Life, 1914-03-19 · page 5 of 44
Life — March 19, 1914 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The main content is a full-page advertisement for Dioxogen (hydrogen peroxide) by the Oakland Chemical Co., emphasizing it as a first-aid antiseptic for wounds and injuries. The left sidebar contains smaller ads: an Old Town Canoe advertisement, Dreer's Garden Book, and Henry A. Dreer seeds. Below the canoe ad is a brief satirical item titled "Who Killed King Highbrow?" featuring cartoon characters (a Magazine, Turkey-Trotter, Practical Business Man, Reporter, and others) each claiming responsibility for killing "King Highbrow" through various means—careless articles, vulgarity, and lowbrow content. This appears to be social commentary on the decline of highbrow culture, though the specific historical context is unclear.
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DIVORCED, BUT ONLY FOR FORTY DAYS Who Killed King Highbrow ? “wo killed King Highbrow?” “T,.” said the Magazine. “I did it with my careless exploiting and my offensive uplifting articles which made everybody thoroughly disgusted. I killed King Highbrow.” “Who saw him die?” “T,” said the Turkey-Trotter, “ with heatnut Street, y Phitadelphta, Pa, Ht HENRY A. DREER, Some day you must fac An accident happens, a bad cut, a jagged wound, a rusty nail thrust, any one of a thousand things—you know if it is not quickly attended to it will blood poisoning then becomes a vital, personal one. In every such emergency your first thought should be Dioxogen Better to apply it a thousand times when there is no real danger than to go without it once at the critical moment. The best and cheapest insurance you can buy is a bottle of Dioxogen. Becau: anilid as you see prohibits it a disag: Dioxogen is always sold “What Shall I Do?” tection, See that this container is sealed when you buy. e this question—perhaps tomorrow. become inflamed and the danger of Why Dioxogen ? se it is the one pure Peroxide of Hydro- gen. It purifies by setting free Oxygen—nature’s own greatest purifier. Ask for Dioxogen by name and protect yourself against common, cheap peroxide, containing Acet- a “preservative.” Think carefully when Acetanilid on a bottle—the Government its use unless the exact quantity is plainly stated on the label. It is used to make cheap per- oxide KEEP—but it also makes it rank and gives reeable taste and smell. It is important that you ask for Dioxogen BY NAME The Oakland Chemical Co., 98 Front Street, New York in a sealed container for your pro- my Castle Walk and my Lame Duck, and my midnight tergiversations and other gyrations, I saw him die.” “Who caught his blood?” “Not I,” said the Practical Business Man, “ because, between you and me, he isn't in it| A pale and useless and contemptible creature who thinks he l.nows more than I do.” “Who'll make his shroud?” “1,” said the Reporter, “with my vulgar head-lines and my low-minded efforts to use the English language in such a way as to perpetuate the worst of it. I'll make his shroud.” ho'll toll the bell?” “We,” said the Baseball Fan, the Golf Player, the Adventurer, the Gam- bler and the Advertising Writer. “We'll toll the bell, because he is a fakir and a tiresome phrase-maker ; we'll toll the bell.” Then all the real people, how they laughed as they said, rejoiced as they read, when, according to program, King Highbrow was dead. comichooks.