Life, 1913-08-28 · page 4 of 40
Life — August 28, 1913 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily an **advertisement for Life magazine subscriptions**, using a "Guess Again" contest format. The central offer invites readers to identify locations on a map where Life is being read, with a correct answer earning one dollar plus three months of free subscription. The cartoon vignettes surrounding the text appear to depict various characters engaged in **reading or promoting Life magazine** in different settings and scenarios—fishing, wearing hats, and other everyday situations. These serve as visual humor suggesting Life's broad appeal across different demographics. The page emphasizes Life's claimed qualities: "magnanimity, generosity, lavishness, reckless disregard for consequences." This is **self-promotional satire**, humorously overstating the magazine's virtues as part of its marketing appeal to potential subscribers.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Guess Again This is the fourth page in the wonderful series : of offers we are now printing here and which : | for magnanimity, generosity, lavishness, reckless disregard for consequences and pristine purity of motive, have never been equalled anywhere. Remember we resolutely stand by the offer made below. It is abso- lutely genuine, bona fide and irrevocable. This Is Our Offer 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. This great offer will be constantly renewed, repeated, reiterated until you avail yourself of it. Enclosed Answers to Last Week find One ji ; / Dollar (Ca- The pictures published on this page in our issue of nadian $1.13, August 14, represented the following ‘places, beginning vA Foreign $1.26): with the one at the lower left hand and going around Send Lire for to the right bottom one. Portland, Washington, a/ three months to Reno, Indianapolis, St. Louis, New York, </ : Hartford. in the Excitement Of making the astounding offer which ap- pears on this page many matters of vital (ever hear that word before?) interest have been omitted. We merely mention them here. New Mimature Life—just out Special numbers coming in September Open only to. new subscribers; no subscription New premium picture for ycarly subscribers now renewed at this rate. Trial subscriptions should being prepared. be sent direct; not through an agent or dealer. Another name in place of ‘* news-stand"* LIFE, 17 West 31st Street, New York # ‘ONE YEAR $5.00. (CANADIAN $5.52, FOREIGN $6.04.) comicbooks.com