Life — June 15, 1922 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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# Analysis This page is primarily a **life insurance advertisement**, not satire or political commentary. It's from *Life* magazine (June 15, 1922) and promotes The Prudential Insurance Company of America. The circular image shows the Rock of Gibraltar with text "THE PRUDENTIAL HAS THE STRENGTH OF GIBRALTAR"—a metaphorical claim about the company's stability and reliability. The advertisement presents three insurance policy outcomes: death (lump sum payment), disability (monthly payments), or old age (lump sum at age 60). The tagline "One of Three Things Will Happen" emphasizes life's inevitable outcomes and positions insurance as financial protection. The closing slogan, "If every Wife knew what every Widow knows, every Husband would be insured," appeals to domestic security concerns typical of early 20th-century insurance marketing.