Life, 1913-05-29 · page 35 of 44
Life — May 29, 1913 — page 35: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The dominant content is a full-page advertisement for Elgin watches, celebrating 20 million units sold over fifty years. The ad emphasizes reliability and durability—watches serving "two generations" and functioning in harsh climates—positioning Elgin as the trustworthy choice for working men. The smaller cartoons on the left appear to be generic humor: one shows a woman surrounded by children labeled "Every Little Bit" (likely about thrift during economically tight times), and another depicts someone drowning in money ("Makes Just a Little Bit More"), suggesting financial struggle. The remaining space contains various product advertisements (stockings, dental cream, a sexology book) and miscellaneous content like a desert anecdote and a riddle. **No clear political message** is present; this reflects typical early-20th-century magazine layout mixing commerce with light entertainment.
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IKILGINS Tea million Elgins made and sold in fifty years! Now being produced at the rate of 3000 daily! Keeping in full-capacity operation the world’s biggest watch works! Shipped to all parts of the world where time is measured ! Dependability has done this. Many of the first Elgins are yet in constant tse—keeping every minute with Elgin faith- fulness. Many have served two generations. Followers of every occupation have found them true. Rigorous tests of climate and service have added proofs of Elgin stamina. LORD ELGIN, here illustrated, is the consummation of all this experience, all this skill and all these facilities. It is the watch for lifetime service. It is the cor- rect model for masterful men. It is the thinnest watch made in America with an enamel dial. Forty thousand leading jewelers of America—in every towa and city—display, endorse and sell Lord Elgins. oxveae These jewelers are Elgineers—masters of MAKES JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE watchcraft. They know good watches. Let your local Elgineer show you Lord Elgins and demonstrate their supremacy. He will also show you the G. M. Wheeler, a sturdy watch for men of rugged occupations. ELGIN NATIONAL WATCH CO. Elgin, Illinois STOCKINGS EXCLUSIVELY | ————— Send for our new | i . booklet,illustrating | Equally Distant many new styles. | 2.00 for this*‘Iey”pat- | Mojave way this summer, we stopped to relation to life and beaith, tern. Many other hand- ask a drink of a forlorn homesteader on Tals engredee, does, wat some hand embroidered | nor correctly from ordinary, patterns at this special every day sources. ‘Black or colors, elit barrel of warm, acrid liquid. SEXOLOGY - Ht “Where do you get your water?” we (UMustrated) . by IVitiam H. Walling, A.M., M.D, imparts in a clear, “In town at the railroad tank." wholesoine way in one vol | largely on @ knowl- While jaunting through the desert out | of the whole truth a desert claim. He supplied us from a inquired. “How far Six miles. “Why don’t you dig a well for it?” “ Same distance and harder work.” —Harper’s Magazine. ———_— Tomy: Pa, what is the fourth di- BE YOUR OWN DENTIST FF TO! secant FILL YOUR OWN TEETH DEN oO fi Farner: Th ne that fits every fash- eit B3t 1a tooth. ait mouth with cold water and tooth ta tn-| cvtmonouen PARISIAN PHOTOS FROM LIFE! fae SE ENTO forms an amalgam. Its action ts mar- ion; your mother has it. Superb selections by letterpost, $1, $: (Dollar bills or SUBLITHCUERICLL COx tito Ceraastarn Aven Paladctpbin, Pa, —New York Sun, KATIE O'CONNOR, Bo Roc de Veulls PARIS Frgace’ (Pietra comicbooks.com