Life, 1917-06-14 · page 36 of 38
Life — June 14, 1917 — page 36: what you’re looking at
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This page contains primarily **advertisements and satirical business parody**, not political cartoons requiring historical context. The main satirical content is the "Fiscaling Done at Reasonable Rates" advertisement, which **mocks financial fraud and corporate corruption**. It humorously offers services like rigging stock markets, defrauding widows and orphans, bamboozling stockholders, and "doctoring accounts to conceal fraud"—presenting these crimes as legitimate business services. This satire reflects early 20th-century public concern about unchecked corporate malfeasance and financial scandals. The small cartoon "Little Military Problems to Diminish the Front" is too small to decipher clearly but appears to be WWI-related, showing a figure attempting to reduce military casualties or troop numbers. The remaining content comprises legitimate advertisements (DuPont trapshooting, Old Overholt whiskey, rubber heels, playing cards) and book reviews. The page is essentially a mix of advertising and satirical commentary on contemporary business practices.
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1048 The King & Sports NVIGORATING—spontaneous— and interesting to the last degree —is trapshooting. It is the sport of kings and the king of sports—replete with excitement and exhilaration. Winging the wily clay pigeon has become quite de rigueur in smart country places and has proven a welcome boon to both host and hostess in the entertainment of house parties. The ‘Sport Alluring” Booklet on request. E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO. Wilmington Delaware The Latest Books (Continued from page 1036) its eternal validity—has undertaken to dogmatize the faith that Mr. Britling, so to say, dug himself into under fire. The dogmatization, to say the least, is prema- ture. It is the hair-trigger Wells, Wells the irrepressible prophesier, itemizing the specifications of the future God. I N the fall of 1912 a remarkable novel by one Vincent O'Sullivan—the quiet, but cumulatively dramatic, spider-and-fly story of a well-to-do bachelor’s infatua- tion, enthralment and ruin by the vam- pirish wife of a London black-leg—ap- peared. It was greeted with confident approval by the critics, but failed to win an audience—novels and “critical ap- proval” of them being germs that are sterile except under special conditions of the public's system. But some novels, like some germs, have enough vitality to bide their time. And this is one of them. The conditions seem to have altered. Its author turns out to be an American. A new edition of it (Small, Maynard, $1.50) Fiscaling Done at Reasonable Rates HiAviNe greatly increased our fa- cilities, we are now prepared to accept contracts of any size to promote get-rich-quick schemes, sell non-exist- ent gold mines, rig stock markets, de- fraud widows and orphans, hoodwink the public, buy and sell legislation, ete. Financial sleight-of-hand in all its branches and insinuosities. We have a large corps of ground-and-lofty acro- batic Lookkeepers who are experts in doctoring accounts to conceal fraud LITTLE MILITARY PROBLEMS TO DIMINISH THE FRONT and make deficits look like profits. Misleading financial statements fur- nished on short notice. All kinds of corporations pillaged in the most ap- proved and finished fashion. Railroads our specialty. On all railroad contracts we guarantee seventy-five per cent. re- sults in bamboozling the stockholders, the public and the workers. Address Fiscal and Filch, Breakers and Brok- ers, 23 Smug Street, New York. The heel that provides protection, comfort and long wear, but has no holes to track mud and dirt—Ask for the heel with the Red Plug. Obtainable in all sices—Nack, white or tan, $0, attached—all Dealers. 2 Packs Playing Cards 32,22:2! yi" aoe Gee. AValuable First Aid Right away Nurse hustles along an invigorating toddy, and if its Old Overholt Rye “Same for 107 Years’’ She knows that this straight Pennsylvania Rye is stimulating and its effect immediate. Old Overholt Rye is bottledin bond and is used in best hospi A. Overholt & Co, Pittsbargh, Pa. —fre “Mu that swee A all th ways comicbooks.com