Life, 1914-05-28 · page 6 of 44
Life — May 28, 1914 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **primarily an advertisement**, not political satire or cartoon content. It's a 1899 Oldsmobile advertisement featuring a photograph of an early automobile with passengers outside a brick building. The ad promotes a smaller, six-cylinder model priced at $1,350—positioned as an affordable alternative to Oldsmobile's famous "Oldsmobile Six." The marketing pitch emphasizes the car's refined engineering, power, and aesthetic appeal comparable to more expensive vehicles. It highlights features like electric starting, enclosed valve mechanisms, and suspension quality. There is **no political cartoon or satirical content** on this page. The "Think of it!" headline is simply advertising copy designed to excite readers about accessible luxury automotive technology during the early automobile era.
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798 A car with every refinement, ample in power, exquisite in line, and with the same relative proportions, on a smaller scale, as the famous Oldsmobile Six. It is a car to delight the eye, for it has the same general appearance and body lines, and the same faultless finish, as the larger car that has during the past season brought added prestige to the Oldsmobile name. There is a carefully developed idea behind the pro- duction of this smaller Oldsmobile. We know there are thousands and thousands of customers waiting to buy this car, — customers who have looked in vain among the light car builders for ahigh grade, quality automobile, a car that promises all the distinction, beauty of design, refinement of detail, abundance of power, and general mechanical ex- cellence heretofore characteristic ol caly high-priced cars. Power in abundance. The motor is a unit power plant, three-point suspension, overhead valve type, all valves enclosed in Oldsmobile aluminum silencer. Thee can be no doubt that this car develops as much power in proportion to weight as any other four on the market. Eadement complete, including Delco electric start- ing, lighting and ignition systems. Ask for Catalog B, describing the Oldsmobile Four. There are many who prefer a six-cylinder car toa four. We have been supplying the demand for sixes in in- creasing number every year, and will continue to do so —with what we believe to be “The Greatest Six-Cylin- der Motor Car Ever Produced.” Combination 4 or 5-passenger Phaeton, touring body type, $2,975; 7-passenger touring body $175 extra. Limousine $4,300. Catalog A, describing the Olds- mobile Six, sent on request. OLDS MOTOR WORKS, Lansing, Michigan comicbooks.com