Life, 1914-10-22 · page 38 of 44
Life — October 22, 1914 — page 38: what you’re looking at
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This page combines satirical content with advertising. The main satire is "A Thanksgiving Proclamation," a mock-formal document that cynically inverts the holiday's meaning. Rather than celebrating gratitude, it presents Thanksgiving as beneficial primarily to doctors and medical professionals—since overeating causes digestive problems requiring their services. The proclamation humorously lists beneficiaries: "general practitioners, specialists, family doctors, surgeons, quacks, pharmacists, druggists, pill manufacturers." The satire critiques both American excess and the commercialization of health. By addressing physicians as a group profiting from holiday gluttony, it mocks both consumer culture and the medical establishment's financial interests. The page also includes illustrations (a portrait and "The Girl Who Promised to Wait for Him") and substantial advertising for Ainslee's Magazine promoting O. Henry's "Confessions of a Humorist"—typical of Life's revenue model combining satire with paid content.
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