Life, 1918-11-14 · page 30 of 34
Life — November 14, 1918 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate humor pieces reflecting early 20th-century American life: **"A Small Town Sunset"** satirizes provincial American taste. A sophisticated Eastern visitor admires a sunset's beauty; a local dismisses it as "not bad...for a little place like Hoopville"—mocking rural people's limited aesthetic appreciation and tendency to apologize for their surroundings. **"Imported Extras"** jokes about a diner serving foreign substances in stew, playing on period anxiety about immigrant workers and food quality/safety. **"Hard Luck"** references World War I censorship, where a soldier's girlfriend's letter had 16 of 19 postscripts removed by military censors—humorously suggesting romantic correspondence was heavily monitored for security reasons. The page also contains period advertisements for The Hollenden hotel in Cleveland and Hampshire Bond stationery, reflecting typical magazine advertising of the era.
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&¢ SSAUT SCISSORS » Aut NULLUS A Small Town Sunset It happened in a little town in Ohio. A visiting Easterner stood on the veran- da of a little hotel there watching the sun go down in a splendor of purple and gold. “ By Geo passive native lounging “he exclaimed to an im- post. isn’t it?” The ive ead a little and looked critically at the glowit “Not bad,” he drawled. “ for a little place like Hoopville, —Chicago Herald and American, A EOrgCoUS sunse slanted his ot bad Imported Extras Tue Diner: substance in my stew. Heao Warten: Thank you for y attention to it. There's some foreign The waiters e for these extras.—Boston Globe. 's neglect to ch inthe United U, S. Patent Office. the Postal U ues prior to 1910 righted, ings, Fett For Repr © of cha er Lan, to be affec HEN in Cleveland the pl: European Plan with Bath: For One Person, $2 to $5. For Two Persons, $3 to $6. With Twin Beds, $4 to $6. Suites at various prices. 800 Rooms. lace to stay is at The} Hollenden. _ It’s location is central—right in the. heart of shopping, business and theatrical districts and/ easily accessible to all terminals of travel. | The excellence of its cuisine, service and accommoda- tions is unchallenged. lr Unidentified Recently, during the operations of the British Egyptian expeditionary force ig Palestine, a town to the south of Beer. sheba was captured, and in it was dis. covered a splendid example of mosaig pavement. The excavation of it was pliced is charge of a chaplain, and while the work was proceeding some human bones were discovered. Elated at the find, the padre i diately wired to great’ headquart ing: Have found the bones of Shortly after the reply came tick “Unable to trace Saint in casiselty list Obtain particulars of regimental number and regiment from his identity disk —Detroit Free Press, Hard Luck Butt: This war is fierce. Jiu: What's wrong now? “Why, I got a letter from my gil who is ‘over there,’ to-day, and the cen sor cut out sixteen of the nineteen post. scripts in it."—Yonkers Statesmas t is for sale by all newsdealers in Great Britain and may be obtaine cities in the wor! eign trades The Gift for a Gentleman For Christmas, what gives a man greater pride and satisfaction than personal stationery, roperly engraved with his name and addre The speaks quietly, agreeably of his cha and taste—of his desire to be well repres wherever his letters appear for him. Particularly is this true when the par Old Hampshire Bond —“The Stationery Gentleman.” Its reputation is widely k: and instantly recognized. It is not a day too early to ask your sta for it now. The leading stationers carr: stock. If yours does not, we will see that you are supplied. HAMPSHIRE PAPER COMPANY South Hadley Falls Massachusetts Makers of ApampshiveMioul: comicbooks.com