Life — July 31, 1924 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE: The Compleat Angler Necessary Items for Every Successful Fisherman COMBINATION LURE. Throw away all your lures, boys, and tie your leader onto the “Just Dandy.” It’s sure killer, and includes the best features of every known lure on the market. Positively weedless, dustless and noise- less. Equally good for bass, perch, pickerel, pike, tarpon, barracuda, trout, finnan haddie, roach, bream, porgies, culpins, bullheads, herring, alligator gars or tripe. 2. The “Foxo” extra tip. A long-felt want. Breaks in two instantly at the first cast, thereby assuring the safety of the rest of your outfit. If you must lend your best fly. rod to your week-end guest, sce that the tip is a “Foxo.” 3. Light-weight diver’s suit. Absolutely indispensable when out fishing with the w or “littke woman.” “Hook learic? One moment until I get into my ‘Jules No less practical if the boat upsets or a domestic argument arises. State chest measurement. 4. A spoonful of “Grobig” down your catch’s maw, and you'll have something to brag about. Adds six to cight inches, or your bait back and no questi asked. 5. The “Bango” casting pistol embodies the salient fea- tures of a life-saving gun and an automatic tape-measure. Pull the trigger and out goes your line as far as three hun- dred feet. Slip on the reverse catch and every inch is reeled in again—-sometimes with a fish at the end. 6. “High-grade” hand-hammered gadgets and widgets. No- body knows what these are for, but no tackle box is complete without them. Our gadgets and widgets are extremely pop- PARADISE ENOW “CATCH ANY FISH ON YOUR LAST TRIP?” “NO; BUT ONE BIG FELLOW ROSE UP AND GAVE ME AN AWFUL DIRTY LOOK.” ular because of their total incomprehensibility. Some have a swivel at each end, but what of that? 7. The “St. Lawrence” pointing otter. These animals are all trained under personal supervision. Ease the otter gently into the stream and he will swim about until he sights a trout. He then freezes with his right hind foot high in the air. You cast...and the trout is yours. Member the great strings you useter catch when you were a kiddie? "Member the crooked pole you cut, and the cotton string, the rusty nail and the bent pin? The imita- tion small boy's outfit carefully reproduces all these de- tails in the finest materials. You can’t possibly fail to catch the limit. Fish have a great respect for tradition, 9. The “Shalimar” cel charmer. Modeled exactly after the Indian snake charmer's clarinet, the “Shalimar” has a more liquid note, such as would charm a more discriminat- ing ecl. Even the big ones will leave the mud when the “Shalimar” hits the top notes. Easy to play. Easy to pay 10. If you are going to be around the coast, don't be without the junior pneumatic drill. Opens oysters, clams, lobsters, etc., with the minimum effort. Will drill a hole in your boat, letting out the water and eliminating bailing. May be used in the winter on safes and gin bottles. Henry William Hanemann, He Started HE: How did your father get his start? rs Sue: I'm not sure, but I think Mother found him in IF EVERYTHING HAD THAT BALLOON-TIRE LOOK neutral and cranked him up. comicbooks.com