Life, 1920-11-18 · page 5 of 44
Life — November 18, 1920 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page is **primarily advertising**, not political satire. The main content includes: 1. **Dr. Wernet's Powder for False Teeth** - a period dental product advertisement 2. **Connecticut Ignition** - a major advertisement for the Connecticut Telephone & Electric Company, promoting their ignition system for automobiles. The ad emphasizes that their full-current spark provides superior power compared to inferior fuel mixtures. 3. **Pape's Diapesin** - a digestive aid advertisement 4. **"Back to Normal"** - a column of brief news headlines, apparently satirical or humorous in tone 5. **"A Culinary Artist"** - a brief anecdote about a Chinese cook The page contains no political cartoons or significant satire. It's a typical early 20th-century magazine layout mixing commercial advertisements with light news content.
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If false teeth trou- ble you, consult your dentist; but to quickly stop themisery of false teeth trouble, use Dr. Wernet’s eC Powder. Makes dental plates tight and putsagenuine joyment into eating, talking or laughing. Mildly antiseptic, pleasant in taste andsweetensthe breath. At drug or department stores. Wernet Dental Mfg. Co., 114 Beekman St., New York City 30c, 60c and $1.00 .WERNET’S POWDER FOR EALSE TEETH Back to Normal “QTRIKERS Battle with Police,” “Missing Trustee Caught in Maine,” Bond Theft Records Show Increase,” “Gunmen Cornered; Six Are Slain,” "Model Wants Ten Thousand Cash,” “Sportsman's Death a Mystery "Many Caught in Oil-Stock Crash,’ “Mob in Georgia Lynches Three,” ‘Kipnapped Boy Was Seen on Train,” “Says Drug Traffic Centers Here,” "Seek Police Chief's Bail in Vain “Heirs Break Will of Financier,” Yeath in Wake of Taxi Ride,” ‘Recount Order Signed by Court,” ‘Joke's on Me,’ Writes Suicid “Vice Committee Files Report, Mrs. Smythe-Brown Wins Divorce,” “Seven Held in Murder Plot,” “Slayer Dies Without Remorse,” Charges Witnesses Were Bought,” “Minister Led Double Life,” " State-Wide Graft Probe Under Way, “Jury Frees Dead Clubman’s Wife,” “President Says Bank Can't Pay,” “Profiteers Get Year in Jail,” “Thieves Take Mill's Entire Stock,” “Smugeled Wines Marked ‘Ginger A\ “Blackhand Bomb Wrecks City Block.” Crooked Dick was heard go mourn Days that saw mo war begun; So a world of joy forlorn Spies its shadow in the sun, Marc Connelly. PAPE’S: i erie 5 Large 60c Case—Drugstores DIAPEPSIN AIDS DIGESTION Full Current Gets First-Grade Power From Second-Grade Fuel ONNECTICUT Ignition raises the power quality of any fuel mixture—because its use of the full battery current insures an eager, intense spark which rapidly and com- pletely fires an inferior gas charge. The power you get from gasoline depends entirely upon the rapidity and completeness with which it is ignited. Today’s low-grade fuel is made to give up its last pound of power by the Connecticut's full-current spark, Full current is used with complete safety in the Connecticut System because of the auto- matic switch—which snaps off and checks the flow of current when the motor stops running. Thus there can be no burning out of the coil or draining of the battery. Think what full-current ignition means to your car —then look for Connecticut on the next car you buy. CONNECTICUT detecrric COMPANY Meriden Connecticut | A Culinary Artist A PROMINENT New England edu- cator tells of a Chinese cook in Manila who was innocently carrying about a reference, written by a saturnine Eng- lishman, with which he expected to secure a good position. The reference read as follows: “This. man cooked for me for six months; it seemed much longer. He left on account of illness—my illness.” comicbooks.com