Life, 1919-05-22 · page 36 of 42
Life — May 22, 1919 — page 36: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains four commercial advertisements: 1. **Gray & Davis Automobile Lamps** - promoting starting and lighting systems for automobiles, emphasizing quality manufacturing in Boston. 2. **White Mountain Refrigerators** - highlighting their scientific design and widespread adoption ("In Over a Million Homes"). 3. **Bell-Ans** - an antacid remedy for indigestion, marketed with a simple illustration. 4. **Herbert Tareyton London Cigarettes** and **Cortes Cigars** - tobacco product advertisements. The page also includes a **letter to the editor** from a reader in France (dated April 13, 1919) praising Life's satirical stance on Americanism and criticizing Prohibition—but this is reader correspondence, not editorial content. There are no political cartoons or caricatures on this page. The historical value lies in the advertisements themselves, which reveal what products and health concerns dominated 1919 American consumer culture.
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White Mountain Refrigerators “The Chest With the Chill in It” They are built on scientific principles, and have eared for themselves the universal and enthusiastic approval of that great final Judge—the 4 PUBLIC. Sold in every city and important town in the United States. Send for handsome catalogs and booklets. In Over a Million Homes MAINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Nashua, N. H. Established 1874 6 BELL-ANS Hot water ; 22 | Sure Relief ELL“ANS FOR INDIGESTION Starting Lighting Lamps Quality BBUILT into every system and backed by exceptional facilities and an organization of highly skilled operatives GRAY & DAVIS, BOSTON, MASS. From “Over There” To tHe Epitor or Lire—Sir: I have just received your Bolshevik number of March 2oth, and I feel I must write you a line of thanks for the joy it Americans down here in the Midi, Itis so ylad to laugh, and alas! we have not laughed much or often during these past four years, when we have been face to face with the most heart-breaki tions that a human brain could imagi Though the war is over, maybe, we are all worried about the outcome of the Conference, and we are so very sorry that our President found it necessary to come back here again. His first re- ception was magnificent, but now the spirit of the people is turning very much in the other direction, and we hear from all sides remarks about his minding his own business in his own country. Tam very glad that Lire keeps up its witty campaign for true Americanism, and I assure you that we, over here, appreciate all of your sensible paragraphs against the nonsense that is going on in the United States. What folly it will be to tell a working-man that he is forbidden a glass of beer in the hot weather! or Ss given us The Best Horseshoeing Pi Needless wip othe blackinith ave on 2 of horses. sad ‘teu’ ts yous low, : ‘where olbeas lel. Cheap subainnct sees tre used at your's Save ind ry. Demand “ The Capewell” Nail, Used for years by the best horseshoers of the Country. zens that he c claret and water! I'm try will not look to hin of the free.” What has g nd liberal Const uthfully, dear L over here se moquent d. all, no one enjoys be’ Tam filled with ad gay little magazine, wh much to back us up du years of suffering and peri. gratefully OKA Paxs And Then? “PHERE is no time We must act wit iew,” says the idea he who lives in the p Millennium hovers Peerage in the Ui names of America's all to be found in the lar, annual subscribers ¢ ald kc. too, 1 as to hoy 5 Vd ‘< Herbert FOR Tas ors (iaaR “MADE AT KEY WEST: comicbooks.com