Life, 1914-09-24 · page 39 of 45
Life — September 24, 1914 — page 39: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two main elements: **The "Pickpocket" cartoon** (upper left) depicts a woman pickpocket complaining that her victim's purse contains only "samples"—cheap promotional goods rather than real money. The caption sarcastically questions women's honor, playing on contemporary anxieties about women's changing social roles and behavior in the early 20th century. **The "Atlas" story** (center left) is a satirical financial allegory: Atlas (representing businessmen) formed a stock company to help carry "the world" (financial burden), but when the stock exchange suddenly closed due to conflict, he became trapped carrying it indefinitely. This likely references the 1907 financial panic or similar market disruptions. **The remaining content is primarily advertising**—for Buffalo Lithia Springs Water (a patent medicine claiming to cure digestive ailments and various diseases) and Old Overholt Rye whiskey, alongside a notice about Professor Garner (the "monkey man") and an ad for a telephone device for deaf users.
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lent ties, Pickpocket (with fat purse): NoTHIN’ BUT A LOT OF D—D SAMPLES! AIN'T WOMEN GOT NO HONOR? Later Details A®? it so happened that Atlas, in order to make it easier to carry the world, formed a stock company. He was still carrying it when the stock exchange suddenly closed on ac- count of a war between the Bigfites and the Hogbites. As soon as the exchange closed there was no way for Atlas to unload the world, so he had to keep on carry- ing it much longer than he intended. E.0. J. gammon. jerently well, the even . leasant one—aided t Bi Old Overholt Rye “*Same for 100 years’* It has satisfied and warmed the hearts of connoisseurs since the early days of the Nation. Made of purest mountain water and the best of sun- ripened grain. Aged in the wood and bottled in bond. A. OVERHOLT & CO. Pittsburgh, Pa. Nerves frazzled, temper on edge, stomach in rebellion, kidneys kicking over the traces, losing weight, no ambition— Thousands of business men today can say, “ Yes, that’s me.” It’s the price we pay for keeping on the jump in the modern business race. Our systems are full of poison; our digestive organs are overtaxed and cannot assimilate all that we crowd into our stomachs; result, indigestion and consequent defects of metabolism, followed by Bright's Disease, renal calculi, stone in bladder, albuminuria, rheumatism and gout. BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINGS WATER is Nature’s own remedy for these ills. Physicians have prescribed its use for over forty years with wonderful results. Among them HUNTER McGUIRE, M.D., LL.D., late President American Medical Association, who said: BUFFALO LITHIA WATER as an alkaline diuretic is invaluable. In Uric Acid Gravel, and, indeed, in diseases generally dependent upon a Uric Acid Diathesis, it is a remedy of extraordinary potency. I have prescribed it in cases of Rheumatic Gout, which had resisted the ordinary remedies, with wonderfully good results. I know from constant use of it personally and in practice that the results obtained from its use are far beyond those which would be warranted by the analysis given. I am of the opinion that it either contains some wonderful remedial agent as yet undiscovered by medical science, or its ele- ments are so delicately combined in Nature’s laboratory thet they defy the utmost skill of the chemist to solve the secret of their power.” If you are not “right,” try a course of Buffalo Lithia Springs Water. Buy a case and drink from 6 to 8 glasses a day; then sec how improved you are. Write for booklet, “ Springs of Health.” BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINGS WATER COMPANY Buffalo Lithia Springs, Virginia T is reported that Professor Garner, the “monkey man” who discov- ered the language of monkeys, has been stranded in Europe with two specimens. The professor has been living in the jungle for the past two years. It is sincerely hoped that noth- ing will happen to the professor and his two friends, who, it is understood, ok = are to be counted upon next season to able, weightles and harm: raise the intellectual standard of New- Oe ae bacd nosed oA: WTRD Es teki Greek! port society, THE MORLEY CO., Dept. 783, Perry Bidg., Phila. myself, only that I hear all ‘The Morley Phone for the DEAF