ComicBooks.com Register / Loginit's free!

Life, 1916-03-30 · page 42 of 45

Life — March 30, 1916 — page 42: what you’re looking at

📖 Open the full issue in the page-flip reader →
Life — March 30, 1916 — page 42: Life, 1916-03-30

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and book reviews**, not political satire. The main content includes: **"Authorities Wanted" (top)**: A satirical classified ad criticizing city authorities' ineffectiveness during labor disputes. It humorously "advertises" for better-quality police/officials who understand workers' rights and can suppress disorder without brutality—a pointed critique of how authorities were mishandling the era's intense labor conflicts and strikes. **Featured Content**: An advertisement for Morgan Robertson's newly published romantic novel, with an illustration showing a couple in primitive conditions. The copy emphasizes Robertson's "genius" in depicting human relationships. **Books Received section**: Standard literary reviews listing contemporary titles. **Bottom advertisement**: A bunion remedy ad using a common early-20th-century sales technique ("prove it at my expense"). The satire is mild and localized—the "Authorities Wanted" piece reflects genuine Progressive Era frustrations with police brutality toward strikers, but it's gentle mockery rather than harsh political cartooning.

📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Authorities Wanted ANTED—City Authorities. Owing to the great increase in the number and in- tensity of labor disputes, we stand in urgent need of city authorities of a some- what higher grade than we have been able to get along with up to this time. Must have authorities with a sense of justice that will enable them occasionally to sym- pathize with the under dog, and an understanding of the fact that even striking workmen have rights which authorities are in duty bound to respect. Good pay and steady employ- ment for authorities of the right kind, as the wrong kind too often proves extremely expensive and inefficient by creating disorder in the very act of trying to suppress it. Apply at once, Anxious Citizenry, Anyfactorytown, Anystate. Cuban Cane Sugar Just Published An authoritative new book by Robert Wiles, on Cuban cane sugar and its de- velopment as an industry. It shows the astounding possibilities being opened on a large scale by American capital. Cuban sugar is one of the world’s largest single enterprises. More Amenian capital is being invested in Cuban sugar than in any other foreign enterprise. Every investor should have_a copy. At all Booksellers, 75 cents net, or sent on approval by us to any address and the price can be sent after the book is examined. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers New York Indianapolis 188 Madison Avenue University Square Books Received All That's Kentucky, by Josiah H. Combs. (John P. Morton Co., Louisville, Ky. $1.50.) Today and Tomorrow, by Charles Han- son Towne. (Geo. H. Doran Co. $1.25.) The Beloved Traitor, by Frank L. Pockard. (Geo. H. Doran Co. $1.25.) The Heart of Thunder Mountain, by Edfrid A, Bingham. (Little, Brown & Co. $1.35.) Confessions of Two Brothers, John Cowper Powys and Llewellyn Powys. (The Manas Press, Rochester, N. Y.) “and Other Poets,” by Louis Un- termeyer, (Henry Holt & Co. $1.23.) Samaritan Mary, by Sumner Locke. (Henry Holt & Co. $1.25.) Japan and America, by Carl Crow (Robert McBride & Co. $1.50.) Ways to Lasting Peace, by David Starr Jordan, (Bobbs-Merril Co., Indianapolis, Ind. $1.00.) The Passionate Elopement, by Comp- ton Mackenzie. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.35.) Instant Bunion Relref Prove It At My Expense Don’t send me one ceat—just let me $t to you as I have done for 67, last siz months, I claim to have Morgan Robertson's genius leaped beyond the con- ventional love story. In this idyll of young love he pictures man and woman in an amazing situation—in conditions as primitive as when Adam found Eve. The story—" The Three Laws and the Golden Rule” —is found in the new Metropolitan-McClure edition of Morgan Robertson, It continues the narrative told in “PRIMORDIAL "—of the boy and girl shipwrecked on a desert island, It shows how each life responded of the race. The reader sees vividly unfolded in these two young lives the whole drama of human existence. The world's first wooingwas likethis The new edition is a treasure trove to the lover of unusual, absorbing stories. It contains “ Sinful Peck.” ‘a novel of 70,000 words—Morgan Robertson's master creation, “Sinful Peck belongs in the same immorts! company with Long John Silver and Robinson Crusoe,” said Irvin Cobb. In these stories you will meet Chinese pirates, hypnotists, stowaways. The mystery of undersea life will be unfolded to you. You will peer into the wonder realm of Personality, Here's how you can get them Making a Dream Come True For though his imagiastion swept the seven seas and his stories laid bare the rudimentary impulses of mea and women of all conditions, though bis sheer uatutored genius stamped bis work wih . poverty was the file-tong por iS devoted wile the hope that tome day he woold suffctent recognition to litt the turdea of penury trom bis decliniog years. A year ago Metropolitan and McClate’s joleed forces to make Morgan Robertion’s dream come true, But It wat tot in the great scheme of things that be should feel the beast life of appreciation, ‘On March 24th, 1915, on the third day of the Girst vacation of his weary life, he died. Mis tat toot was at the ocean be loved ; the last sound be beard was the beat of the surt upon the shore. Sarted by Metropolitan snd McClure's for Mores Leartt will be coatinsed tor Morgan Rovertion for she has no income other than the foyaltics shew receive trom the 8 ke You ean help ‘hese four hasvisomely tound volumes of Af MeChare 8. How You Can Get the 4 Books Free The 35 Morgan Robertson stories, embracing his best work, are in four handsome cloth bound volumes—over 1,000 pages—over 300,000 words printed in new easy- to-read type—titles stamped in gold. You send only ten cents now with the coupon. After that, one dollar for four months to pay for the magazines, ff /’* and that’sall! The books are yours FREE. If you wish to pay all at once, send only $3.75. Ifyou prefer full leather binding, send $5.75. We recommend Sane this edition to book lovers. Magazines may be sent to different ad- 7 dresses. If you are at present a subscriber to either magazine, your MR Sis8i, subscription will be extended. Postage extra outside of the f# Scrange termes of payment to ste! months if yom ode putt eather binding. follar a month tor foue® amazing. The books which relieves 703 almost, iy of the Temoves the eauee of the Damion ard thos deformity disay i thia while ing tighter shoes than ever, Jost send your, and address and treatment will be een promptly in plain sealed envelope. FOOT REMEDY CO. 3502 West 26th Street, Chicago, United States. comicbooks.com