Life, 1913-05-15 · page 44 of 52
Life — May 15, 1913 — page 44: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Life magazine, with one notable **political satire** piece embedded among the ads. The main satirical content appears in the "Ice at Cost" column (bottom right). It mocks "Progressive" New York legislators who proposed selling city-supplied ice at cost-based prices. The satire argues this is "revolutionary" and complains that ice's purpose is to command the highest possible price—not serve the public efficiently. This represents **anti-Progressive ideology**: the piece defends profit-maximization and suggests helping ordinary people conflicts with business interests and the wealthy "dividend-gatherers" who deserve deference. The surrounding advertisements (Nabisco wafers, Autowline rope, vacation resorts, garages) are typical period marketing, though the "Private Garages $30 and Up" ad reflects early automotive culture. The page reflects early 20th-century class tensions between Progressive reform efforts and conservative business defenders.
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Motor Now in Safety Buy neat, compact Autowline and beready to tower be towed when road trouble: | comes. It's 25 ft. of finest flexible steel rope. ; hs only § pounds but can pull a 6000 \ 119 pound car. Autowline has stood every severe i touring test for years. 1 | BASLINE AUTOWLINE NAB | Ss Cc Bo 1 Made of World-Famous Yellow Strand Wire Rope i Big, bulky manila towtine solls and crowda a car. But Baslioe Autow- ling takes up practically no space Sugar Wafers ain is Convenient in form, attractive in appearance, deliciously sweet, delightful in flavor and good- ness. These are ths attributes that make Nabisco Sugar Wafers the most tempting of dessert confections, In ten-cent tins; also in twenty-five-cent tins, ADORA:—The newest dessert confection—a filled sugar wafer—enticingly sweet. YESTINO: — An almond-shaped des sert confection with the most ex- f “ of cost, suffering or other sentimental quisite of creamy centers. % 2 = Fi CHOCOLATE TOKENS: consideration. The trouble in_ this A delectable confection we yi P A delectable contec “4 Ss : . country is that the needs of the people rich ~ are coming to interfere too much with chocolate. business. If this tendency keeps up, it ff : , is sure to drive some of our most re- . spected dividend-gatherers to work, and then we shall be unable to look up to them any more. Would it not be better to let the people swelter? NATIONAL Literary success of any enduring kind is made only by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to. write what the public want, by refusing to accept any popular standard, by refusing to write anything to order. I grant it is not the way to make money quickly, but it is the way—and the only way— to win what sincerity in literary effort ought to obtain. BUOCKWOOD INN ‘Private Garages Opens June 7th = Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pa. = FIREPROOF Two hours from N. Y.—D. L. & W. R. R. Three hours from Phila.—Trentgn Div, Penn. R. R. $30 and Up Home of the Shawnee Country Club and it HOWARD M. WING. Manager. For Automobiles and M wats GOLF COURSE xe Vieonie sarin ae Wwrteuataeraivend matter our eactine anise vl atere a most astonishingly low, direct-from-factory price on an Fawards = — ——_—— Behe Brepron. pot steel Garage of the size you'll need, pe Spend Your Vacation on Ice at Cost . Quaint Cape Cod “PROGRESSIVE members of the Seashore, Woods and Coustry. Splendid fishin Legislature,” says a dispatch yachting, bathiog and golfing. Cool breezes always. from Albany, “have prepared a bill Send for “Quaint Cape Cod.” It’s free under which New York City could ac- ADVERTISING BUREAU, quire a supply of ice and then sell it Room 900, South Station, Boston, ata reasonable price based upon the NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD R. R. cost.” = Isn't that a bit revolutionary? Ice ‘Ze Underground Garbage Receiver] at cost! What has ice to do with cost? rn fees NO FLIES, NOLITTER, NO ODORS The object of ice is to command the Seen WE te tacks eet vOccuber reersioert ceeeree | very highest possible price regardless rN ‘“ rar St., Lyno, Mi comicbooks.com