Life, 1922-10-12 · page 4 of 36
Life — October 12, 1922 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is **not a political cartoon or satire page**, but rather a **product advertisement** for the Mimeograph duplicating machine, manufactured by A. B. Dick Company of Chicago and New York. The page features a photograph of a chrysanthemum flower at the top, used as a metaphor: just as one flower produces many seeds, one original document can produce thousands of copies via Mimeograph. The text promotes the machine's business applications—duplicating bulletins, letters, diagrams, and designs quickly and cheaply. It emphasizes the device's efficiency in reducing costs and increasing productivity for businesses and institutions. The advertisement closes by directing interested readers to contact local dealers or request booklet "W-10" for more information. This is straightforward commercial messaging, not satirical content.
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SRE KK SERRE EE SEER SSS Kite RES SEK CEES KEK eee One splendid flower may pro- duce a thousand seeds, but a single Mimeograph is capable of sowing intensively unnum- bered fields—for great harvests. It is a matter of unbounded surprise to many business men and edu- cators that the Mimeograph, as it is now perfected, has the wide range of action that makes possible the beating down of important costs and the speeding up of efficiency in so many remarkable ways. It is some- thing more than a rapid duplicator of bulletins, blanks, letters, designs, etc. It is a mighty cultivator of new business, an inspiriting device for the better development of old ground. Its easy duplication of all: kinds of diagrams, draw- ings and line-work on the same sheet with typewriting has added tremendously to its usefulness. And its great speed enables the turning out of forty and more thousands of finely printed pages Let our branch or in any work-day—at almost negligible cost. local dealer show you how it can infinitely multiply a speedy seed- Or send for booklet “Wel0” and all ing in your several fields. information to the A. B. Dick Company, Chicago—and New York. MINEGGRAPH LLB EE comicbooks.com