Life, 1915-08-19 · page 38 of 48
Life — August 19, 1915 — page 38: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** with brief humorous sections interspersed. The main content includes: - A joke about the "Rocky Mountain Cyclone" newspaper's printing problems (missing letters), satirizing frontier publishing incompetence - A quip about Professor Taft needing to "watch his step" (likely referencing William Howard Taft, president 1909-1913, in a pun about earthquake tremors recorded at Yale) - A cartoon showing a man and woman dancing, captioned with a play on Lovelace's poem about love and alcohol ("Love'd I not Con amore") The advertisements promote Arcadia tobacco, Wilson whiskey (emphasizing its non-refillable bottle to prevent adulteration), Capewell horseshoe nails, and other products. These ads reflect early 20th-century consumer goods and concerns about product authenticity and safety. The page reflects Life's format as a satirical magazine mixing light humor with commercial content.
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“We begin the publication of the Roccay Mountain Cyclone with some phew diphphiculties in the way. The type phounders phrom whom we bought our outphit phor this printing ophphice phailed to supply us with any ephs or cays, and it will be phour or phive weex bephore we can get any. We have or- dered the missing letters, and will have to get along without them until they come. We don't lique the loox ov this variety ov spelling any better than our readers, but mistax will happen in the best regulated phamilies, and iph the ph’s and the c’s and x's and q's hold out we shall ceep (sound the C hard) the Cyclone whirling aphter a phashion till the sorts arrive. It is no joque to us—it's a serious aphphair.” —Everybody's. A Sherbet 1s made tasty and delightful by using Abbott's Bitters. Sample of bitters by mail, 25 cts. in stamps. C. W. Abbott & Co., Baltimore, Ma, “Now, this typewriter is equipped with all the summer attachments.” “Summer attachments?” “A small mirror, a miniature clock and a thermometer; everything a girl has to consult frequently.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. | Garage $6950 of garages and porta Send postal for Hiastrated catalog, The Edwards Mtz. Co. 336-394 Fee! = Clarinet, O. Step Lightly, Professor Bitt: I see by the papers that earth tremors have been recorded on instru- ments at New Haven, Conn. Jit: Somebody ought to tell Profes- sor Taft to watch his step! —Yonkers Statesman, ‘Holding strictly with the belief that Moderation is the best Temperance we make our Whis- key to square with our principle. And to insure that our customers will get this wonderfully mildand mellow Whiskey just asit’s made we protect it with a Non-Refillable Bottle— Wilson—Real Wilson— That’s All! The Whiskey for which we invented the Non-Refillable Bottle FREE CLUB RECIPES—Free booklet of famous club recipes for mixed drinks. Address Wilson, 13 E. 31st Street, N. Y. That's All! Made since1861 from 7 kindsof tobaccos, from 7 different parts of the world—the best of each kind. 1/4 pound, new air- tight Export Package 50c Smaller sizes, L5c and 25¢ 8 and 16 oz. tins, $1.00 and $2.00 You'll never know how good tobacco can be made until you smoke Arcadia. Write to us enclosing three two-cent stamps for trial package The Nails in Your Horses’ Hoofs should be dependable and safe. It's risky to use a nail made of poor stock— ‘one likely to crimp or split under the blacksmiths hammer. Insist upon the Capewell nail. You can't afford to accept a substitute. Look for the Trade Mark on thehead. Best nail in the world at a fair price—not cheapest regardless of quality. “1 COULD NOT LOVE TITEE, DEAR, SO MUCH, Lov'D I NOT Con aMone” comicbooks.com