Life, 1916-07-27 · page 31 of 32
Life — July 27, 1916 — page 31: what you’re looking at
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This page is **primarily advertisements** interspersed with brief editorial commentary. The satirical content is minimal: **Main Items:** 1. **"The Top of Your Head"** — Advertisement for the Grace-Mildred Culture Course promoting hair growth treatments and dandruff removal through physical exercise. 2. **"Some Small-pox Figures"** — Brief editorial commentary (labeled as satire by the Homeopathic Envoy attribution) mocking vaccination statistics. It presents confusing data about smallpox cases and vaccination outcomes, sarcastically suggesting the figures offer no clear proof of vaccination's effectiveness—appearing to critique both vaccination skeptics and the unclear public health reporting of the era. 3. **Clicquot Club Ginger Ale advertisement** — Standard product promotion claiming national popularity based on quality. 4. **"Sensitive Cows"** — Humorous short anecdote about a milkman explaining his cows cry because they're distressed about the quality of their milk during poor feed season. 5. **Product advertisements** — Mothersill's Seasick Remedy and Horlick's Malted Milk. The page reflects early 20th-century advertising and light social humor rather than political satire.
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The Top of Your Head should be covered with a naturalgrowth of hair, and it can be —if roots are not dead. Dandruff can abe removed. and grey hair arrested through our Physical Culture Exer- cises and local treatment for the scalp. Write for information Grace-Mildred Culture Course Dept. 33, 624 S. Michigan Blvd., Chicago That very excellent little weekly issued by our Uncle Sam’s Public Health Serv- Public Health Reports (Oct. gives its readers some figures that Preeemeed Keke are mildly interesting, but not very con- GINGER ALE vineing in any respect, concerning the of those twins Small-pox and Vac- Panglgteg er Saal . : yt in the World cination. The figures are compiled from various state reports. In the arca and during the period cov Clicquot Club Ginger Ale This ered there were 20,835 cases of small-pox. national popularity was secured on Of these 540 had been “vaccinated quality alone, Every year the de- within seven years preeeding attack: mand for a beverage of character that M is good, harmless and pure makes more 1104 “last vaccinated more than friends for Clicquot. You have a new conception of Ginger Ale when you try it, seen ; Good grocers and druggists sell it by 7.935 had a “history not obtained or : the case. Those who drink Clicquot, uncertain, ant to buy it by the case. Now, if any one can get any aid and THE CLICQUOT CLUB CO., Millis, Mass. comfort out of these figures he must be Winner of Medal of Honor, Panama- Pacific Expo: a mathematical optimist. But what of that majority, the 11,286, who were never “successfully vaccinated"? Was it their fault, or the vaccine’s, or the vac- cinator's, of the rites’, that the thing was “unsuccessful”? And so the dark- ness of Erebus settles down on the n ing of “unsuccessful” in the mysteries of vaccination, which is an “absolute protection ” when “ successful.” —Homocopathic All over America you can buy seven years preceding attack.” 11,286 had “never been successfully ; | MOTHERSILL’S | Sensitive Cows ic SEASICK REMEDY [ne dealer's? If you had gi him the order in advance you wouldn't The Thing for Trainsickness | have been disappointed. [AT ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS im “Short o' grass feed, mum; short o° grass feed this time o° y said the jocular milkman. “Bless you, them cows vou gone away for the sum- o” mine are just as sorry about it as am. I often stands and watches ‘em cryin’, reg'lar cryin’, mum, because they feel as how their milk don’t do ‘em eredit. You don’t believe it?” Oh, yes, I believe it,” said the lady; The powder dissolves in water. Needs no Goakine=-leon it on “hand. “but [wish in future you'd see that they ] Rich Miike, Malted grain extract in powder. | The Original Food-Drink for all ages don't drop their tears into our ean For Infants, I and growing children. —London Opini _Pure nutrition, upbuilding the whole body. avigorates nursing mothers, and the aged. | Substitutes cost YOU Same Price.