Life, 1913-01-02 · page 35 of 44
Life — January 2, 1913 — page 35: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes editorial content with advertisements, lacking a traditional political cartoon. The main article, "Speaking of Birthdays," celebrates the Pennsylvania Limited train's 30-year anniversary, comparing it favorably to LIFE magazine's own founding period. It praises the train's reliability and modern amenities. The secondary article, "Making Law-Abiding Citizens Law Breakers," argues against proposed legislation restricting alternative medicine practitioners. The author contends that sick people desperate for cures would break laws prohibiting non-traditional doctors, making such legislation immoral. This reflects early 20th-century debates over medical licensing and the legitimacy of alternative healing methods. The advertisements (Jaeger sanitary goods, Dr. Jaeger's sleeping products) occupy significant space, typical for this era's magazines. A small cartoon at page bottom shows a snail with a car, likely a joke about slowness versus speed—fitting a transportation-themed page.
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WHAT IT IS. WHAT IT MEANS By JOHN BARRETT Director General of the Making Law-Abiding Citizens Law Breakers There are to-day millions of intelli- gent American citizens who have lost confidence in the so-called old school doctors, chiefly as a result of the signal Speaking of Birthdays The first real limited train, The Pennsylvania Limited, between New York and Chicago, came into existence in the same period that LIFE commenced its merry race. It has been performing its daily service to the public with promptness and regularity for thirty years, improving each year in all the appointments that make for popularity. It is more popular now than at failure of these physicians to cure them. A large number of these persons had received the death sentence from the tion. allopathic doctors, who had pronounced | them suffering from one of the so-called incurable diseases. In the hour of their despair, they turned to one of the newer schools or methods of cure and found health, happiness and added years of useful’ service. Now largely because of their failure and of the success of the newer systems, Y the privilege-seeking political doctors, any time within its three decades of successful opera- It is particularly attractive to ladies and chil- dren on account of the special features provided for their accommodation. There are other trains with all the limited feat- ures, notably the Broadway Limited—zo hours be- tween New York and Chicago—the Chicago Limited, the 24-Hour St. Louis. Every one of these trains is an example of the highest advancement made in dinary, } from the Atlantic to the Pacific, are to- . clear, day demanding legislation that will take from these people the right and the power longer legally to employ the suc- cessful practitioners. Such legislation transportation in thirty years. All of these Pennsylvania Railroad limited trains leave from and arrive at Pennsylvania Station, 7th Avenue and 32nd Street, New York, one block from Broadway—a station which holds the admiration of or with open windows 7 7 use JAEGER Camelhair the world Blankets, or a JAEGER Patented’ Sleeping Bag. Also get JAEGER Night- shirts or Pajamas and complete your outfit with | || See —= a pair of JAEGER Bedsocks would inevitably make law-loving citi- and a sleeping Hood. zens law-breaking citizens, for man's Nothing like it for per- health is something so intimate and “fect comfort and invig- / [fj precious to him that if such laws were oration. passed and he fell sick, he would most Booklet and sam- certainly try to obtain relief from the ples on request practitioner who had cured him, rather than go to the legally protected doctors who had failed to give him relief. Now any legislation that makes law-abiding DrJaeger'sS.W.S.Co.sOwnStores New York: 306 Filth Ave., 22 Maiden tise Phila. 18 Chasen 3 Cites 120 Sate St. citizens law-breaking citizens is im- moral legislation and inimical to the spirit of free institutions, of justice, and of human rights.—Medical Freedom, Agents in all Principal Cities “yimMy swait, you've RUNNING WITM THAT FAST CROWD!" 35 comicbooks.com