Life, 1920-05-20 · page 44 of 48
Life — May 20, 1920 — page 44: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, dominated by a large W.L. Douglas shoe company advertisement featuring the company founder's portrait. The ad emphasizes direct factory-to-consumer sales eliminating "middlemen's profits" and claims superiority through 67 years of shoemaking experience and fair pricing across all locations. The minor content includes: **"History Repeated"** — a poem satirizing American political isolationism. A Washington politician jumps into a bush to avoid war, then jumps into another to "keep us out o' peace," suggesting hypocritical or ineffectual foreign policy. **"No Wonder!"** — a brief joke about digestive discomfort from sitting between a Californian and Floridian, likely poking fun at regional American differences or stereotypes about those states' climates. The page also lists recent book publications and contains an advertisement for Allen's Foot-Ease powder, playing on the preposition distinction in the title.
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AT and “ON” are Different Prepositions | gave me such welief as Allen's So writes a Florida resid | for feet that smart, ack and hot Tse Allen's Fe then shake it in your sl. t from the shoe, freshens the feet 1 SHOES HOLDS ITS SHAPE” 3450 $900 & 5{02° SHOES L332: W. L. Douglas shoes are sold in 107 of our own stores direct from factory to the wearer. All middlemen’s profits are eliminated. W. L. Douglas $9.00 and $10.00 shoes are absolutely the best shoe values for the money in this country. W. L. Douglas name and the retail price stamped on the bottom guarantees the best shoes in style, comfort and service that can be produced for the price. Stamping the price on every pair of shoes Tre quality of W. L. Douglas product is guar- as a protection against high prices and unreasonable profits is only one example of the constant endeavor of W. L. Douglas to protect his customers. W. L. Douglas name on shoes is his pledge that they are the best in materials, workmanship and style possible to produce at the price. Into every pair go the results of sixty-seven years experience in making shoes, dating back to anteed by more than 40 years experience in making fine shoes. The smart styles are the “leaders in the fashion centersof America. They are made in a well-equipped factory at Brock- ton, Mass., by the highest paid, skilled shoe- makers, under the direction and supervision of experienced men, all working with an honest determination to make the best shoes for the price that money can buy. The retail prices the time when W. L. Douglas was a lad of are the sameeverywhere. They cost no more seven, pegging shoes. in San Francisco than they do in New York. W. L. Douglas shoes are for sale by over 9000 shoe dealers Capt. L besides our own stores. If your local dealer cannot supply Nash. you, take no other make. Order direct fromthefactory. Sen for booklet telling how to order shoes by mail, postage free. by Harold Begbie CAUTION. — Insist upon having W. L. Douglas on : al Ml, Prt TS ‘npn shoes. ‘The name and price is plainly stam Z, ) oon the sole. If it has been changed or mutilated, J ist SPARE STREET, Real Diary of the Wt BEWARE OF FRAUD, BROGETON - - Mass. Henry G. Shuts, any.) History Repeated HERE was aman in Washing-town And he was wise—yea, more He yumpt into a bi And “keppus « Piet ous wgour Carcl 12ck Cree 3ut when he saw what he had done (Will wonders never ce: Yumpt he into another bush Zhe Ran. ats cvcefieltians ance attest fore for And—kept us out o° peace No Wonder! Omis: You say that something at the ban- last night disagreed with you? Cuestex: Yes; had too much climate. Sat between a California native son and a man from Florida! 3” York Evening Post. comicbooks.com