Life, 1919-04-24 · page 3 of 46
Life — April 24, 1919 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **primarily an advertisement**, not satirical content. It promotes the Ruud Automatic Gas Water Heater, marketed as providing "Hot Water All Over The House" on demand. The illustration shows three women performing household tasks (laundry, dish washing, ironing) surrounded by steam, depicting the product's benefit: instant hot water for domestic work. The ad emphasizes modern home comfort and convenience—key selling points for early 20th-century appliances. The accompanying product image shows the heater's decorative cylindrical design. The text highlights reliability, availability in multiple cities, and positions the product as essential to a "modern" home. This reflects the era's marketing strategy: associating new technology with domestic efficiency and elevated social status.
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HOT WATER All You Want Whenever You Want It HE RuudAutomatic Gas WaterHeater no lukewarm water, no three minutes of furnishes steaming hot water in any steam and thena rapidly cooling supply, quantity desired at any hour of the day but—summer and winter, day and night— or night that you turn the faucet. all the hot water you want, the instant you Perfect hot-water service, the only kind want it. that is any good at all, is the kind you get That is real home comfort, and no Ameri- from the Ruud Water Heater. No waiting, can home can be called modern without it. RUUD AUTOMATIC GAS WATER HEATER “‘Hot Water All Over The House’’ The Ruud Water Heater burns gas, natural or convenient place, and feeds hot water to kitchen, laundry, anificial. It burns only while the water is running, bathtoom—every place that there is a hot-water faucet except for a small pilot-lightthat keepsitalways ready Made!" sizes to Bt any home. fer action. Turning on the water turns on the gas. A Word About the Reliability of The water passes through heated copper coils and Ruud Water Heaters leties 10 yeu freah, Htuamsing fot, Tacning of the The Ruud Automatic Water Heater isa thorouthly tried and proved success. Well 125,000 in water turns off the gas. soundly estab- The temperature for which you set a Ruud Water thical basis, and Heater automatically regulates the amount of gas = product, (Read Water Fr pee ind f ave been in successful operation for years. ‘onsumed to just that necessary to maintain the Ruud branch offices are located in 28 cities. Ifyou live nm temperature, one, call and see the Ruud for yourself. If you cannot cal How much fuel do you use in heating water now? —_ 4f€88 4 postal or letter to the nearest branch and ask for . You probably don’t know. The cost of the Ruud is Free Ruud Booklet about the cost of two cigars or a “movie” show daily. which completely describes this splendid heater and tells all The Ruud Water Heater saves your time. It requires about the Ruud hot-water service. Any plumber, gas Practically no attention. It stands in the basement, or other company, of gas-appliance store can install it. See the Ruud at any of these branch offices and agencies : Aeeata, 12 Marietta Stevet tee Geciasati i67 Elm street jai New Orleans. Street Tole. 240 Brie Street Geminnd, 104 Ructid Avenue K City, Mo. 1 Philadelphia, 1938 Market street jagton, TH Thirteenth St. N,W RUUD MANUFACTURING CO., Dept. C., Pittsburgh, Pa. Makers of Standardized Gas Water Hea RUUD MANUFACTURING CO. of Canada, 371 Adelaide Street, W., Toronto comicbooks.com