Life, 1925-10-15 · page 32 of 36
Life — October 15, 1925 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising-heavy**, typical of 1920s American magazines. The dominant content includes: **Major Advertisements:** - **Bayer Aspirin** (top): Emphasizes the branded product's safety and physician endorsement for common ailments—reflecting post-WWI marketing of this newly accessible painkiller - **Hostetter's Stomach Bitters**: Patent medicine advertising typical of the era - Smaller ads for Glover's Mange Medicine, Masonic supplies, Majors Cement, and Cortez Cigars **Editorial Content:** The "Life and Letters" section reviews recent books, including Helen Simpson's *Acquittal* (about a woman acquitted of murdering her husband) and references to works by Jacques Forestier and Louis Bromfield. **Poetry:** "From a Train Window" satirizes American roadside billboard advertising—a contemporary complaint about commercialization despoiling the landscape. **Humor Section:** Brief satirical pieces mocking theatrical conventions and melodrama. The page reflects 1920s concerns: commercialism's visual pollution, accessible pharmaceuticals, and literary modernism.
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rw PAE Aspirin SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSIST! Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for Headache Neuralgia Pain Toothache Safe Colds Neuritis Co Fatanhipeetoe which contains proven directions. Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists. Lumbago Rheumatism Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid Life and Letters (Continued of the most daring and versatile of the young Parisians, ranged from playit bands to the hood of Dadaism, so what he r Is of the mental, spiritual and amorous adventures of the youthful Jacques For estier in Paris may be taken as inside information. Oi course Jacques’ adventures are entirely his activities having in his own jazz Promote good Health Take care of your stomach. It is the best friend you have. HOSTETTER’S Celebrated Stomach Bitters taken before meals—improves the appetite, aids digestion and imparts a feeling of robust health. At All Druggist; THE HOSTETTER CO., Pittsburgh, Pa. Sales Agents HAROLD F. RITCHIE HOSTETTER’S CELEBRATED STOMACH BITTERS from page 20) with young women whose business is on a scale requiring branch establish- ments, a which in itself how much better those things are or- dered in France. There is some sharp characterization in “The Grand Ecart,” and a good deal of sardonic humor. fact proves “AcguittaL,” by Helen Simpson (Knopf), is an interesting and well- written book, and it is probably entirely my fault that I closed it without being certain whether Beatrice Laurier did or didn’t murder her husband. The au- thor handled this delicate point so subtly that perhaps this uncertainty of mind was exactly the state in which she wished to leave her readers, “Acquittal” tells what happened to a brilliant and beauti- ful won after the jury let her off, and the fact that what happened wasn't so terrible should not be taken as an encouragement to homicide. It is not a sordid story—the heroine has an at- tractive apartment, wears beautiful mourning and has a cousin who is a lord. All of which should be accept- able to those whom Mr. Arlen has ac- customed to Mayfair. I cannot get to Louis Bromfield’s “Possession” (Stokes) this week, but it opens thus: “In the fading Octo- ber twilight Grandpa Tolliver sat eat- ing an apple and reading ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” That should be sufficient for those of you who read “The Green Bay Tree.” Baird Leonard. REDDING & CO. From a Train Window How beautiful, my country, Your hills and dales would be But for the hideous hoardings My eyes are doomed to see— Of tires and tea and codfish, Of chewing-gum and milk, Knit underwear and corsets, And hose of hole-proof silk, Of cigarettes and garters, Cigars and smart men's styles, And soap and soup and watches— For endless miles on miles. Oh, that some god of vision Would make the ad men see How beautiful my country Without their signs would be! X. Wye. Tabloid Drama He looked at her. She was his ideal is dream woman. He couldn't live without her. She looked at him. He was that which she had always de sired. She couldn't live without him. The local left before the express. They never saw each other again Tuesris: What was the matter with the new play? Foyer: The villain had a cough and the audience thought he was mimicking MEN-Stop Falling F Hair! MASONIC Books, Monitors, Bibl Aprons, Jewelry and L Supplies. Send for catalogue 5 of books and jewelry; catalogue 6 of Lodge Supplies. No obligations. (Estab! 9 West 23d Street, New York 1s GOOD For repairing ch!- na, glassware, brie + a = bree, meerschaum; t ping billiard cu 5c per bot Rudver and Leath- er Cements, 20¢ per bottle at dealers. Cortez (Gars -MADE AT KEY WEST— comicbooks.com