Life, 1919-11-20 · page 32 of 46
Life — November 20, 1919 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **advertisements and satirical content** from an early 20th-century American magazine. The main **Eastman Kodak advertisement** uses gentle satire: it suggests that while friends can purchase almost any gift, a personal photograph remains uniquely valuable and irreplaceable—implying readers should hire local photographers before the December holiday rush. Below is a **joke** mocking commercialism: a man boasts about receiving a cigar brand that offers a gramophone as a premium prize. The punchline ridicules the premise—smoking 200 cigars would be unpleasant enough that he'd prefer a harp (suggesting heavenly escape). The **"Preparing for the Home-Coming"** section describes Indianapolis literary figures petitioning that publishers relocate from New York to Indiana, keeping local talent and jobs at home during economically difficult times. The remaining content is **product advertising** for The American Boy magazine and Vindex shirts/underwear, typical of period publications. Overall, the page reflects early 1900s consumer culture and regional economic anxieties.
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At Christmas Time Your friends can buy anything you can give them — except your photograph. There’s a Photographer in Your Town. (And he’s not as busy now as he will be in December. ) Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N .Y. Put THE AMERICAN BOY magazine first on ews-stands SPRAGUE PUBLISHING CO. No. § American Bldg. Detroit, Mich. Preparing for the Home-Coming NDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Nov. 21 The Federated Societies of Lite: Persons’ Relatives in convention hei decided to have a committee pre: their claims before any important magazines or book-publishing hot are moved from New York. The convention was unanimous that on account of the high cost of living the authors and editor ald have the benefit of working in home towns and that if any moves were made west ward they should have Indiana as their destination. One of the chief draw. backs of the publication of the major. ity of magazines and books in New York has always been that it kept so many Indiana people away from home, House-cleaners have been not in Booth Tarkington's home recentlt. This is regarded as significant “How do you like that cigar I gave you, old man? For two hundred bands off that brand they give you a gramo- phone.” “You don't say! If I smoked two hundred of those cigars I wouldn't want a gramophone; I'd want a harp."—Tit. “JIM DANDH| Copyright mit] wa ant Shirts or Athletic Ur wear-—they'rs RIGHT in comichooks.com)