Life, 1913-12-18 · page 31 of 40
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The dominant content is a large advertisement for **Timken Tapered Roller Bearings**, featuring a technical diagram of transmission components. The ad uses educational copy explaining how proper bearings reduce friction and power loss in automobile transmissions—a straightforward industrial product pitch targeting car owners and mechanics. Below are smaller ads for **Whiting-Adams brushes** (painting and household supplies) and what appears to be a **Cadillac automobile** advertisement with a humorous caption about a college education. The left column contains **Life's Musical Calendar**—listings of December concerts and opera performances at venues like the Metropolitan Opera House and Carnegie Hall, featuring popular classical works and celebrated performers of the era. There is no political cartoon or satirical content on this page. It represents typical early 20th-century magazine content: cultural listings and commercial advertisements.
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Thursday, t December 18, Metropolitan Opera House. econd performance of Rich- $d Strauss’s “ Rosenkavalier ” and the first Toportunity of regular subscribers to hear the much discussed musical comedy. rnegie _Hall.—Beethoven's _“ Eroica™ coeur. with compositions of Bach, Liszt and. Rimsky-Korsakow, presented by the + Philharmonic Orchestra. ‘Aeolian Hall (Afternoon).—Violin recital by Marie Caslova, a youthful prodigy of the Russo-American school. Friday, December 19, Metropolitan Opera Howe (Afternoon).—Russian dancing and Russian tea, served by Anna Paviowa and her company, for the benefit of the Music School Settlement. (Evening)—Puccini's brutal melodrama, “La Tosca”, asa vehicle for the vocal and dramatic art ‘of Miss Farrar, Mr. Scotti and Mr. Caruso. (Afternoon).—Thursday's Philharmonic Halt Cornegic repeated by the programme Society. Saturday, December Metropolitan Opera House (Afternoon).—* Die Walkiice”, Wagner's heroic drama of Germanic myth: ology, with the appropriate voice and figure of Mr. Urlus occupying the centre of the stage. Cornegie Hall (Atternoon).—Concert for Young l’cople, by the choir of St. Bartholo- mew’s Church, assisted by the New York Symphony Orchestra: A programme of Christmas carols and classical compositions for orchestra. Sunday, December 21, Metropolitan Opera House—The conventional Sunday concert, chiely of operatic compositions, with the assistance of an instrumental virtuoso. Century Opera House.—Informal opera on a small scale, adapted to the taste of an uadiscriminating public. Acolien Hall.—Song recital by J. Francis Smith, assisted by the Bohemian Trio and Homer N, Bartlett. Carnegie Hall—Handel's “ Messiah", pre- by the People’s Choral Union, at popular prices. If wear occurs, learing slight space between cup and roller, adjustments can be made by moving the cone in the direction of the arrows. As 1-2 ond 3-4 always remain exactly parallel, the adjustment brings the differ- ent surfaces into perfect lines contact, and no principle of the bearing’s eficiency 13 ime paired, [TS n0t power at the motor, but power where rear wheels touch the ground that makes your motor car go. When the car is running on anything but direct drive there is bound to be some loss of power in the transmission from friction—friction in the bearings and friction between the teeth of the gears. Any good anti-friction bearings, properly mounted and lubricated, almost entirely eliminate bearing friction, Gear’ teeth of the right. shape, if well lubricated, hold gear friction toa minimum providing shafts are in perfect alignment so the teeth mesh perfectly. It is the transmission builder's task to get shafts in line when the transmission is new. Keeping them in line afterward depends largely on the bearings. All bearings wear with use. The slightest bearing wear allows shafts to dropout of line and gears out of perfect mesh. This makes noise and consumes extra power, which is wasted gasoline Timken Tapered Roller Bearings wear, too, although very, very slowly. But when slight wear does come it can, in the Timken, be entirely nm up by a simple adjustment that re-aligns the shafts and puts gear teeth back into correct mesh, reducing the noise. TIMKEN TAPERED ROLLER BEARINGS IN TRANSMISSION SERVICE Let the Power Work for You! And the adjustment—merely moving the cone with its rollers a little farther into the cup—doesn't reduce the efficiency of the Timken Bearing one particle. Its tapered rollers revolve around a cone that has two ribs to keep the rollers always in correct position. The rollers revolve also inside a tapered cup All these surfaces take the slight wear evenly. So, adjustment brings all the parts of the Timken Tapered Roller Bearing into the identical relations that existed when the bearing was first made. The Timkenis the only typeof bearing of which thisistrue. With Timken Adjustable Bearings the trans- mission can be kept tuned up to its top notch efficiency as the car grows old in your service. Tuned up to the point where it continuously transmits the maximum of the engine’s power toward the place, down behind, where that power does useful work for you. Write for the Timken Primers H-9 “On the Care and Character of Bearing: d H-10 “On the Anatomy of Automobile Axle: Sent free, post- paid, on request to either Timken Company. The Timken Roller Bearing Co. Canton, Ohio The Timken-Detroit Axle Co. Detroit, Michigan WHITING-ADAMS CELEBRATED BRUSHES Always Suit — Never Fail Over 10,000 Kinds and Sizes of WHITING-ADAMS Paint, Varnish, Artist, Hair, Toilet, Shaving, House- hold, and other Brushes made, JOHN L. WHITING - J. J. 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