Life, 1912-12-26 · page 6 of 41
Life — December 26, 1912 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains primarily **advertising content** rather than political satire. The left side features a Martin & Martin bootmakers advertisement for hand-sewn shoes ($7.50+), emphasizing quality craftsmanship and comfort. The right side advertises LIFE's Christmas subscription offer, including a free reproduction of "Bygones" by Angus McConnell. Below this is a humorous cartoon captioned "SANTA CLAUS LEFT SOMETHING, BUT NOT WHAT WAS EXPECTED," depicting Santa apparently stuck in a chimney with comedic consequences—likely referring to the common Christmas Eve scenario of Santa's mishap. This is gentle holiday humor rather than political commentary. The page reflects early 20th-century commercial advertising and seasonal entertainment typical of LIFE magazine's content.
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SRIEF: HAT custom-made look, feel, wear and worth of Martin & Martin Hand-Sewed Shoes, can never be gotten except through cus- tom processes. ARTI ARTI BOOTMAKERS FOR MEN & WOMEN offer you Shoes, which, in quality and correctness, easily prove themselves the finest ready-to-put-on footwear in the World. The selected leathers—the long-time tanning—the lasts with their beautiful soft lines—the cutting—fitting—lasting and sewing, all by Hand—these are the reasons why this is so. Comparisons with Shoes of ordinary making, will easily convince you, while the feeling of perfect ease in walking, the freedom from burning, and_ solid comfort when standing, more than war- rant the price we ask for them. $7.50 upward the pair. At our Bootshops may be seen a com- plete line of Thomas Cort Fashionable Hand-Sewed Shoes. Custom depart- ment in connection. Write for Style Brochure, showing photographs of the latest authentic models for Street, Dress and Sporting Wear, with particulars of unique Shoe-Service-by-Post. MARTIN & MARTIN Bootmakers for Men and Women New York: 1 East 3sch St Chicago: 326 So. Michigan Ave. Paris: Bouladou, 39 Rue de Chaillot. OF CHRISTMAS INTEREST LIFE'S Special Offer Cone. Tite Pab. Co. “Bygones” (By Angus MacDonally This Picture Free with Each Yearly Subscription A reproduction of this picture, 93 by 15 inches in size, on paper 15 by 20, will be sent on cach yearly subscription entered this season, A subscription to LIFE is the best possible Christmas or birthday gift—a copy of LIFE every week, fifty-two presents a year, and this picture for Five Dollars, the regular subscription price.* LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West 31st Street, New York *Subscription, $5.00 Canadian, $5.52 comicbooketom Foreign, $6.04