Life, 1925-01-29 · page 4 of 37
Life — January 29, 1925 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising, not satire or editorial content**. It's a full-page advertisement for the Mimeograph machine, manufactured by A.B. Dick Company of Chicago. The ad promotes the mimeograph as a practical office technology for "offices and factories and schools," emphasizing its ability to produce "splendidly printed copies" of documents "at a low cost." It highlights a new innovation: the "Mimeotype stencil sheet, used without moistening." The circular photograph at top shows the mimeograph machine itself—a mechanical device typical of early 20th-century office equipment. There is no political cartoon or satire here; this is straightforward product marketing aimed at institutional buyers seeking cost-effective document reproduction technology.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
THE MIMEOGRAPH provides a better way of doing important jobs in offices and factories and schools. As a compact, private printing plant it is geared to the strenuous day’s requirements, and in a simple way it rapidly reproduces by the thousands splendidly printed copies of originals, which may be typewritten or drawn with a stylus, such as Form Letters, Bulletins, Diagrams or kindred matter—and at a low cost. Sizes of Mimeographs to suit requirements, and at proportionate prices. Interesting illustrated booklet will be sent on request. And now the new Mimeotype stencil sheet, used without moistening, places the Mimeo- graph process another long step in advance. DICK COMPANY, CHICAGO comicbooks.com