Life, 1913-06-12 · page 35 of 44
Life — June 12, 1913 — page 35: what you’re looking at
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This page contains primarily **advertising and brief satirical commentary** rather than a formal cartoon. The main editorial content is "The Passing of Lynching," which reports factually that lynchings in the United States have declined to their lowest number in 28 years—only 64 the prior year. The piece sardonically notes that Southern writers who praised lynching as "a good thing" should logically welcome its decline, then pointedly states "Something ought to be done about it"—suggesting the practice should be actively eliminated rather than merely declining naturally. The page also includes anti-vivisection advocacy (animal testing criticism) and numerous period advertisements: Everett Pianos, P.A. tobacco ("Prince Albert"), Cortez Cigars, and a law school correspondence course. The silhouette illustration accompanying the P.A. tobacco ad is a generic smoking figure, not a specific caricature or political reference—it's simply product marketing common to early 20th-century advertising.
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