Life, 1912-10-24 · page 7 of 48
Life — October 24, 1912 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The dominant content is a full-page advertisement for Philip Morris English Mixture and Cut Plug tobacco products, featuring product images and an endorsement letter from a satisfied customer praising the tobacco quality. The page also contains smaller ads for French Lick Springs railway service and a bridge whist game. The only narrative content is a brief humorous story titled "Saving Bill" about a Kansas philosopher and religious mountain climber debating salvation, followed by "Outline of an Ambassador" — a short anecdote about the Duke of Cleveland. No political cartoons or social satire appear on this page. It represents Life magazine's revenue model: entertainment content subsidizing tobacco and travel advertising.
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ETRE Philip Morris © in Saving Bill , yu Tom MeNeal, the Kansas philosopher, g tells a story of an intensely religious E li h Mi d Cc Kentucky mountaineer who believed that t t Pl _ Bee we ea et ooh nglis ixture an ut Plu ant immersion. He had a bor who didn’t agr with him a ad many , i ee lye ments on the subject. Finally the up- bez ~ holder of immersion told his he Bey be thought it his duty to xo over and save * the unregenerate neighbor, Two hours fi later he returned, and this is what he told his wife: “T says to him, says I: ‘Bill, you hard-headed and pertinacious sinner, do you acknowledge they hain't no such thing as bein’ saved without bein’ dipped?’ An’ he brustles up an’ says: ea *L don't acknowledge nuthin’ of oe kind’ An’ then T says to him: ¢ Bil to I've come over here 10 save you-all’s Ns contrary an’ obdurate soul, which is in n- the gall of bitterness an’ the bonds of 1k an’ I'm goin’ to do it. Air you- all willin’ to be dipped?" st Not on your trifin’, misguided vd life! he says. ‘Then,’ says I, ‘peel your " wammus, Bill, fur this here thi has got to be settled now.’ a “Well, Bill he peeled his wammus d quick cnough, fur I'l say fur him he ain't lackin’ in courage 10 stand up and fight fur a bad cause. We fit, I shud say fur half an hour and tore up consider Le sod. Fur a spell it was nip an’ tuck f between the forces of the Lord an’ them | of Armageddon, but T finally managed 10 foeeea git my thumb inter Bill's c3 k says I: ‘Bill, air yoa-all 1NE ‘of the many enthusiastic en- dorsements of these new smoking tobaccos:— Gentlemen: . . . “I want to say that I have tried your ‘‘English Mixture’’ French Lick Springs. after having tried for years to get the kind of tobacco that I | want, and wish to state that never have I enjoyed a pipe as I have done since trying this good mixture. I tried the famous ; and I don’t know what, but I know that for the rest of my smoking days I shall smoke and enjoy this tobacco.” sa Limi Philip Morris English Mixture and Cut Plug sell for $2.00 a pound The Pennsylvania Limited in $1.00, 50c and 25c tins. Ask your dealer for this today, and Lr. NewYork = = + 10.50A.M. |} learn from experience how much better a smoke it actually makes. | Ly. Hadson Terminal se 10.50 A. M. If the dealer cannot furnish, let us have your remit- Daily service from Pennsylvania Station, New York, by | | Ar. French Lick Springs (next day) 1.10P.M. [| | tance for desired quantity. Accept no substitutes. ; ' . . . j PHILIP MORRIS & COMPANY, Ltd., 402 J West Broadway, N.Y. ] Through sleeping cars to Indian- Canadian Address: 487-J St. Catherine St., East, Montreal. | : : : FACTORIES: New York, Montreal, idon, Cairo, 1 : apolis; parlor car Indianapolis ) . vpkin ad to French Lick Springs. Returning, leave French Lick . . . Lnowledge that dippin’ air essential to hole in the crick, fur when I've saved Springs daily at 1.45 P.M., ar- é rive New York 5.30 P.M. (next eye of yourn?* chances on his . “Bill didn’t say nuthin’ fur a minnit day) with like service. | an’ T shoved my thumb ina little furder. Presently he couldn't stand it no longer Outline of an Ambassador PENNSYLVANIA R R "he up yells: ‘Dippin’ goes with When the Duke de Choiseul, who was o ANe ge! Take your nb outer my a remark looking man, came | : to London to ne a peace, Charles Will you-all be dipped?’ I asked Towns: ked whether the 5 He hesitates an’ I shoves French government had scnt the prelim- thumb in agin an’ then he yells: ‘1 will ! inaries of a treaty An’ so T let him up. An’ now I'm goin’ know, but they have sent the outl: fur the parson an’ take Bill down to the of an ambassador.” tion, or must I gouge out this here a miserable sinner I don't take no * away ning Post. bein answered, “T do not 2035 comicbooks.com