Life, 1912-12-19 · page 36 of 40
Life — December 19, 1912 — page 36: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and entertainment listings**, not political satire. The main content advertises **Buffalo Lithia Springs Water**, a patent medicine claiming to treat Bright's disease, gout, rheumatism, and kidney stones. It features endorsements from medical professionals (Dr. I. N. Love, Dr. J. Allison Hodges) promoting lithia water's effectiveness—typical of early 1900s medical marketing before FDA regulations. Secondary advertisements include **Jaeger's Sanitary Woolen Underwear** (claiming 33 years of medical endorsement) and the **Princess Hotel in Bermuda**. The right column contains "**Life's Musical Calendar**" listing Metropolitan Opera and concert hall performances, and an advertisement for **Cook's Champagne** using a dinner-party illustration. There is **no political cartoon or satire** visible. The page represents routine magazine advertising and entertainment content from approximately 1901.
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first derives its humor from the domes. tic disadvantages of cigarctte smoking and the second from the complications of mistaken identity. Carnegie Hall—Afternoon concert for young people by Ysaye, the violinist A laudable effort to bring young Ameri. The Most Effective of the Natural Mineral Waters, in Bright’s Disease, Albuminuria, Renal Saad” intelligent appreciation of goed Calculi, Gout, Rheumatism, etc. Sunday, December Metropolitan Opera House.—Regula day evening concert, at popular prices, with Mischa Elman, the pyrotechnic violinist, as an added attraction. _— Dr. I. N. Love, New York City, former Professor of Clinical Medicine and Diseases | of Children, College of Physicians and Surgeons and in Marion Sims College of Medicine, ane oraenie Hal if nc wh Lt by St. Louis, Vice-President of American Medical Association, 1895, etc., in an article in Persinger, a_ youn; who is maki Aeolian Hall (Afternoon) by the Balalaika Orchestra. Medical Mirror, February, 1901, says: ‘‘While being the most effective of the natural mineral waters, it is strikingly superior to emergency solutions of lithia tablets and pure water, even where the said solution is an exceed- ingly strong one.” —Concert Dr. J. Allison Hodges, President and Professor of Nervous and Mental Discases,| University College of Medicine, Richmond, Va.; “‘Each year I am more and more| impressed with SPRING No. 2, in the treatment the value of BUFFALO LITHIA WATER, of that class of diseases dependent upon a Uric Acid Diathesis, Rheumatism, Gout, Urinary Calculus,| Vesical Irritations, etc., for I have time and again witnessed its undisputed| efficacy in relieving these cases, and in many instances curing them, by disin- tegrating and eliminating Urinary Calculi when they were present.” Medical testimony on request. For sale by the general drug and mineral water trade. BUFEALO LITHIA SpRINGS WATER CO SPrinas SPRINGS VIRGINIA | | Life’s Musical Calendar Wednesday, December 18, Metropoli- tan Opera House.—Puccini’s Manon Lescaut": An Italian conception of French provincial life, culminating in the tragic death of the heroine in the vast desert of New Orleans. That Little Dinner Carnegie Hall (Afternoon).—Piano- forte recital by Leopold Godowsky, a vir- oe sc tuoso who can play more notes in i Give it the final touch of ele- Woolen. Underwear space of time than anyother gance--prove.ai claim: tocon: : has a world-wide reputa- Aeolian Hall (Afternoon).—A concert noisseurship in wines, (devoid ” tion, acquired strictly on for the benefit of the West Side Day of the poor snobbery of mea ‘i its merits, having stood the ANUESEEY: ithout li ‘ test of 33 years. | It has al (Exening) Mandel’ * Messiah.” pre~ waste without gaining in quality), “ ways carried a guarantee o! sented by a chorus under the direction i pure wool, and is recom- of Walter Henry Hall, with Lilis Hi Blau y serving fo mended by the medical pro- n for its preventive curative properties. for itlastrated ‘end samples Dr-Jaeger’sS.WS.Co.'sOwnStores | New York: 306 Fifth Ave., 22 Maiden Lane Brooklya: S04 Falton St. Boston: 324 Boylston St. Phila: 1516 Chestuct St. Chicage: 126 N State St. Agents in all Principal Cities For a Winter Trip BERMUDA A charming little island world only 48 hours from New York. Climate mild but invigorating. Superb driving, saddle rid- ing. golf, tennis, yachting and sea bathing, The well known PRINCESS HOTEL provides true comfort in full measure: Modern service through out. including electris light, telephones, grill room, tiled awiz- ming pool. Opea December to May HOWE & TWOROGER, Mgrs., HAMILTON, BERMUDA. i velt_ and Putnam Griswold among the soloists. Thursday, December 10, Metropolitan Opera House.—Gluck’s" Orfeo”: Avery old opera, based upon the story of Or- heus and Eurydice, remembered chiefly cause of a single, haunting melody to which the spirits of the blessed dance in ysian Fields. The costumes and are in the style of Puvis de nes’ mural decorations. Carnegie Hall—Concert by the Phil- harmonic Society in memory of Joseph Pulitzer, with Carl Jérn and the male chorus of the Arion Club as additional features. Friday, December 20, Metropolitan Opera House.—Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde”: One of the most popular love stories in the world, set to music, which, for emotional power, has never been sur- passed. Saturday, December 21, BMetrepolitan Opera Hotse.—Matinee. | Double bill: Wolf-Ferrari’s “ Le Secret de Suzanne, followed by Donizetti's “ Don Pasquale.” Two light farce-comedies, of which the 2512 CeeKS Chann pagne Purest of the pure, Ip= over with lift, fragrant of the essence of the grape, with deliciousness, mellow with age. Its price is less than foreign champagnes just the sum that they must pay in duty] and ocean freight. Cook’s makes a banquet of a mere meal. Americas Wise: Coy St. Louis, Mo. =