Life, 1918-04-04 · page 36 of 40
Life — April 4, 1918 — page 36: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertisement page** for Enos Fruit Salt, a digestive remedy, occupying the central image with accompanying copy about correcting "ill-effects of late dinners" and digestive complaints. The right column contains three separate, unrelated humor items and notices: 1. **"Memorable Days in History"** — A sentimental-comic list of a boy's notable childhood moments, from discovering a fire to hitting a baseball at a policeman's nose. The humor is in the mundane, mischievous nature of what constitutes his "memorable" days (opposite of actual historical events). 2. **"Getting Even"** — A brief courtroom joke about a judge's hearing and a touching anecdote about a wealthy racehorse owner who arranges his horse's peaceful death rather than risk it falling into hardship. 3. **"To Get Footage You Must Be There"** — Promotional material for Donald Thompson's book about photographing the Russian Revolution, emphasizing first-hand experience over secondhand reports. The page reflects typical *Life* magazine content: light satire, brief humor, and advertising seamlessly integrated.
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4 *3 DERIVATIVE § “Fresh as a Lark — mounting at break of day,” is the man who starts the morning with ENOS ‘FRUIT SALT” (Derivative Compound) A sparkling, reviving aperient which corrects the ill-effects of late dinners, relieves a heavy head, and removes the disagreeable aftermath due to errors in diet, over-smokiny. biliousness or constipation. An ideal corrective for every member of the family. @ Sold by Druggists Prepared only by J. C. ENO, Ltd., London, S. E., England Agents for the Continent of America : Harold F. Ritchie & Co., Ltd., 10, 12, 14 McCaul St., Toronto, Canada Would your lordship mind speaking Intle louder? There is an ecbo in court Tit- Bits. Getting Even in a Yorkshire a common, During a the speech th was in the mic defence, when Hixast Autre, a Mineola race horse, br is dead at twenty years of age—pain lessly. His master went first, leaving orders that lest the horse fall on evil days be be conducted into dreamland The incident strikes us as inspiring and It not ks so powerfully for ized man The Sun the love of animals in civ Memorable Days in History (According to Little Bobbie) THE day he discovered the fire in the lumber-yards and turned in the alarm, The day he sat on the seat next to the driver, and was allowed to exercise the fire horses for a whole block The day Uncle Alfred treated him to a box-seat at the ball game. The day he made a home-run—the ball he hit having landed on the nose of a policeman. The day he was introduced to a beautiful little girl from Belgium, and went right up and kissed her, The day the minister and his wife, who were invited to dinner, didn't come —and he was told to eat their dessert. The day he found a five-dollar gold- piece while shoveling the snow. The day he explained to company that his parents were inclined to quar- rel at times. The day he took first prize at school for selling Liberty Bonds. The day Aunt Prudence caught him hitching onto a brewery truck. The day he tried out his father’s corn-cob, To Get Footage |You Must Be There t Donald Thompson went to Russia to photograph anything interesting. He fell into the revolution and phot: graphed it. “Shot the revolution the phrase, for he got thousands oi feet of moving-picture film, You can't imagine pictures, or get them from some person who heard from a friend that so-and-so had happened; you have to be on the spot in the midst of things to get photos and “ footage.” Donald Thompson was in the mids of the Russian revolution, He went everywhere, favored by luck, supporte: by a camera experience on every front in Europe that is without paralle When he started from Russia, to fall into the biggest story he had ever dreamed of, he began writing newsy, humorous, vivid letters to his wife. he penetrated more deeply into the thrilling events in Rus: he found himself telling the story of the Russian revolution, in detail, as he saw it, as it happened. These letters make up 2 book called ‘DONALD THOMPSON IN RUSSIA.” It has 64 remarkable illustra- tions, is sold at all bookstores for $2.00 | published by The Century Co ‘ourth Avenue, New York City and 353 a A 4 Don't miss this book. It is an amazing accident. Once more: the name is “DONALD THOMPSON IN RUSSIA.”