Life, 1920-09-02 · page 9 of 52
Life — September 2, 1920 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a **full-page advertisement** for Charms candy, not political satire or editorial content. The page presents Charms Pure Fruit Tablets as "The World's Purest and Finest Fruit Candies in Eleven Luscious Flavors." The visual composition includes a decorative fruit basket with a black bow and a product display box showing stacked Charms packages. The ad emphasizes flavor variety (orange, lemon, raspberry, wild cherry, etc.) and suggests consuming methods—crunching or letting them melt. There is **no political cartoon or satire** on this page. It's straightforward commercial advertising using typical early-20th-century marketing language about product purity and availability in "handy packages, banquet tins and cartons." The decorative styling reflects period advertising aesthetics.
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Tee Worcos Purest ano Finest Fruit Canoies In Eceven Luscious FLavors HINK of how your favorite fruit delights the Crunch them between your teeth or let them palate when in season! slowly melt in your mouth. Whichever way you The memory still lingers. prefer to eat them —The Flavor Cho Recall the actual taste with Charms. Charms— — Sold most everywhere. In handy pac made of pure sugar and fresh, luscious fruit flavors tins and cartons. b —are always in season. RASPBERRY WILD CHERRY HOREHOUND BUTTER THE FLAVOR CHARMS, comicbooks.com