Life, 1913-08-14 · page 4 of 40
Life — August 14, 1913 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page presents a reader-participation game where subscribers identify locations where *Life* magazine is being read, based on cartoon illustrations. The cartoons depict exaggerated character types reading the publication in various settings. The contest offers a three-month subscription to correct respondents who submit one dollar. Previous week's answers listed places including Havana, Arizona, Salt Lake City, Nome, Montreal, Teheran, and Panama—suggesting the game highlights *Life's* international readership. The text discourages new subscriptions in August, citing that special numbered issues won't begin until September (apparently related to Pro-Suffrage content) and that a premium picture isn't yet ready. The magazine cost ten cents and was available at newsstands.
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(Note: This ts the third page in the epoch making series Of pictures now running in Life, which is beginning to attract attention all over the world.) Guess the places on the map where Life is being read as shown by the pictures on this page; and if your answer is correct and you will send us one dollar (see coupon) we will send you Life for three months to any address in this country. Answers to Last Week The pictures published in this page in the last number of Life represented the following places, beginning witb the one at the lower left-band and going around to the right bottom one. Havana, Arizona, Salt Lake City, Nome, Montreal, Teheran, Panama. Don’t Subscribe Just Now There are SEVERAL reasons for this: First, our great series of Special Numbers does not begin until September, when the Pro-Suffrage Number (in favor of votes for women) will usher in the autumn season. Second, our new Premium Picture, sent to all yearly subscribers, is not quite ready yet. It requires special care this year, as it is printed in delicate colors. Third, this being August, it’s a bad season to put your mind on a serious thing like Lire. Next week’s issue will treat on the cover only LIFE EVERY TUESDAY TEN CENTS Enclosed find One Dole lar (Canadian $1.13, Foreign $1.26). Send Live for three months to Open only to new subscribers; no subscription ALL NEWSAR NEWSSHOPS, renewed at this rate. This order must come to us direct; not through an agent or dealer. NEWSATORIUM ND NEWS- LIFE, 17 West 31st Street, New York. 20 EMPORIUMS. 3 One Year $5.00. (Canadian $5.52, Foreign $6.04.) comicbooks.com