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This page combines advertisements with humorous satirical content typical of early 20th-century Life magazine. **Main Advertisement**: Pepsodent toothpaste dominates the left side, promoting a "new-day" dentifrice based on removing "dingy film" from teeth. The ad targets consumer anxiety about appearance and dental health. **Satirical Poetry** ("The Shorter, the Dearer"): Mocks women's fashion trends. It laments how shorter hairstyles—the "bob" (fashionable women's haircut of the 1920s)—cost *more* at the salon than longer styles did, despite requiring less hair. The poet ruefully notes that as fashion demands briefer cuts, barber bills keep rising. This satirizes the absurdity of fashion economics and women's supposed slavery to changing trends. **"Revived" Anecdote**: A humorous London cabby story where a "real lady" supposedly gave excessive tips and told the cabby to get drunk rather than return change—inverting genteel behavior expectations for comic effect. The page reflects 1920s consumer culture, beauty standards, and gender dynamics through advertising and light satire.

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