Life, 1920-09-02 · page 40 of 52
Life — September 2, 1920 — page 40: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct pieces of content: **Main Advertisement (Top):** A WASCO garage heating system ad featuring two women in a car. The appeal emphasizes winter convenience—easy engine starts, no frozen radiators, lower cost than street car fare. This reflects 1920s-era concerns about automobile ownership challenges in cold climates. **Satirical Article (Right):** "When the Railroad Rates Rise" mocks railroad economics through the fictional story of Silas Quincy, a wealthy financier who's so rich he can afford a railroad ticket to Chicago—presented as extraordinary because ticket prices have risen so dramatically over thirty years that ordinary people can no longer travel by rail. The satire suggests railroad rates have become prohibitively expensive, making train travel a luxury only the ultra-wealthy can afford. His departure is treated as a historical event worthy of commemoration, with tickets to be displayed in a state capitol alongside other artifacts of a vanishing era. The joke critiques the railroad industry's pricing practices during this period.
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“I Drive Our Car All Winter Because— It’s Easy to Start with WASCO Heating the Garage” «QO waits, no delays when we want to go to the theatre, shopping, to catch a train. Our car starts the sam in summer, because we have a WASCO Garage Heating System.” “We never have any frozen radiators or cracked water jackets,—our engine always has plenty of power, and we don’t have any of the troubles that our neighbors have who do not heat their garages. Heat your garage with a self-regulating WASCO, A complete hot water system with pipe and fittings. Any handy man can set it up—no expensive steam-fitter necessary. It burns but few cents worth of coal a day— Jess than street car fare. Write for a catabg that Alustrates and exolsina the fuel economp end automate temperature regulation of WO. W. A. Scuteit Mrc. Co., Inc., “Sfancuse SN Orwinators of apectat apstem for garages. W280 ts abo used for heating offices, stores, cottages, etc. Some good terrttorp open for ive diwtr@ators. THREE WISE MEN Send for a Complete Catalogus MASONIC BOO! Jewelry and Go REDDING & CO, : s Dept. L. 200 Fifth Avenue, When the Railroad Rates Rise (From the Day PLaxet for Septemb 15, 1950) EST OLYMPIA, Nortit Daxora- Silas Quincy, the genius who has made number of millions fre a tion of foreign excha: to-day decide: to splurge his entire fortune on a rail road ticket to Chicago, It is the first ti since the mileage rates started to tis thirty years ago that anyone has attained sufficient wealth to employ this form o travel, and the railroads have therefor been deserted, except for the engineers conductors, trainmen, directors and Inter state Commerce Commissioners, who ridd free. The departure of Mr. Quincy from now obsolete Union Depot was the oce, sion for a demonstration such as has sel dom been equalled in this locality. The intrepid voyageur was the recipient of many tokens of admiration and esteem] from his fellow citizens, and was joce larly wished Godspeed hy the town wags His railway and Pullman tickets werd autographed by all the members of the West Olympia Board of Trade, and will later be placed on exhibition in the stat capitol at Bismarck together with the las all-wool suit, the last cocktail shaker, th last five-cent piece and a package of Un lucky Stroke cigarettes. Mr. Quincy does not explain how he i tends to return, but it is safe to assumq that the now crippled condition of hi finances will preclude the possibility of his traveling further by railroad. He wil] probably be forced to resort to the cheag) air route, FOR INDIGESTIG comicbooks.com,