Life, 1916-06-29 · page 15 of 41
Life — June 29, 1916 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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The top cartoon depicts two men on a beach discussing real estate. One wears glasses and formal attire; the other is dressed casually. The caption suggests they're trying to sell waterfront property in a shopping district—satirizing opportunistic post-convention real estate speculation. The three articles below address serious post-WWI topics: Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's continued political influence, a memorial to child mill workers in Alabama who died at age eleven after grueling factory labor, and American financial securities being sold to Allied nations to fund war efforts. The satire targets profiteering and exploitation during the World War I era—contrasting trivial beach-front sales schemes with grave human costs: child labor deaths and wartime financial schemes benefiting the wealthy.
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Ui & iy Wf, , ML, z 2£Giy yz She: THIS IS VERY BEAUTIFUL AND ALL THAT, BUT SURELY WE CAN FIND SOMETHING FOR SALE THAT ISN'T QUITE SO UN-GET-AT-ABLE. “TRUE ENOUGH! SHOPPING DISTRICT.” Noticel Do Not Bury This Corpse; Maybe It's Not Dead HE World’s after-the-convention Oyster Bay dispatch began: “Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has made and lost his last political fight.” Fudge! You never can tell. He may be just beginning. Possibly, however, he is shaking down into the place that is fittest for him, of guide, philosopher and inspiring stimu- lator of the American people. About two fingers of the Colonel always does the Amer- ican people good. The danger has been that they might take too much of him and get a habit. Silver Lining of Our Peace Cloud THE United States is taking American securities at good prices as fast as London and Paris send them in. Count it as a gain to the Allies that we can do it. If we were raising war-loans in this country we could not be so accommodating. LET US ADVERTISE FOR SOME WELL-WOODED WATER-FRONT PROPERTY IN THE A Lovely Alabama Grave (A cheap iron tomb with flowers about its one miser- able little grave) Inscription H! lie in one grave (because it's cheaper) Tommy, ‘ellie, Bessie, Freddy and Kitty Downtrod. Brothers and sisters, Adults, who died at the average of eleven years, in the year 1915 A. D. This memorial is generously presented by Hon. Cant Workem Eno, mill owner, in grateful memory. After a long life of happiness and child-play in the fac- tory, they sleep well (for the first time). Their highest encomium—before they died, they wove 1,273,871 yards of unbleached cotton cloth at less wages and longer hours than any other family in Buncom County—$1.50 per week —16 hours a day. May their lives thus devoted to industry not have been in vain. May they prove a blessing and encouragement to other and similar adults now engaged in work in the mills in this grand old state. Stranger, pause and shed a few tears For the loss to the mill owner of these little dears. comicbooks.com