Life, 1916-11-09 · page 39 of 40
Life — November 9, 1916 — page 39: what you’re looking at
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This page primarily features **advertisements and promotional content** rather than political satire. The main content announces Life's short-story contest, offering $1,000 for the best original story under 1,500 words. The contest's gimmick: authors were paid ten cents per word *not* written—incentivizing brevity. Over 30,000 submissions were received; 81 were selected for publication. Managing Editor Thomas L. Masson provides an introduction. The page includes one cartoon titled "The Poet's Wife," showing a domestic scene where a woman calls upstairs to her husband (Milton), asking him to answer the phone while she's busy. This is mild domestic satire about spousal dynamics and the poet's reluctance to interrupt his work. The remaining content consists of advertisements: Hampshire Paper Company (gentlemen's stationery) and Pinehurst, North Carolina (a resort promoting winter golf, tennis, and horse racing). The page reflects early 20th-century advertising and literary culture rather than political commentary.
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ill charm roughout I clothing. | OW short can a short story be? at-etore. H Life, wishing to solve this Short , ] problem, held recently a very ° iladetphi interesting contest A prize of 81,000 Stories from 7 | was offered fur the best original story 6 a ” under 1,500 words in length, and second Li fe XIBLE | and third prizes of $500 and $250, In ATHER addition to these prizes, every story THE Sl PRIZE STORIES IN NDING accepted by Life as yood enough to “LIFES” SHORTEST STORY enter the competition was to be paid for at the rate of ten cents for every word Wath an Introduction by under 1,500 words which the author did THOMAS L. MASSON | not write? Thatis, a story of1,499words _Managing Editor of ** Life Not a lady’s paper, would be worth 10 cents; astory of 500 Net $1.25 t bi : words would be worth $100, and so on . not business paper, This umigue contest aroused great interest among the best American ny The Stationery but social stationery short story writers. More than 30,000 MSS were received by Life. Of | e “Kage these, 81 were selected as the best,'and these are the stories which appear of a Gentleman for men s# We have in this book. | a sample packet we Eighty-one short stories, all under 1,500 words, vivid, unconventional, should like to mail some by established writers and some by authors still unknown to the || | A public, make this a book of unusual interest. Thomas L Masson, the well | you s# Ask us for it known managing editor of Life and compiler of humorous anthologies, con- tributes an introduction, ¢ HAMPSHIRE It cost Life more than $12,000 to collect these stories. The reader may ||| | PAPER COMPANY have them for $1.25 net. By post, $1.36. South Hadley Falls LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY Ibs Massachusetts 17 West 31st Street, New York | NORTH CAROLINA | special ih! i | Center of Winter out-of-door life in the Middle South very- trees, flexible Pinehurst thi ae Four Excellent Hotels The Carolina opens for the season Nov. 20. Holly Inn opens Jan. 10; Berkshire and Harvard open Jan, 15. Three 18-hole golf courses, and one new 9-hole prac- tice course. Fairways have been much improved. Tennis. Horse Racing. Frequent trotting, running and steeple chasing by horses from private stables. Excellent new roads in a radius of 50 miles or more. Through Pullman Service from New York p . and Washington, via Seaboard Air Line. Only Dept. 2338 . : one night from Washington, Boston, Buffalo, n City. NV . A f Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. No consumptives received at Pinehurst. Send for illustrated booklet giving full information. General Office, Pinehurst, N. C. The Poet's Wife: sitoN, WILL YoU ANSWER THE PHONE? Leonard Tufts, Owner, Boston, Mass. I'M TOO BUSY comicbooks.com-