Life, 1913-03-27 · page 48 of 60
Life — March 27, 1913 — page 48: what you’re looking at
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This page contains **primarily advertisements and humor pieces** rather than political satire. The main content advertises the **North East Electric Starting and Lighting System** for automobiles, emphasizing its simplicity, efficiency, and economy—typical early automotive marketing. The humor pieces are light social comedy: - **"A Cannibal's Dish"** jokes about an elderly English visitor's shock at "Baked Indian pudding" on an American hotel menu—a play on words treating the unfamiliar dish as potentially cannibalistic. - **"A Cannibal's Dish" (bottom)** features a brief exchange between an officer and a striker, with working-class humor about workhouse conditions. There's also an **editorial column "Speaking of Trusts"** criticizing medical practitioners and osteopaths as "incompetents and fakirs," advocating for federal health regulation. This reflects Progressive Era skepticism toward unregulated alternative medicine. The **Hunter Baltimore Rye advertisement** appears at bottom—alcohol marketing typical of the pre-Prohibition era. This is a commercial magazine page mixing product ads with genteel period humor and mild social commentary.
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Some Good Laughs For Your Dinner Party “HOW TO BEHAVE AT A BANQUET”* brings chuckles of laughter from the most sedate. There won't be any dull moments at your dinner party if you have these little books as place- favors Bound in a real old fashioned fringed napkin, 30e. each, postpatd, or $3.00 a dozen at pour \ Statloner's: tt he hasn't North East . them, send diccet to Motor Generator The A. M. Davis Co. 701 Rowla Bhtg. Boston, Mars. North East North East {if we Darke Guan Corts soecih The Noiseless Stertiog Seite North East Speaking of T Electric Starting and Lighting Syaear ( ra = | The American Metical Associn tion has, as a machine, bee fie Combines Simplicity, Efficiency and Economy Heme paweriat te ceca ne pressive legit ion—or legislation SIMPLICITY—because there is nothing complicated to get out of which handicapped other schools order: merely a single machine—a motor-generator all in one—compri in practically every State in| the a simple armature with one winding and one commutator, such a Uniom,, ut, 4 Oo of (helt © ole f to every amateur electrician; and an automatic gear device to eae stated, ie found these laws change from motor to generator with the starting of the engine. Has oi secueeee They nae thee fewer parts than any other system, is entirely free from contact troubles, Peat tite te he: Federal Govene. and cannot be disarranged from the driver's seat. because, jother doctor EFFICIENCY—because it has more power per unit of weight than eh a ae eee any other electric starter, and will turn over the largest engines used in tuent’ might be able todo ia ceush biles, starting them under the most adverse climatic condition ing. out’ Cheistiaa, Science, osteo. automobiles, s' i Sy ing out Christ Science, osteo- and with the least current consumption from the battery. pathy and other incompetents and ECONOMY—because there is no expense for upkeep or repairs, And fakirs . , because low current consumption means longer life for the battery. Well, well! So those practitioners who cure by other means than drugs The North East System cannot be installed on cars now in use. You ‘ S can secure its advantages, however, by specifying are “incompetents and fakirs”? The worst of it all is, the “incom- A North East System for Your New Car petents and fakirs” are rapidly in- creasing, not only in numbers, but in The North East popularity, : : Hence a National Bureau of Health Electric Company oe —alias the Medical Trust—for seli- 35 Whitney St., NA tH protection. x L Re ene < Ss Sone religions require to be wound up every seven days. A Cannibal’s Dish “My ‘dear, Naten to this, and tell me THE HOSPITALITY AND GOOD CHEER OF A DISCRIM- what you make of it!” exclaimed the INATING HOST OR HOSTESS SHOULD INCLUDE elderly English lady to her husband, on her first visit to the States. She held the hotel menu almost at arm’s length, and spoke in a tone of horror. “* Baked Indian pudding!’ Can it be possible in a civilized country?” —Youth’s Companion. : R FE Orricer: Now you git out o’ here, " young lady, or you'll land in the work- house! Starker: I ain't afi of the work- cole St A Sorca ooten and by Sopbers” house—I've been in a workhouse ever since I started to work! —The Masses, comicbooks.com