Life, 1913-04-03 · page 8 of 52
Life — April 3, 1913 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This Life magazine page (668) combines historical narrative with period advertising. **Main Content:** The left side features a Civil War story titled "Killed Her Guard and Escaped on the Colonel's Horse"—describing a Confederate woman (Nancy Hart) who allegedly killed a Union soldier and escaped. Below this runs an advertisement for a "Photographic History of the Civil War" book series, with an image of a horse and soldier, offering a May 24th deadline to save $15. **Advertisements:** The right side contains two ads: Harris Oils (lubricants) and "The Lady Burglar" (a satirical piece about female burglars, treating it almost comedically). The page reflects early 20th-century American culture: romanticized Civil War narratives, mail-order book marketing, and contemporary anxieties about women's changing social roles (sardonically presented in the burglar piece). The horse imagery connects the historical and commercial content.
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Killed Her Guard and Escaped on the She had slipped within the Union lines to get information for the Confederacy, only to he caught by Colonel Starr of the Ninth West Virginia. She faced hanging. She was in- spired to desperate action. She watched her guard. At last in the night she caught him unawares, and shot him with his own rifle. ike a flash she was astride the Colonel's horse, and with a clatter of hoofs, was off. She came back later, but not alone. Two Thousands of Long-Lost Photographs A Million PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY oF THe Colonel’s Hors hundred Confederates were at her back. The tables were turned. She and her Confederates rode off with the captured Colonel and his men. Without promise of glory, with the ri of shame and death, this girl, Nancy Hart, w the drama of our Civil War. Her one mo- ment of fear was when she faced the camera that caught her photograph, now shown in the a CIVIL WAR Thousands and thousands of newly dis- covered photographs, thousands of forgotten stories, thousands of faces of men looking out. of the hurly burly of the great conflict—half a thousand ships of war, thousands and thou- sands of dollars of investment, fifty years of Your Last Chance to Save $15 sacrifice and endeavor, one thousand one hun- dred and twenty days of terror and battle, of privation and death—all crammed into the covers of ten tall, superb, luxurious volumes, all yours at much less than the established price, if you are prompt. Send Coupon Today for Samples FREE so that you can get our reply and mail your order on or before May 24th On that day the price of the War Book goes up $15, and the Wanamaker Club closes for ‘ hi good. Now—today—you can have the w ole ten volumes with their thousands and thou- sands of photographs and their vivid story—all for less than it cost Brady to take one photogran This is your last chance. Act now or you will be too late. Send the coupon. It costs nothing; brings you a startling story, dramatically illustrated. BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE—SEND THE COUPON Copyright, 1911 Patriot 1 U8. Co. May 24th Quality, not quantity, is the policy of the A. W. Harris Oil Co. ‘Therefore Harris Oils are.alt iat ication. There is no waste. They are best for your car because they give maximum lubrication, se Harris Oils—prove to your own satisfaction that there is nothing else as good. If your dealer doce not sell Harris Ott, fend ¥O cents for Teal con oF 83.75 foe Seat, can und we willship same prepald. A. W. HARRIS OIL COMPANY f The Lady Burglar WING doubtless to the woman suffrage movement, the number of lady burglars is constantly increas- ing. Formerly they were very rare, but it is now not uncommon to read of their exploits, and inasmuch as they seem to be a large and growing class, some account must be taken of them and proper measures be devised to treat them. It is obvious ¢ one cannot act toward a lady burglar as if she were a mere man. On account of their sex they are entitled to a greater respect, and when one succeeds in taking them off their guard, it is hardly good form to club them over the head or other- wise render them insensible. When you hear a noise downstairs, do not descend in the case of a lady burglar; she is just as liable to hit you as if she were not aiming at you. If you happen to be in bed and she enters the room and covers you with her revolver, always remove your night cap. It is important that you should not lose your sense of pro- priety. Tue Irish car-driver can be compli- mentary when it seems to suit his pur- as getting into a car y in Dublin, and finding it a some- what difficult job, she turned to the driver with the request, “ Help me in, my good man, for I'm very old.” Begorra, ma'm,” was Pat’s gallant reply, “no matter what age you are you don’t look it."—Reprinted from Harvey's “Irish Life and Humor,” by permission of the publishers, Messrs. J. B. Lippin- cott & Co. comicbooks.com