Life, 1914-07-09 · page 2 of 40
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This page is primarily **advertising and practical content** rather than political satire. The main elements include: 1. **Timken Adjustable Roller Bearings ad** - Dominates the left side with an automobile image and technical information about maintaining car bearings as vehicles age. 2. **"A Union for Drifters"** - A brief satirical piece defining social categories (wealthy parents, bohemians, students, etc.) who "drift" without direction, proposing they form a union and receive membership cards. 3. **"Male Help Wanted"** - A help-wanted advertisement seeking male staff for religious positions, likely ushers or clergy assistants for New York churches. 4. **Biltmore Hotel advertisement** - Promotes this New York hotel. The page reflects 1920s concerns: automotive maintenance, social mobility anxieties, employment, and upscale hospitality advertising.
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tered at the Pu Copy right in tin your car grows old keep it tuned up Retain its smoothness, its quietness and comfort. Retain its quick response, its effective power—its dependability. You bought it fe these qualities—keep them in the car as it grows old in your servic Tune up your motor, adjust the carburetor for weather and varyin qualities of gasoline. Adjust the steering gear. Adjust the brakes end don't forget to adjust the bearings. Vor all bearings wear same as other moving parts anid need adjustment if you are to keep the full power and efliciency of your car. Inside Racwledie That Will Help You > y develops, rN f whicl, with the cat © Tumken Company THE TIMKEN ROLLER BEARING CO., CANTON, 0. qe THE TIMKEN-DETROIT AXLE CO., DETROIT, MICH. Male Help Wanted Wren Male Help. Owing to recent tendencies in New York religious circles, we can offer attractive positions as ushers in Fifth Avenue churches namby-pambys need apply, In addition to immaculate apparel, applicants must be stalwart and muscular, able to cope with and eject at a moment’s notice all dis- turbers, such as 1. W. W. men, visiting clergy who desire to ask questions of officiating pastors, and the like. Must be able to distinguish objectionable intruders from moncy- changers and other desirable communicants, Steady employment and plenty of excitement. Nominal salary may be eked out through tips on the stock market inad- vertently revealed by wealthy members of the ¢ sation who talk in their sleep during the services, Address Religious Supply a nployment Concern, BS Fla f ras | JALL-1N-THE*BOX A Union for Drifters UNION for drifters having been xested, it became highly de- je where to draw the Tine, in order that nobody who was really doing anything of importance should get in, To define the status of all drifters was, therefore, necessary The committee ted to decide this matter tl n handed in the iallowing definition : Dyierer—Anyone who drifts, as a woman without anything to do but ¢ in-an auto and play bridge; col, lege students; ye unmarried girls with wealthy parents; kalsomined n who sit in the parlors of hotels; brokers; Con see also suburbs, woman's clubs and pleasure resorts The union for drifters then having been formed, and the hours for drift- ing having Deen settled, the above definition was unanimously opted, Union cards were given out mem- hers, and all outsiders rigorously. ex- cluded De man dat insists on tellin’ all he said Uncle Eben, “ keeps hisse’t sy talkin’ dat he don't git a chanee t much real info'mation.” —l ington Star 2WWa.We WazG THE NEW YORK 4 America’s Latest and Most Refined, and New York's Centermost Hotel Qnty, hotel o ing an. entire cit locke “Vanderbilt” amd “Rladiso Aves., 43d and 44th Sts., ing Grand Central Terminal too rooms, 950 with hath—