Life — March 18, 1920 — page 50: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising content** from an early 20th-century American magazine, with minimal satirical cartoons. The main advertisements include: 1. **Forhans toothpaste** — promoting gum health with medical claims (reflecting early 1900s advertising that made direct health assertions before FDA regulations) 2. **Omaha Chamber of Commerce** — a civic booster ad highlighting Omaha's agricultural wealth and inviting business investment, with a map showing the city's location 3. **Electric vacuum cleaners** — offering home delivery and installment payments ($3.50 after trial, balance on easy monthly payments), listing multiple popular brands of the era (Apex, Eureka, Hoover, etc.) 4. **"A Song of Cities"** — a poem celebrating major world cities (New York, Petrograd, Madrid, London, Paris, San Francisco) 5. **"Futures"** — a brief text piece about U.S. political divisions The page reflects **consumer culture and national expansion** themes typical of the period, with no significant political satire visible.