Life, 1915-02-25 · page 6 of 44
Life — February 25, 1915 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two distinct advertisements rather than political satire. **Left side:** A Kelly-Springfield Tire Company ad addressing a common automotive problem—flat tires caused by faulty inner tubes. The ad promises their tires and tubes, made from "real rubber," will reduce punctures and increase mileage reliability. **Right side:** A Collier's magazine advertisement referencing World War I. It promotes an upcoming article by Lloyd George (British Chancellor of the Exchequer) analyzing the war's economic costs to England—what the nation would gain and lose. The ad frames this as timely analysis of the war as fundamentally an "economic question." Both advertisements target readers' practical concerns: car maintenance and wartime economic anxieties. Neither contains editorial cartoons or political caricature.
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Gone Flat Again! No sharp report. Just the gradually per- ceptible jolting that tells of a leaky tube gone flat again. Hot, shadeless road and a dusty, dirty job. That’s the story of the needless puncture so common with cheap, machine-made tubes that leak around valves and become porous in service. The way to avoid these unnecessary punc- tures is to equip your car with Kelly- Springfield Tubes, which are made slowly and painstakingly by hand and out of real rubber. Kelly-Springfield Tires are made the same way. Use them with Kelly-Springfield Tubes and you will add increased tire mileage to freedom from needless tube trouble. Send for * Documents in Evidence’? which tells the experience of others Kelly-Springfield Tire Company Broadway and 57th Street a New York Branch Offices: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, Detroit, Cincinnati, San Fran- cisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Kansas City, Atlanta, Akron. The Hear Tire and Rubber Seitert & Baioe, Barnar. d-Michael Tice Co., : Boger-Stiess Rul bber Compan ny, Mins What will this| war cost England} in men and money | and resources? Lloyd-George, the most brilliant Chancellor of the Exchequer that England has ever had, answers this question in Collier's for February 27th. It} is the most striking article that has yet appeared in connec- tion with this war, for, after all, war is an economic question. England went in with her eyes open. What will she gain? What will she lose? “Lloyd-George Counts the Cost” in this week's A Colliers THE NATIONAL WEEKLY 416 West 13th Street, New York City comichooks.qom