Life, 1915-08-26 · page 46 of 48
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This page contains **anti-vaccination satire** and period advertisements. The main article mocks anti-vaccination advocates by reporting on a two-month-old girl, Anne Barber, who died of smallpox despite being vaccinated. The *New Bedford Times* had highlighted her death as ammunition for anti-vaccinationists, but the article sarcastically notes the child contracted smallpox "in mild form as the result of the vaccination"—implying vaccination actually worked by reducing severity—yet she died anyway, likely from other causes. The dialogue feature "See the Interstate Line" humorously compares the invisible Interstate Line (between New York and New Jersey) to the difficult Hudson River crossing, using geographic absurdity to entertain readers. The remaining content is **period advertising**: Château Laurier hotel, Herbert Tareyton smoking tobacco, Shir Garters, ladies' cigarettes, and Cascade Highball whiskey—typical early 20th-century product placements reflecting contemporary consumer culture and social norms around tobacco and alcohol.
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LIFE Smallpox Victim “ Successfully” Vaccinated Referring to the death of five persons from smallpox in New Bedford recently, the New Bedford. Times called special attention to one of them as follows: “One of these deaths will unquestion- ably furnish rich material for the anti- vaccinationists. This case is the one of little Anne Barber, the two months’ old CYNOGRAMS child who died of smallpox this week Smoking the avcrage cigarette is like kissing a Ce atithe:smalipox:howial, The child was in the dark, 30 voce? kectd chal 90 fe going to gilt s yay aurier ee ee al wie peraent tae and it was stated by the physicians ie own chosen blend, made expressly to suit ast a: | attendance that the vaccination was your individual taste?—They will cost no more t ma Offawa-Gna a | fehl Whee Ge cid was tls the kind you now smoke, manufactured to ap a tovthe amilinox’ hospital # wea believed mate the taste of the many. Send us 25 cents for oi HE de lare Hotel of the Dominion. Situ- fy thin die bad contracted the wmalipos fo a sample boxes containing ten different blends. Fach ated In the heart of the Capital of Canada, ; blend is designated by its name printed on + js onc of the finest hotels on the Continent. mild form as the result of the vaccina- cigarette. Try them all, select. your favorite and Accommodations, three hundred and fitty {p tion, Yet she died within a few days. rooms. Rates, $200 and upwards. Bi Medical Freedom. order by name. Should none quite suit you, tell us hap European plan. E . why not and we will make the necessary changes wot Ottawa in summer is a delightful place to so- in bh . journ. Full of interest for the tourist and | in blending. con! sightseer.. Handsomely illustrated booklet : Two sample boxes of ladies’ cigarettes co : if of Ottawa and the Chateau Laurier sent ree See the Interstate Line i searetiee | life on application to Desk © the different blends as above, with or without per Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, Canada ‘ H, see the Interstate Line!” fume, will be sent direct in a plain pac SxoUs CONDOS. . “Where is it? I see nothing.” cents. The Courtessis Cigarette Co., Inc., bai “There it is. Right in the middle St, New York. Stil of the Hudson River.” met! strir H ; “It is strange that I do not see it.” utatis. Mutandis 7 7 M “Yes, but you see the effects of it, a and that is much more important. ized what Kenko, the fourteenth-century You know how difficult it is to get toni writer of “ Tsurezure considered across the Hudson between New York to be “bad taste,” thus: and Jersey. You are familiar with the Too much furniture in one’s living uncomfortable, slow-moving and in- » and too many pens ina stand. frequent ferryboats which start at one Too many Buddhas in a private shrine inaccessible point and stop at another. | See stra any oo many rocks, trees and herbs in a And you are familiar with the Hudson z ~ mod verge many children in a house and too Tube; which charges you seven cents a spell eee Whe nee ce for a little ten minutes’ ride. writi sunny books in au bookcase there “Oh, yes, Lam familiar with all that. . . the never be, nor too much litter in a I used to commute on the Erie. z : me v ap.—Argonaut, “Exactly so. And the Interstate there Line is responsible, You will observe peop that the East River has no Interstate Th Line. If it had it would probably be char: as hard to cross as the Hudson River. their But as it is there are already four ful bridges at convenient intervals for the spon use of pedestrians and private vehicles sropi and surface cars and elevated lines. platit And there are several subways, which tions carry passengers long distances at a storic low rate of fare.” “But if the Interstate Line is such a formidable and such an insurmount- able obstacle, why are we unable to T: Herbe rt : Trey ton 4 ©“ Because it is imaginar London ey On ~” obstacles are always the worst, as any bat t good history of superstition will at- put at your dealer or sample on request_ a gen Falk Tobacco Co. 56 West 45%StNwkd| EMO Tons x ih I hay ir Gar Harsh Cure HIST Pals We sake " connoisseurs and the aj wal of all Holds Hurry (at breakfast): T've got a bad for ta rich, smooth tmellowness. Shirt Down head this’ morning. MeOld Gold Lake Wire: ['m sorry, dear, I do hope Socks Up you'll be able to shake it off.” GED. A. DERE 8 CO, Piasitiere SHIRT GARTER CO. counmaTonn —Boston Transcript, = tem sect kno senc Dr, Aston, the Japanese sceretary to the British legation in Tokyo, summar- such are sligh ently which comicbooks.com