Life, 1915-05-06 · page 7 of 56
Life — May 6, 1915 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The main content consists of three commercial advertisements: 1. **Whitman's Chocolates** (large center ad): Promotes their "Super Extra Package" of quality candies available through nationwide agents and retailers. 2. **Fownes Gloves** (left sidebar): Highlights their century-plus history of customer satisfaction, using the tagline "It's all you need to know about a Glove." 3. **Snug Shirt-Trim Socks** (bottom left): Markets their shirt garter product. The left column contains a brief article titled "Bulls and Bears" discussing stock market activity and unemployment, unrelated to the advertisements. This is a typical Life magazine layout mixing editorial content with advertising revenue.
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Bulls and Bears CTUALITIES eventuated with un- precedented abnormality on Mon- day. This was due to a variety of causes, no one of which was germane to anything observable. Throughout the entire session prices lacked their customary inhibitoriness. This was because of the unusually large number of unemployed, if there is an unusu- ally large number of unemployed; but if not, it is because of the absence of an unusually large number of unem- ployed. On Tuesday everybody gave every evidence of being grimly determined to get at the exact facts and the rea- sons thereof. This naturally consumed considerable time of a more or less valuable character. There was noth- ing, meanwhile, for prices to do but wait. This resulted in several mis- understandings of an unclarified na- ture. On Wednesday much excitement was caused by the announcement that Robert W. Chambers had written an- the national sweets Wherever and whenever you want good candy, you can get Whitman’s. The pretty little green-and-white signs which announce our Whitman agencies dot the whole continent. Notice this on your next motor trip. Every agent everywhere is supplied direct from headquarters. In the little far-off places you will find Whitman’s, as fresh and dainty and inviting as in the big centers. Only sweets of Whitman’s quality could make so many friends in so many places. Ask for the Super Extra Package by name. Chocolates of su- preme Whitman quality in a charming assortment of nut, hard, and cream centers. Eighty cents the pound. This is the Package which 7 = first made Whitman’s famous—each piece a delightful “reason why”. | Ask for booklet or write us. OWN E | STEPHEN F. WHITMAN & SON, Inc., Philadelphia, U. S. A. Makers of Whitman's Instantaneous Chocolate, Cocoa and Marshmallow Whip. “Tt’s a #08 that’s all you need to know aboutaGlove.” other novel in which the chief scenes “Highty—tighty!—One of those sweeping, egotistical, advertising slogans,”’ you say. But isn’t it some- thing more? How many things that are bought and sold have given satisfaction for over one and a third centuries? Fownes Gloves have. *s** © Fownes Sete e ee tee eee oe beeen eoeee « seceee pean were laid in an artist’s studio. This proved to the experts that the litera- Amalgamated Graft Inferred, Ame ture market was still in a suitably un- ican Steal Refining, Rusty Spike and healthy condition. Rotten Tie Railroad, Glorified Di On Thursday several untoward solved Trust Preferred, Rumly and Bunkum, Inc., and the Burglars’ De- velopment Company. On Saturday the bank statement appeared showing the effect of much grooming, but as the figures possessed s&s On Friday the six best-sellers were: phenomena foregathered to combine against interpretative prognostications. It became noticeable at once that this é situation had to be dealt with, but ry when they tried to find out whose 8 “DoesNT BIND t deal it was, reports conflicted, and Fs . 6 Sa thus the expected progress was more apparent than real. an unwonted amount of elasticity, due to the currency bill, all efforts at ac- curate analysis were fruitless. comicbooks.com