Life, 1913-05-15 · page 38 of 52
Life — May 15, 1913 — page 38: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising-driven**, with the Texaco Motor Oil ad dominating the left side. The ad uses the Texaco star sign as a roadside guide for motorists seeking reliable garages across America. The right side contains miscellaneous content: a Holland tourism advertisement, and a brief editorial titled "Too Much Competition" **criticizing medical regulation**. The piece argues that regular physicians, lacking confidence in newer alternative medical systems, are lobbying legislators to restrict citizens' access to these practitioners. It's a **free-market argument against medical licensing restrictions**—a debate relevant to early 20th-century America when alternative medicine competed openly with allopathic medicine. Below are brief comic anecdotes and jokes (a prisoner offering to thrash his lawyer, a diplomat joke about memory). These are filler humor typical of Life's satirical format. The page reflects 1920s concerns: automotive expansion, medical freedom debates, and light social satire.
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T INDICATES unfailingly garages where you will receive courteous, efficient service and where you can get Texaco Motor Oil. It blazes| the main highways from Tampa to Bangor; from New York to Phila- delphia, Chicago, St. Louis. From the Mississippi, East, it acts asa friendly, helpful guide, TEXACO | MOTOR OIL and a good garage usually go together. When during long, hard runs have shown an, The Ideal Year to Visit THE PICTURESQUE ‘The Centenary of the Restoration of Holland's Ind; ‘Will be celebrated this summer by Interesting exhibitions and FESTIVITIES IN 30 TOWNS tnctuding the inauguration of the Peaco Palace at The Hague A visit to charming Middelburg, the Gem City of Hollasd, with {ts quaint, old-century manners and customs, should bes, feature of every tour. ‘The quickest route trom England to Holland 1s vis Flosbice, on the new steamers de lu e, est crossing the chazcet | For booklets, timetables and all tnformat! American Agency, Netherland State Railways 1 Route, 334 Fitth Ave., New York. Too Much Competition There are to-day thousands of per- sons in the land on whom the regular physicians had passed the death sen- tence, by diagnosing their trouble as one of the so-called incurable diseases. These invalids later went to some prattitioner belonging to one of the newer schools or systems of cure, and there found abound- ing health. Yet year by year the regular doctors ng the legislatures, ask- ing the people's representatives to pass bills which would take from the citizen the power to seek and find health at the hands of those who are practising the newer and safer modes of cure. Were it not that these doctors do not have confidence in their power to successfully compete with the newer systems at the bedside, there would be no urgent de- mand for this legislation. Medical Freedom. are besi “Tuten you weren't always a black sheep?” “No, mum, I started my career as a Wall Street lamb."—Washington Herald. you find one you find the other. For the garage man who has the interests of his customers at heart gives them the best of everything regard- less of profit or price. entire absence of carbon accumulation. Perfect lubrication is obtained at all times in any type of car. You will find that your gasoline} consumption is reduced from 15 to 30% by the use of Texaco Motor Oil. This means considerable saving in the course af a year. Texaco Motor Oil gives maxin:um power with minimum consumption. Many tests conducted For sale in 1 and $ gallon cans at most good garages and supply shops. For in- structive and interesting booklet, ‘* Maintaining a Motor Car, ** address Dept. 2 West Street, New York City. THE TEXAS COMPANY HOUSTON NEW YORK D, BRANCH OFFICES: Boston St Louis New Orleans Pueblo Phitadetpbia Dallas Worth It | “ Prisoner at the bar,” said the judge, . “is there anything you wish to say be- fore sentence is passed upon you?” “No, my lord, there is nothin’ [ care wut if you'll clear away the tables and chairs for me to thrash my lawyer, you can give me a year or two extra.” —Tit-Bits. Tossty: Pop, what is a diplomat? Toxmy’s Por: A diplomat, my son, is a man who remembers a woman's birth- day, but forgets her age. WHAT 1S IT THAT GOES ON FOUR LEGS IN THE MORNING, TWO LEGS AT NOON, AND THREE LEGS AT NIGHT?’—THERE AIN'T Try One of Our Dry Varieties Martini—Regular Martini—Dry (medium) Martini—Brut (very dry) Manhattan—Regular Manhattan—Dry At all dealers G.F.Heublein Bro. Sole Prop's. Hartford lew York comicbooks.com HOLLAND