStropping is the twin brother of Head Barber stropping makes the novice able to strop the Head Barber's edge, and makes him able to strop it 2s quickly and handily, because he docs it with ‘out detaching blade. ‘The AutoStrop razor consists of silver plated, self-stropping razor, 12 blades and strop in handsome case. Price $5. Travelling sets $6.50 up. Price in Canada and United States the same. Factories in both countries, Send for catalogue. Do not be over-modest about asking the dealer to sell you an AutoStrop Razor on thirty days’ free trial. For if you take it back we protect him from loss, Get a blade~saving, head barber -shaving AutoStrop Razor today. Do not forget it tomorrow. AUTOSTROP SAFETY RAZOR CO..368 Sth Ave., New York: Richmond St., W., Toronto; 61 New Oxford St., London; chleusenbriicke, No. 8, Hamburg FO OR AZ Itself This wooden man is used in AutoStrop win- dow displays. He shows you how to strop AutoStrop blades to Head Barber edges. If a wooden man can do it, you can. hing.” Fortune Teller ete! ‘ott will sequit me A fortune teller was arrested at his here: theatre of divination, al fresco, at the corner of the Rue de Bussy in Paris, and carried before the tribunal of correc- tional polic the future great wit, bit too fond of a joke for a Tyvatip: magistratc. “I do, M. le President,” re- nerves? plied the sorcerer. “In this case,” said the judge, “ intend to pronour “Well what will happen to you?” “You know how to read said the president, a man of you know the judgment we It is. “ Certainly.” 1797 “You are sure of it?” “ Acquit you is no doubt of it.” “Wh . sir, if it had been your inten- tion to condemn me, you would not have added irony to misfortune.” He was acquitted Is this a yood place for Proprietor or tite Heat Resort Why, when I opened up here I only charged $2.50 a d got the nerve to charge $5.—Tit-Bits. and now I've comicbooks.com