Life, 1924-10-09 · page 30 of 36
Life — October 9, 1924 — page 30: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, with a small section of humor content. The main satirical pieces are: **"Our Foolish Contemporaries" section:** - A poker story mocking inflated stakes: seven Alaska miners, snowed in, escalate bets to hundreds of thousands of dollars on day nine. When sunlight breaks the storm, one player calls a $100,000 raise with "fifty cents cash"—deflating the entire game's absurd logic. The satire targets get-rich-quick fever and gambling excess during this era. - "Not a Fat Part": A beauty contest winner leaves town for a film role but returns, having been cast only as "the hand that held the bottle marked 'Poison.'" The joke mocks Hollywood's treatment of beauty queens as interchangeable props rather than serious actresses. **The remaining content is straightforward period advertising** for Reedsdale cigarettes, Bell-ans antacid, Horlick's malted milk, menthol shaving products, and other patent medicines—typical of Life's revenue model in this era.
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28 * LIFE Letting Reedsdale Smokers Tell It ROM BALTIMORE, MD.: “Received your sample box of Reedsdale Cigarettes and think they area wonderful smoke. I am writing you to let you know that my future smoke will be ‘ Reeds- dale,’ and will recommend same to all my friends.” (Original letter in our file) Reedadale Cigarettes are 20¢ for twenty! They are put upin a new and lly designed pack- age that keeps them fresh, unbroken and un- crushed to the last one. If not at your dealer's, carton of 5 pack- ages (100 cigarettes) sent for a dollar. Smoke one package. If not Satisfied return remaining ferns ani t your money Bae Reed Tobacco Co., 124 So. 2 1st St., Richmond, Va. Sure Relief 6 BELLANS Hot water Sure Relief SELLANS FOR INDIGESTION 25¢ AND 75¢ PACKAGES EVERYWHERE — ask torHorlick’s The ORIGINAL Malted Milk ; ae For Infants, Children, Invalids, Nursing Mothers Avoid Imitations ow MENTORIVE SonDonGR OH neato Pa rning AFTER SHAVING soothed and cooled by healing, antiseptic “Mentholatum Write for free sample Mentholatum Co., Buffalo, N.Y... Wichita, Kans. CONTEMPORARIES lao Daylight One of the pet stories of “Tex” Rick- ard, fight promoter, is about a poker game that took place in a mining camp in Alaska. Seven miners got together oné night for a game and were snowed in by a that lasted for the ninth day. Although they probably had not $5,000 in real money among them, by the time the ninth day came they were making wagers of hundreds of thousands of dollars. On the ninth day the cards were dealt and one man announced that he would open the pot for $100,000, Just then a ray of sun penetrated the cabin, indicating that the storm was over. “I'll sce your hundred thousand,” said one of the other men, “and raise you fifty cents cash.” And that broke up the game. —Corey, in Louisville Courier-Journal, =m‘ storm Cellarette, sideboard or ocean steamer kit is Incom- Sample lete without Abbott's Bitters. Akis digestion, by mall, 25 ets. C. W. Abbott & Co, Baltimore, Md. Not a Fat Part A girl, winner of a local beauty con- test, in which the first prize was a part in a big film play, left her native town the envy and admiration of all. Weeks passed without news, Then one day she returned and resumed her former oO pation. ut what about acting for the pic- tures?” she was asked. “Didn't they give you a part?” “Yes, they gave me a part,” she an- swered, bitterly. “They told me I could be the hand that held the bottle marked ‘Poison’ in the villain's nightmare!" —Tit-Bits (London). Stet! Our London correspondent clips from an English newspaper a paragraph of information on the condition of the roads, to which an inspired compositor has added the finishing touch : “Bristol to Weston-super-Mare : tar-spraying at_ intervals. “Bristol to Cleveden: at Twickenham. ristol to Portishead : ristol to Bath: God!" —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Fair; Fair; roller at Poor to bad. The Little Red Album A stamp collector declares that in pur- suing this pastime “one learns art, geog- raphy, history and becomes studious, alert, steadfast in purpose, and patient, and is trained to be methodical.” It might be a good way to educate the boy, after he gets through school. —E. C. A., in Detroit News. E:cuty-one policemen were bitten by dogs last ye The ideal constable would be one without fear or flavor. —Punch. It can't get lost This is the new Hinge-Cap on Williams Shaving Cream FARO OIG LO eet tNOR= N00 He-SHO “WitaT MAKE OF WHAT DOES THE LADY REPRESENT?” “SUE TO BE UNUArFILY MARRIED.” —Lustige Blatter (Berlin). bo you THs SEEMS. % A Sure Way to End Dandruff There is one sure way that never fails to remove dandruff completely, and that is to dissolve it. Then you destroy it entirely. To do this, just apply a little Liquid Arvon at night befo: use enough to moisten the se: it in gently with tho finger tips. By morning, most if not all, of your dandruff will be gone, and two or thrse more applications will completely solve and entirely destroy every ingle sign and trace of it, no matter how much dandruff you may have. You will find, too, that all itching of the ecalp will stop instantly, and your hair will be lustrous, glossy, ‘silky ‘and soft, and look and feel a hundred times better. ‘You can get Liquid Arvon at any drug store and a four ounce bottle is all you willnced. This simple remedy bas never been Keown to fail, LIQUID ARVON , It can't get lost on comicbooks.com