Life, 1920-06-03 · page 50 of 52
Life — June 3, 1920 — page 50: what you’re looking at
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This page contains **advertisements and one editorial cartoon**, typical of 1920s Life magazine content. **Advertisements:** - **Milo Cigarettes**: Luxury smokes with gold tips, pitched as delicately scented - **Huyler's Chocolates**: Bon-bons and chocolates for various moods - **Motrola**: An electric phonograph motor attachment allowing dancers to continue without manually winding records—marketed as modern convenience for jazz-age parties **Editorial Cartoon** (bottom right): Titled "The Ingenious Junk-Dealer Drums Up Trade," it depicts a junk dealer collecting discarded items—appearing to be old winding cranks from phonographs—presumably to resell or recycle. This satirizes both commercial waste and the rapid obsolescence of technology, as the Motrola advertisement above directly made manual phonograph cranks unnecessary, generating business for salvage dealers. The page humorously juxtaposes consumer innovation with waste, typical of 1920s satirical commentary on modern consumption.
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DELICATELY SCENTED GOLD TIPPED CIGARETTES 2r lO BOX DELUXE OF 100 $259 Ifyour dealer cannot surely you.wnte Dept.M 1790 Broadway NewYork GD IN CANADA, ___ $8 CATHCART STREET : MONTREAL Shere ts always a Thu tyler Variety do fit the mood or taste of the ON WITH THE DANCE! You need not stop dancing to wind the phono. | graph:—the MOTROLA will do that electrically, without the danger of over-winding. Throw away the troublesome old winding era and insert the MOTROLA. Puton you ite jazz record, touch the button, and the cv er ning’s uninterrupted fun begins. The MOTROLA can be instantly attached to any make of phonograph, without marring the most expensive cabinet. Get your dealer to demonstrate the MOTROLA or a card will bring you the name of the nearest MOTROL. F dealer JONES-MOTROLA, Inc. 29 West 35th Street 57 East Jackson Blvd. 315 South Bway A New York Chicago THE INGENIOUS JUNK-DEALER DRUMS UP TRADE comicbooks.com