Life, 1923-09-13 · page 4 of 36
Life — September 13, 1923 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **Mimeograph machine advertisement** from the A.B. Dick Company of Chicago, not a political cartoon. The elliptical image at top depicts **Pegasus (winged horse) with a figure**, symbolizing speed—the ad's central metaphor. The headline claims the Mimeograph has "clipped the wings of speeding time" by enabling rapid document duplication. The advertisement targets business and educational markets, emphasizing how the machine increases efficiency by quickly copying "letters, bulletins, forms, diagrams, drawings, etc." The copy stresses cost savings and that the device "has few equals in all the world." A tear-away coupon invites readers to request a product demonstration booklet. This represents early 20th-century mechanical office technology marketed through aspirational imagery connecting speed and progress to business success.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
We have clipped the wings of speeding time forthousands ofthe world’smost successful industries And we can do just that for you and yours. In business and education every- where the Mimeograph is helping to crowd more into every work- ing hour. Its speedy and accurate duplica- tion of all kinds of letters, bulle- tins, forms, diagrams, drawings, etc., makeit an outstanding factor in modern efficiency, and one of the most remarkable economies of these achieving days. Five thou- sand well printed—privately printed—sheets is its hourly grist! Its cost is small—its saving great. It many places it has conserved more than its purchase price in a single week. Be your business little or big you do not know what the Mimeo- graph can do for you until you have seen the new process in actual operation. - As a money saver it has few equals in all the world. Why not let us show you how this simple and speedy device will clip the wings of speeding time for you? We want to save time. We want to save money. Therefore we ask the A. B. Dick Company, Chicago, to send us Mimeograph booklet “W-9" | ' Name. comicbooks.com