Life, 1923-01-18 · page 3 of 36
Life — January 18, 1923 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. It contains four distinct ads: 1. **Cunard Steam Ship Lines**: Promotes luxury ocean travel to Europe and the Mediterranean, featuring the ships Aquitania, Mauretania, and Berengaria. 2. **Hawaii Tourist Bureau**: Advertises six-day voyages to Hawaii from Pacific Coast ports, promoting year-round tropical travel. 3. **Life Magazine Subscription**: A self-promotional ad featuring a cherub figure, with the tagline "Get a Fresh Grip on LIFE." It pitches the magazine as a cure for exhausted nerves, costing $5 annually. 4. **Pennsylvania Lawn Mower Works**: Showcases quality lawn mowers for golf courses and estates, emphasizing durability and service. The page reflects 1920s consumer culture and leisure travel advertising aimed at affluent readers.
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Steam Ship Lines Tis on our steamers find the characteristic CUNARD TMOSPHEREwhich embodies the perfection ofAttention, | Service,Comfort, and Luxury. ° The Fastest Passenger Service De Luxe in the World AQUITANIA - MAURETANIA - BERENGARIA From New York every Tuesday to Cherbourg and Southampton. ther services to Queenstown and LIVERPOOL, to Lon- © donderry and GLASGOW, to Plymouth, Cherbourg and’ HAMBURG by the spacious, new, oil-burning ships SCYTHIA, LACONIA SAMARIA, GAMERONIA, TUSCANIAand TYRRHENIA, in cooperationwith the famed and popular CARONIA and hey twin-sister, the CARMANIA. Special Winter Service to the Mediterranean, Apply 25 BROADWAY, NEW YORK “Get a Fresh Grip on LIFE” the doctor said. As our readers get one every week he- tried ife instead of the suggested sani- tarium. LIFE is the apostle of laughter, and laughter is Nature’s cure for exhausted nerves. The subscription cost only.$5. The patient improved right away, and saved lots of time and bother as well, It does pay to read LIFE with its Laugh on Every Page! Try it and see for yourself, and have a good hearty laugh every week, or take our Special Offer Enclosed find One Dollar (Canadian $1.20, Foreign $1.40). Send Lire for the next ten weeks. to Open only to new subscribers; no subscriptions renewed at this rate. LIFE, 598 Madison Avenue, New York One year $5 Canadian $5.80 Foreign $6.60 ) Four Ports to Paradise You can travel in luxury any time you wish to the isles of your dreams: Hawaii. Ample accommodations on splendid liners now make it possible for you to sail direct from any one of the four Pacific Coast seaports named below, to a land where the great out-of-doors is yours 365 days in the year. Hawaii lies 2100 miles south and west from the Pacific Coast of the United States. The voyage, of about six days over calm, sunny seas. js one of unusual enjoyment, Consult your nearest railway, steamship orother travelagency,or HAWAII TOURIST BUREAU 534 Monadnock Bidg., San Francisco or P.O. Box 2120, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. As Pennsylvania TRIO; a time and labor saver for golf courses, polo grounds, parks, large estates, 86 inch swath. Pennsylvania. GOLF; closest cutting for putting greens, tennis courts and fine lawns, May we mail the “Pennsylvania Trio Book?” Five Pennsylvania Quality Mowers driven by tractor will cut 60 to 80 acres per day The worth of a lawn mower is best judged by performance multiplied by years of service. Pennsylvania Quality Mow- ers whether drawn by horse, driven by tractor or pushed by hand have always given the utmost in service and proved to be longest lived. Their economy is marked, hot only in the amount of work accomplished, but in upkeep as well, This is es- pecially important where large areas must be kept in condi- tion. Pennsylvania Lawn Mower Works, Inc. 1625 North 23rd Street, Philadelphia comicbooks.com