Life — January 1, 1914 — page 5: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Kelly-Springfield Automobile Tires Advertisement This page is primarily a **product advertisement**, not political satire. It promotes Kelly-Springfield brand automobile tires, manufactured hand-made and sold through the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. in New York. The ad's humor employs a gentle jab at consumer behavior: "Sometimes it takes months, sometimes even years, for a motorist to come around to buying Kelly-Springfield Tires. That's because some people have more patience than others." The joke suggests that while other tire brands wear out quickly, forcing repeated replacements, Kelly-Springfield tires last so long that impatient consumers buy inferior competitors instead—implying superior durability through dry wit rather than direct claims.