Life, 1917-04-19 · page 36 of 42
Life — April 19, 1917 — page 36: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** for three products: Richmond Straight Cut cigarettes, Fownes gloves, and Carstairs whisky. The top advertisement features a historical engraving depicting statesmen at the Capitol in Richmond, Virginia, discussing legislation over cigarettes—a nostalgic appeal to tradition and respectability. The pitch emphasizes that Richmond cigarettes use domestically-grown Virginia tobacco, requiring no import duty, positioning them as patriotic and economical. Below that is a small cartoon labeled "Here Endeth the First Lesson" showing what appears to be a boxing or fighting lesson—likely satirizing some social or sporting activity, though the specific reference is unclear without more context. The remaining content includes book reviews and a Fownes gloves advertisement emphasizing quality and fit. **The satire is minimal**; this is largely a commercial page reflecting early 20th-century advertising practices that associated consumer products with gentility, patriotism, and social status.
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“... In those days it was no uncommon sight to see the Statesmen, dur- ing @ recess, discussing Ways and Means over their Virginia cigarettes.” These famous cigarettes have always been in demand. And fortunately for you, they're not imported, Their good Virginia tobacco is grown right here—it pays no import duty—all the value in “Richmond Straight Cuts” is in the cigarette, where it should be. If you don't know the old-time deli- cacy of good Virginia tobacco—you should try “Richmond Straight Cuts.” Richmond Straight Cat CIGARETTES Plain oF Cork Tp In Neat Boxes— Fifteen Cents Also in attractive tins, 50 for 40 cents; 100 for 75 cents. Sent prepaid if your dealer cannot supply you. Mont Ginter MOND Vinaraia. USA, ese Ta ceca “MERE ENDETI THE FIRST LESSON.” WAAAY ! al boom ps TW in uN I It is not much trouble to ask no trouble with style, fit or comfort when you get what you ask for. Try it. yo _tnow aboot a GLOVE. greatly extend the list of his debtors Dumb-bell was a lemon-and-white setter, the unpromising son of a national cham: pion, who earned his succession to his father’s public honors and domestic privi leges in a series of spectacular field. trials. All the stories centre in the private kennels and country home of a wealthy pair of sport lovers, and doy wiseness and human interest are inextri cably blended in them, ‘© be human about dogs is common enough, though to express it in Mr Foote’s way is rare. But to be a lawyer and to look human-like at the law, a to interpret and criticise its workings as fair-mindedly as Frederic De Witt Wells, Justice of the Municipal Court of the City of New York, has in “The Man in Court” (Putnam, $1.50) is all but agin nature. The court-trial procedure as though it were a staged play, giving us the successive phases of the maddening and muddle headed proceedings with humor-tinged comments and knowledgeable explana- book treats the average su R We - Ally a WH ts Se Established 1788 A Century Favorite Time has enriched this per- fect brand. Saar Ti MM TTT ss Us n tion forbic might Ble strike cause beart | The for the perating comicbooks.com