Life, 1919-11-27 · page 32 of 36
Life — November 27, 1919 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and obituary content**, not satire or political commentary. The dominant feature is a **Maillard Cocoa Chocolate advertisement** (established 1848) showcasing their Fifth Avenue storefront in New York with period-appropriate architectural detail. Below that are **obituaries for two prominent American figures**: Henry Mills Alden (editor of Harper's Magazine for 50 years) and Henry Lee Higginson (Boston banker, Harvard benefactor, and founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra). The text celebrates both as men of "national reputation" who lived exemplary lives contributing to American culture and institutions. The remaining content consists of **period advertisements** for art photographs and novelty items—typical commercial filler for early 20th-century magazine pages. There is **no political cartoon or satirical content** visible. This appears to be a standard magazine page blending paid advertising with editorial tributes to notable deceased citizens.
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COCOA CHOCOLMTE CONFECTIONS Fifth Avenue at 35% Street New York, Two Old Men ENRY MILLS ALDEN died in New York on October 7th; eighty- three years old. Henry Lee Higginson died in Boston November 15th, eighty-five years old. Two remarkable men they were; associated only in the circumstance that they lived their lives well through, died not far apart, and will be long remembered in the cities they lived in. And both of them were men of national reputation, one as a writer. and especially as the editor for fifty years of Harper's Magazine; the other as a banker and Harvard benefactor, and as the author and maintainer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Alden rocked a cradle for American literature and never let any likely infant perish if he could possibly help it. He was a humane and lovely person with rumpled hair, and had in him the heights and depths of knowledge and of sympathy. For ears he read manusc Tipts mos, time, and alw with a ming that hoped for the best. The Maga. tine was his garden and its contriby tors his plants. -He dealt with then according to his duty, tending son with pride and others with compass: and gathering more or what grew on them. a magazine editor like not be another, not even in the ner era, when all geese are to be swans Nor will there be another Maje Higginson. Why do bankers reek with sentiment? Major Higginsee was full of it, and so, lately, wa Mr. Morgan. There was that in Major that was like Mark Twain's “Buck Fanshaw,” who. though oa himself a religious man, took bs spanner and went down and dist. lowed the roughs from interrupting the Methodist meeting house. The Major probably was religious, but k was a good contender, and wou rather fight for the truth in the ope than have it brought around ina by “Original Art Photograp +8 OVER 500 SUBJECTS POSED FROM LIVING MODE! DUT desired tor decorating aasortment of the photographs In d Fecelpt of $10.00. Satisfaction Guaranteed 50 Art Nude Photos, post card size, ¢ ws de and $0 Bathing Girl P two alike, express prepal rt Nude and 100 Rathing Girt graph albums, add $4.00 to prices au | importers Exporters Wholesale THE AMERICAN NOVELTY COMPA Asheville, N.C., U.S. A+ comicbooks.com