Life, 1920-01-08 · page 35 of 44
Life — January 8, 1920 — page 35: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct advertisements/content items: **Kodak Trademark Advertisement**: The main content is Eastman Kodak Company's legal notice warning consumers and retailers against counterfeit or mislabeled Kodak products. The company asserts that "Kodak" is their registered trademark and cannot be applied to non-Kodak goods. The famous slogan "If it isn't an Eastman, it isn't a Kodak" emphasizes brand protection. This reflects early 20th-century concerns about knockoff products and trademark infringement—a consumer protection issue. **Whiting-Adams Brushes Ad**: A smaller advertisement promoting household brushes for institutional cleaning. **"Much Worse" Humor Column**: A brief satirical piece about marriage consequences, using the format of a mother-daughter dialogue mocking hasty marriage decisions. The page primarily addresses trademark protection and consumer fraud rather than political satire, reflecting commercial and domestic humor typical of Life's content from this era.
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If you ask at the store for a Kodak camera, or Kodak film, or other Kodak goods and are handed something not of our manufacture you are not getting what you specified, which is obviously unfair both to you and to us. eer | “Kodak” is our registered and the human mind. The world is full of . wuriy bine of ls, Ree. lb common law trademark and cannot be One of the most pathetic things that can happen is to hear an alarm clock | . « going off all by itself in a room, long | rightly applied except to goods of our after you know that the owner has left the house. et ee manufacture. journey, and taken an earlier train than he at first intended. It may be y morning, and he has set out early, on a sudden inspira- sit a distant pool or stream *Travemarx: Any symbol, mark, name or other characteristic of arbitrary indication secured to the user by a legal registration, adopted and used, as by a manufacturer or merchant to designate the goods he manufactures or sells and to distinguish them from the goods of 1 no one near to notice or | competitors, Sranparv Dictionary, it, no one to speed it on its ¢ next task that it is ready to perform. not know whether to pity the little devil or to praise the thought- less lack of sluggishness of its mas- . ; 9 PY ter, You are up against the ever-recur- If E ’ , Ki ds 14 ring problem of dogs and clocks that it 1sn t an asian, it li t ad CAG he bark and ring when they are not wanted, when no one listeth or cares a cuss. Yet only a person entirely de- void of all p: i i d Used of praise forthe fitful ae EASTMAN KODAK CO., Rochester, N.Y, dock. Will Herford. where he knows by experience that the eno silly Sunday laws. You aithful little clock whanging SHE ADVERTISED FOR HOUSEKEEPERS AND GOT Much Worse WHITING-ADAMS Motner: If you marry him in haste HOUSEHOLD BRUSHES Davonraxe Wall Toast bear to Gta of another girl repenting at leisure with i him.—Sydney Bulletin, cleanliness, Whiting-Adams Brushes are positive dirt and dust eradicators. 54 * Basd bor Maand Lnoretee A puitosorny of life is something you me a ee t ton, U.S.A are always intending to live by, and if for O you write a book you make the hero live by it, poor wretch. EE —New York Evening Sun. comicbooks.com