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Life — August 25, 1921 — page 32: Life, 1921-08-25

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This page is predominantly **advertising**, with small satirical humor sections interspersed. The main content includes ads for American Express Travelers Cheques (emphasizing safe money transport), Bayer Aspirin, Bell-ans indigestion remedy, Cortez cigars, and The Cascades nightclub in New York. The satirical sections are brief, multi-panel jokes: - **"When Dreams Come True"**: A gambler dreams of hats, bets on a horse named "Hatteras," but loses when "Sombrero" wins instead—mocking the unreliability of gambling "systems." - **"Passing the Buck"**: A boy gives candy to another boy, claiming it's not from friendship but to stop flies bothering him—satirizing false altruism. - **"The Altruist"**: A bald barber won't use his own baldness cure, claiming he sacrifices his appearance to show clients the "horror" of hairlessness—mocking hypocritical marketing. These jokes target human foibles: magical thinking, insincere generosity, and dishonest salesmanship.

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rs The Invisible SAFE that accompanies you: The U. S. dollar, while at a premium among the moneys of the world, is not proof against loss or theft. It remained for a great American Institution to provide a simple and per- sonal means for protecting the traveler’s funds against this loss or theft. American Express Travelers Cheques are “the insured money of all nations.” Convenient, simple, and handy to use, they are an absolute necessity for the trav- eler, summer vacationist or tourist of the world. They command the super-ser- vice of the American Express Company’s world organization, thru its offices and thousands of correspondents everywhere. In the United States and Canada, use the Dollar Cheques in $10, $20,’ $50, $100 and $200 amounts; in ‘Great Britain, £5 and £10 Sterlin, French’ Franc Cheques for and 400 Francs. Or, as an extra service and convenience our new Travelers Cheque Exchange Order for $500, convertible without cost into Travelers Cheques. Buy them at Express offices or at your own bank. For all journeys secure your steamship, tickets, hotel reservations, and itiner- aries, ‘or plan your cruise or tour thru ‘the American Express Travel De- partment. AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY 65 BROADWAY, NEW YORK International Banking—Shipping— Travel and Foreign Trade . Cheques; rance, 200 \in GH 4 125 cel WOO > 6 Bett-ans lL Nag | Hot water : Sure Relief B FOR INDIGESTION When Dreams Come True One night “Smiling Dick” Carney, a professional turf gambler, had a dream. The air was thick with hats. Headgear of every description floated about in dis- ordered profusion. The following after- noon, on arrival at the race-track, the first name on the day’s list of entries was Hatteras. It was a four-to-one shot, and Carney invested heavily on the tip. The race started. Hatteras trailed slightly at the quarter. He was neck and neck with the leader at the half. He passed the three-quarter post half a length ahead. Then the entire bunch thundered down the home stretch past the exultant gambler. Carney was some distance from the post and could not de- termine the winner. In a moment the result was announced. “Sombrero -wins!"—Everybody's. Passing the Buck Kinpty Otp Woman: You are a very nice little boy to give your candy to your little friend. YouTHrut Harp Guy: Aw, he ain’t no friend of mine. “Then why did you candy?” “The flies was botherin’ me.” —Youngstown Telegram. give him the The Altruist Sceptic: If you have such an infal- lible remedy for baldness, why don’t you use it? SusrLe Barper (very bald): Ah, sir, I sacrifice my appearance to bring ’ome to clients the ‘orror of ’airlessness. —Punch. Plenty of Time First Littte Gree: name, Annie? Seconp Littte Giri: yet; I ain’t married. —Columbia (8. C.) State. Don't know Girls, Girls! Heapine tn Newspapers: “Girl car- | penter drives nail like lightning.” The meaning probably is she never hits twice in the sam place—Buffalo Express. If drinking interferes with your busi- ness, tell the boss where you get it. —Weall Street Journal. FOR _ g MEN OF BRAINS IGARS -MADE AT KEY WEST.— Ne CLEA HAVANA What's your last pirin Then It’s Genuine Unless you see the name ‘“Bayer’’ on tablets, you are not getting gen- uine Aspirin prescribed by physi- cians for 21 years and proved safe by millions. Always say “Bayer.” Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid The (Uscades Dining Dancing Continuous music. Bub- bling gayety; sparkling life. Cool, refreshing — BSW on the roth floor of The BILTMORE NEW YORK IMPORTING CO. 6 East 45th St., New York 5 Made from only the young leaves of exceptionally fine Turkish tobacco Packed in cedar chests of 100. NUMBER ONE—$3.25 per hundred! Plain, Go'd’and Cork tips L QUALITY —$4.50 per hundred in t. Gold tips motic hard. comicbooks.com