Life, 1913-09-11 · page 27 of 44
Life — September 11, 1913 — page 27: what you’re looking at
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This is a **straightforward product advertisement**, not political satire. It promotes Stag brand smoking tobacco, manufactured by P. Lorillard Company of Jersey City, New Jersey. The ad emphasizes the product's quality ("The high point in tobacco making") and availability in two formats: 90-cent glass humidors and handy 5-cent tins. The imagery shows a decorative tobacco jar and tin package featuring a stag (male deer) as the brand mascot. The tagline "Ever-Lastingly Good" promises product longevity and consistent quality. The ad offers mail-order convenience: if local dealers lack stock, customers could purchase directly for 90 cents via parcel post. This represents typical early-20th-century tobacco marketing, when such products were openly advertised without health warnings in mainstream magazines.
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SMOKING TOBACCO The high point in tobacco making. Sold in the 90 Cent Glass Humidors and handy HALF SIZE 5 Cent Tins. cannot supply you, we will send the pe und 01 cpaid. by parc el post to any addre: the 90 cents. Addres ss'Stag Department, P. Louillard Street, Jers ney City, Ne 2. EVER-LASTING-LY comicbooks:com