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This page contains three main advertisements and literary content from an early 20th-century Life magazine. **Left side:** A Ford automobile ad promoting the Stromberg Carburetor as a performance upgrade, using poetic language ("like the wings of the wind") to market faster acceleration and easier starting to Ford owners. **Center:** Two pieces of content—a literary poem titled "Ave Atque Vale" by Benjamin De Casseres personifying alcoholic drinks (Vodka, Barleycorn, Absinthe) as figures heading toward "the Country of Rescinded Habits" (Prohibition), and below it, a news item about "Powder in Shoes as Well as Guns," reporting that Allen's Foot-Ease powder is being added to soldiers' comfort kits during WWI because healthy feet improve military performance. **Right side:** An advertisement for the Stratford Hotel in Chicago, emphasizing its lakefront location and central position for accessing the city's attractions. The page reflects wartime conditions and Pre-Prohibition anxieties alongside consumer culture.

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GET YOUR FORD AWAY LIKE THE WINGS OF THE WIND Equip that Ford \! of yours with a New Stromberg Carburetor. Thea there'll be 10 more pottering The Stromberg Carburetor FOR FORDS guarantees quick, sure, easy starting in any weather Gives the richest of gas mixtures and tives it guick. Shoots this highly combustible yapor into the motor jan of a spark. “off it foes.’ You get immediate action No hanging bre You're away like the andatil up tothe high ajiy. And you get Rios a eerat Kimtie Areatest accelerati It has established and holds by many smiles and minutes the worl or Foden STROMBERG MOTOR DEVICESCO. Dept 812.64 2505. Ccags A Martyr Henry's wife is musical. Occasionally she drags Henry with her to a concert. The other night it was to hear a famous When the programme f finished she whispered: you must admit it is wonder- those men have been playing together for eight ye A look of incredulity relieved the expression on Henry's face. ight years?” he repeated. “ Surely we've been here longer than that!” —Argonaut, | feet, corns, bunions, blisters or callouses, The Platts- Ave Atque Vale! ALF-way in this our mortal life 1 came to a Wood. And I saw Little Vodka, with be- draggled hair and bare feet, leading Old Uncle John Barleycorn, crimson- beaked and tottering, toward the Coun- try of Rescinded Habits. Old John was blind and doddered of by-gone Rough Houses and ancient Scuffles. Little Vodka hiccoughed little notes of encouragement to her uncle between snatches of song of Notorious Nights on the Volga. And preceding them, with lack-lustre eye and bay-leaf fallen over his tat- tered green coat, went the Demon Ab- sinthe, mumbling an old Parisian chanson, Far off, with anxious eyes and tear- stained cheeks, huddled together on a hill, sat Gambrinus and Bacchus, who watched the procession through the Wood with fearsome glance. And the Moon grinned and the Little Brook purled its glee. Benjamin De Casseres. ECENT discoveries by archacolo- gists demonstrate that the reason Sappho committed suicide was that for feo consecutive weeks she failed to secure her copy of Lire, through the failure of her favorite slave to order it in advance from the village news- deal J POWDER IN SHOES AS WELL AS GUNS Foot=Ease to Be to Be Added to Equipment of Hospital Corps at Fort Wayne. Under the above heading the Detroit Free Press, among other things says: “The theory is that sol- diers whose feet are in good condition can walk fur- ther and faster than soldiers who have corns and bunions incased in rawhide.” One war relief committee reports, of all the things | sent out last year in their Comfort Bags or “ Kits,” Allen's Foot=Ease received the most praise from the soldiers and men of the navy. The British and French troops in Europe, and the American troops use it, because it takes the Friction from the Shoe and freshens the feet. There is no foot comforter | equal to Allen's Foot c, the antiseptic powder | to be shaken into the shoes and sprinkled in the foot- bath, the standard remedy for over 25 years for hot tired, aching, perspiring, smarting, swollen, tender amp Manual, chapter on General Adviee, morning shake a little talcum pow: ¢ in cach shoe.” Why not order a dozen or more 25¢. boxes to-day from your Druggist | WHEN IN CHICAGO IT COSTS NO MORE TO LIVE AT THE STRATFORD HOTEL— ON THE LAKEFRONT ¥) HIS famous hotel is a locatedon Michigan oe Jackson Boule- ey overlooking, Grant Park and the a an ideal hotel site. Everything, radiates from this centre —the financial, wholesale and retail districts, the clubs, theatres and other points of interest. Michigan Boulevard is the Breat paradestreet of the West. Chicago life centers here. Because of the asphalt paved bou- evards and restricted traffic, there 1s paige noise No street cars pass. And there are no buildings between The Stratford and the lake to hinder the cool lake breezes, For $1.50 per day and up you may have all The Stratford Hotel adva- tages Our free Chica}o Guide, with map and pictures, will be mailed on re- quest. Write for your copy today. or Department Store to mail to your friends in train- ing camps and in the arm >