Life, 1925-10-22 · page 32 of 74
Life — October 22, 1925 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This Life magazine page (appears to be from early 1900s) mixes humor pieces with advertising: **"A Greeley Story"** satirizes Horace Greeley (19th-century newspaper editor and politician) for his notoriously illegible handwriting. The joke shows an exchange where Greeley declines a lecture invitation in scrawl so bad that the recipient's reply quips they couldn't read it—a running joke about Greeley's penmanship becoming legendary. **Other brief humor pieces** include jokes about burglars, husbands, and theatrical performers—light social comedy typical of the era, poking fun at working-class life and marital mishaps. **The advertisements** for the California Limited train and Davey Tree Surgeons dominate the right side, promoting exclusive travel and professional tree care services to affluent readers. The page reflects early 20th-century American magazine culture: celebrity gossip, genteel humor, and advertising targeting the middle-to-upper class.
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exclusively first-class Santa Fe “all the way”—the shortest route between Chicago and California— through a sunny scenic wonderland. Fred Harvey through dining car —another exclusive feature. Through Pullman via Grand Canyon National Park. 5 daily trains to California on The Santa Fe. After California —Havweii Gand me Sante Fe picture folders of winter trip to! A Greeley Story Horace Greeley’s illegible handwriting has become a tradition of the country. It is amusingly demonstrated in the fol- lowing letters : “Tribune Office, New York City. “May 2.1 “Mr, M, B. Castle, “Sandwich, Ii. “De ge ma overworked and growing old. I shall te 60 next Eeb. 3. Op the whole, it seems I must decline to lecture henceforth except, in this immediate vicinity, if I do at all, I cannot promise to visit’ Illinois on that errand, certainly not now “Yours. truly, "Horace Greetey The reply to this letter was wich, IIL ‘Hon. Horace Greeley. cw York Tribune acceptance to lecture before our n next winter came to hand this Your penmansh:p not being the it took some time t be ucceeded and would ul the terms, $60, are entir you suggest, we may be a Other engagements. plain Y satisfactory je to get you “Resp fully, B. Caste —McClure’s Magazin Ina Pinch, use ALLEN'’S FOOTsEASE Degradation “Steve, dear,” whispered the burglar's bride as he started on his evening's work, “try to be a little more quiet when ma ." replied the fond hus- Did I wake youse up las’ night?” , but you ‘awakened Mother. And I don't want her running up to the peni- tentiary and complaining to Father that 1 married an amateur.” —American Legion Weekly. Teaspoootul of Abbott's Bitters on bait Grape Fruit; a delightful breakfast tonic. Sample bitters by mail, 25 Gut‘in stampa. "C- W. Abbott & Co, Daltimore, Aid. The Perfect Husband A man whose daughter had married away from home wrote to inquire what kind of man her husband was, and re- ceived for reply: “L tell you, Father, he’s a prime good whistler, and you never saw such a hand for flapjacks in all your life. He's got blue eyes and his father belongs to the chureh."—Floride Times-Union. Athirst Tue Swasusucxter (in melodrama): Another stoup of wine, varlet, dost hear? Frusteren Surer (promoted to small part): Dust where? Tue Swasusuckter (rising to occa- sion and clutching throat): Dust here! —Humorist (London). Henry Forp says he believes in mod- eration in all things. With one excep- tion. —Collier’s. Reg. U.S. Pat. Of. JOHN DAVEY Father of Tree Surgery “Do it right or not at all” Forbidden Trees! When you cannot employ Davey Tree Surgeons More business is declined every year by Davey Tree Surgeons than they accept. Why? Be- cause it is a fixed policy never to waste the client’s money. You cannot employ Davey Tree Surgeons— if your trees are too far gone to save, even though they are still living; or if you are unwilling to have the work done thor- oughly according to Da- vey standards. Davey Tree Surgeons have a list of forbidden trees on which only first-aid work is permitted. These are the trees that a quar- ter of a century of experience has shown will not respond to full treatment or warrant it. If your trees can be saved and are worth it, Davey Tree Surgeons will save them. Davey Tree Surgeons are local to you —live and operate in your vi- cinity—ali thoroughly trained and always under organization discipline. THE DAVEY TREE EXPERT Co., INC. 275 City Bank Building, Kent, Ohio Attach this coupon to your letterhead and mail today THE DAVEY TREE EXPERT CO., Inc. 275 City Bank Bldg., Kent Ohio, Gentlemen: Without cost or obliga- tion on my part, please have your local representative examine my trees and advise me as to their condition and needs, comicbooks.com