Life, 1913-03-27 · page 49 of 60
Life — March 27, 1913 — page 49: what you’re looking at
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This Life magazine page contains three distinct pieces: 1. **Woodbury's Facial Soap Advertisement**: A typical early-20th-century beauty ad promoting skin care with claims about pore cleansing and refreshing winter-damaged skin. Standard marketing language of the era. 2. **"Wanted—A Pretext"**: A short satirical piece criticizing coal industry pricing practices. It mocks how coal companies use minor excuses (shortages, cold weather) to raise prices but refuse to lower them when conditions improve (surplus coal during warm January/February). This reflects contemporary frustration with monopolistic business practices during the Progressive Era. 3. **Timken Bearings Advertisement**: An industrial ad posed as educational content, using rhetorical questions about automotive bearings' durability and efficiency to promote Timken products as essential for reliable cars. The page primarily functions as advertising wrapped around light social satire about business manipulation.
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ag | oh og Fall below end you cam keep your skin s0 that you can always be proud of it. Examine your the treatment skin closely See if the pores have become large and clogged: If it has lost its smoothness: if it has grown colorless. ‘These conditions of the skin are a natural result of the constant strain imposed upon it during the winter months, when we eat heavy foods and take almost no exercise. Each Spring the skin needs refreshing. How to refresh you skin Wash your face with care and take plenty of time todo it.” Lather freely with Woodbury's Facial Soap and rubin gently till the ski ftened and the pores is open. Then rinse several times in very cold water, or better still, rub with a lump of ice. Woodbury's Facial Soap is the work of an authority on the skin and its needs. This treatment with Wood- bury’s cleanses the pores, then closes them and brings the blood to the surface. You feel the difference the first time you use it. Woodbury's Facial Soap costs 25c a cake. No one hesitates at the price after their first cake. Go to your dealer's today and get acake. Tear off the illustration of the cake shown below and put it in your purse as a reminder. Woodbury’s Facial Soap For sale by dealers throughout the United States and Canada Write today for samples eNO UN REE) baa PIS. For 4c we will send a sample cake. os , For 10¢ samples of Woodbury's Facial Soap. Facial Cream and Facial | Powder. Write today to the Andrew A} Jertens Co., Dept. K-3, Spring Grove ‘Ase., Cincinnati, Ohio, or to the An- drew Jergens Lid., Dept. K-3 Perth, Ontario, Canada Wanted—A Pretext There are many slight and shallow Pretexts upon which the price of coal can be induced to rise. When the said price is feeling ambitious, almost any little excuse will do, such as a short- real or alleged; a threatened an imaginary increase in the cost of mining and hauling, an unusual cold spell, a desire for dividends and so forth. But we still stand in need of a pretext which will warrant the price of coal in going down occasion- ally, Some of us thought we had found that pretext the other day when it was discovered that, on account of the prolonged warm weather in Jan- uary and February, there was a great surplus of coal on hand. A few of the more reckless spirits among us even had the temerity to bring the matter to the attention of the coal trust, but, alas, while the coal barons were polite and sympathetic, they could not see the logic of the suggestion. More Respectful A story about Charles M. Schwab has been going the rounds of Wall Strect. Mr. Schwab, who is very fond of farce comedy, one day bade his sccretary get him two tickets for “ Charlie's Aun The sceretary summoned a “Go ‘round to the theatre and get two tickets for * Char please. The page hesitated and said: “But hadn't I better say Mr, Schwab's aunt, sir? "—IWashington Star. Timken To- gered Roller Bearings onthe spindleofa Timken-Detroit Front Axle for Pleasure Car. T give full efficiency ? How long will they carry the weight of car and load, meet the hammer blows from jolts over rough city pavements and car tracks, from deep-rutted country roads? How long will they keep shafts in alignment, keep gears in correct mesh, hold friction down to near nothing—save power ? These questions strike the root of the economy, the satisfaction and the safety of year after year operation of your motor-car. The Timken Tapered Roller Bearing is the one ani whose principles of design enable the effect of wear to be wholly eliminated by adjustment without the least sacrifice of its efficiency. Because it is adjustable perfectly for wear; because the line contact of its rollers enables it to support greater load and stand greater shocks; because its tapered construction enables it to meet end-pressure as well as verticall oad—The Timken Tapered Roller Bearing is found in the wheels of the great majority of American motor-cars, both pleasure and commer- cial, and in many leading foreign cars as well. # The life-time efficiency of the Timken Roller Bearing is also one of the fundamental reasons for the success and wide adoption of Timken-Detroit ales, It will pay you to learn more about these essential parts of the car— bearings and axles. You can do so by sending for the Timken Primers H-S, on Bearings: H-6, on Axles. Sent free postpaid on request to either address below. "Write today. THE TIMKEN ROLLER BEARING CO. We ‘Canton, Ohio THE TIMKEN -DETROIT AXLE CO. HHROUGH how many miles of road service will the bearings in your car stand up—and iction bearing Detroit, Mich. comicbooks.com