Life, 1921-01-20 · page 3 of 36
Life — January 20, 1921 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is predominantly **advertising** rather than editorial content or satire. The major advertisements are: 1. **Colt's Firearms** (center): Promotes their automatic pistol with the tagline "Another Reason Why a Colt Automatic is 'the best that money can buy.'" The ad emphasizes safety features preventing accidental discharge. 2. **Piso's for Coughs & Colds** (lower left): A patent medicine advertisement. 3. **Europe 1921 Temple Tours** and **MotoBs Motors** (lower right): Travel and automotive ads. The page also includes a "Books Received" section and "The Biltmore" hotel advertisement. There is no discernible political cartoon or satirical content—this appears to be a standard magazine advertising page from the early 1920s promoting consumer goods and services.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
The BILTMORE ‘Where the social life of New York centers by day and evening OQ wS88 TO ALL THEATRES AND SHOPS Books Received Life of Lord Kitchener, by Sir George Arthur. (The Macmillan Company.) es, C. Alden, (Marshall Golf for Beginners—and Others, by Mar shall Whitlatch. (The Macmillan Company.) The Toll of the Sands, by Paul De Laney (Smith-Brooks Company, Denver.) The Geography of the World War and the Peace Treaties, by Frank M. McMurry (The Macmillan Company.) The Little Playbook, by Katharine Lord (Duffield & Co.) The Lure of the Manor, by Gertrude Grif- fths, (Duffield & Co.) Czechoslovak Stories. Translated by Sar- ka B, Hrbkova, (Duffield & Co.) At night—an intruding cough or cold a sore or hoarseness is soon relieved b gain no footho! serious, if yours is one of the million homes that keeps Piso’s always within reach on the medi- cine shelf. 3Se at your druggist’s Accidental Discharge is Impossible because of these Colt Safety features Cott’s Patent Fire Arms Merc. Co. Hartford, Conn. ’ Semces Cabs Revalrers Cat's Browsina) om . + (Browning) ‘Astonatie Another Child Actress Mas. Biurr (a popular pauper): Now, Fanny, what'll yer say when I takes yer into the kind lady's drorin’-room? Fanny (thoughtfully proficient): Oh, that’s an easy one. I'll put on a bewtiful lorst look an’ say, “ Muvver, this is ‘eaven!” —Punch. The Proper Thing Capoiz: Which club will you try, sir? Gotrer (whose ball has vanished down a rabbit hole): Give me one shaped like a ferret.—Boston. Transcript. EUROPE 1921 Parties enrolling now. Moderate prices. Moat interesting routes. Great success 1920. TEMPLE TOURS °"ycronk Mua! MOTORS 2 ALL SIZES MOTORS AND GENERATORS UP PTO SM. P: Largest ends Ma Orde Seni Met dain a sw Wt te teres ag ——— S comicbooks.com