Life, 1919-06-19 · page 4 of 42
Life — June 19, 1919 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising for Life magazine itself**, disguised as editorial content. The cherubic figure wearing a top hat depicts Cupid or a cherub character, labeled "I'm Obeying That Impulse!" The advertisement announces Life's "great Medical Number" scheduled for June 26th, 1919, directed at doctors. Below, a secondary advertisement promotes Life subscriptions to soldiers, framing the magazine as homesickness prevention for troops stationed overseas during the post-WWI occupation period. The page lacks traditional political satire. Instead, it uses whimsical illustration and patriotic appeals to drive subscriptions among both medical professionals and military personnel during the immediate post-war era.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
“I’m Obeying That Impulse!” To Doctors Everywhere: The great Medical Number of Lire is coming next week. Every doctor has his day. This day is scheduled for June 26th 1919. For the Army of Occupation As a preventive of homesickness, nothing could be better than Lire, the paper from home. More than two hundred thousand of our men remain over there, and Lire is the first paper a soldier boy asks for. Sick or well, he wants it, whether in hospital, in camp or overseas. Subscriptions for them at domestic rate of $3 a year, provided no local foreign address is given. Open only to new subseril scriptions renewed at this rate. LIFE, 17 West 31st Street, New York One Year, $5.00. (Canadian, $5.52; Foreign, $6.04 comicbooks.com