Life, 1920-03-11 · page 5 of 40
Life — March 11, 1920 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains primarily **advertising rather than political satire**. The main content promotes "A.B.A." traveler's cheques from Bankers Trust Company, addressing a practical concern: how travelers could safely carry money when banks didn't know them and credit was unreliable. The ad uses a relatable scenario—a stranger in a distant place with a rejected check—to sell the solution. The left side includes a Ludens cough medicine ad and a Boston Garter hosiery ad. At bottom, "The Modern Restaurant" section appears to be humor about a waiter's response to a customer requesting the cook. The only potentially satirical element is the small cartoon titled "The Straw That Broke the Toper's Back" (bottom right), though its meaning is unclear from this image alone.
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UDENS GIVE QUICK RELIEF FOR A EAd A New Terror Added to Death <1) you afraid to die, George?” A No, Edward, I am not afra to die. Dying grows more attractive every time | make. my me-tax re- wort. But 1 should hate like h—l tu have my obit y printed in a New York paper while that impudent under- taker continues to run those insuffer- able advertisements of his blankity, Wank o blank Funeral Church. He just now in the afternoon Why such journals as the 1 Post, which has had a calarly decorous and interesting column, should have permitted unconscionable ghoul and his co- ting hyenas to prowl among the it people beats me, hy Doesn't it beat you, Edward?” George; it does beat me, and isn't for that new blot on the Constitution, I'd buy you a drink. Is it right, George, that just now, when » Constitution is so busy making life unpalatable, those chattering bander- logs should be allowed to make death ridicule “No, Edward; it is not right. Let's MANY THINGS HAVE HELPED TO MAKE TRAVEL PLEASANT, BUT NOTHING No one thing has contributed more to the pleasure of traveling—in the United States, in Europe, in the Orient or in South America—than the Travelers’ Cheques of the American Bankers Association, popularly known as “A. B. A.” Cheques. Imagine yourself in a strange place, far from home, where the banker does not know you and the hotel-keeper is sospichus because somebody recently passed a bogus check on him and where your credit has no standing with the people you meet. What good would your check do under such circumstances? None whatever, unless somebody “took a chance” out of pity for you and cashed the check or draft. Banks don’t want their customers to be placed in such do something about it.” ‘ eed, George. The bushes yon- der have fine straight switches. If you have a knife we will cut a couple.” (Exit both, towards the bushes.) embarrassing positions, so they arrange to help them to have as pleas- ant a trip as money can provide by selling to them "A. B. A.” Cheques — ‘the best funds for travelers” They are safe, convenient and comfort-promoting. Write for full information to the BANKERS TRUST COMPANY New York City The Modern Restaurant RATE DINER: Send the cook, in here. Warter: = Certainly, sir. Shall T send in the automatic roaster, the me- chanical fryer or the electrical toaster? HIS nation has no more solemn obligation than healing the hurts of our wounded and restoring our dis- abled men to civil life and opportunity. —President Wilson, Nov. 29, 1918. GEORGE FROST CO., BOSTON, MAKERS OF Velvet Grip Hose Supporters for Women, Misses and Children THE STRAW THAT BROKE THE TOPER'S BACK comicbooks.com