Life, 1925-11-26 · page 39 of 44
Life — November 26, 1925 — page 39: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **real estate and travel advertising** rather than political satire. The dominant content promotes San Jose Estates, a Florida development near Jacksonville, featuring a new hotel, country club, and golf course designed by Donald Ross. The only comic/satirical element is "**Predestination**," a brief joke about a deceased joke-column editor condemned to write humorous content in Hell for eternity. The joke's premise: even in damnation, he receives the same stale, recycled joke submissions (Irish characters named Pat and Mike, traveling salesmen, etc.). The satire targets the exhaustion of comedy tropes and the thankless work of editors processing endless derivative material. The remaining content comprises **classified advertising**: writing workshops, cruise lines to Puerto Rico, and patent medicine ads—typical magazine filler of the era. The page captures 1920s consumer culture: Florida's real estate boom, leisure travel expansion, and professional writing opportunities.
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SAN JOSE San Jose — Florida's Super-Development — located along the St. John River, fifteen minutes by motor from Jacksonville over the famous Dixie Highway, has passed the state of immaturity and early development. On a thousand acre tract of beautiful wooded land, naturally endowed with beauty and glorious trees and foliage, homes of infinite charm are appearing. A magnificent new hotel —the San Jose Hotel—is nearing completion and will open January first. A Country Club, most unique in architectural style and embody- ing every convenience for the golfer, will open at the same time. An eighteen hole ey course adjoins this San Jose try Club; a course that has been designed and laid out by Donald Ross and which will appeal to every follower of the an cient game. It will be ready for play in Decem- ber. Its natural and artificial harards make it cone of the finest courses in the South. Here, in an ideal climate, golf can be played every day in the year. Apart from the much talked of record of accomplishment made by the developers of this Florida Community Masterpiece, construction work on the San Jose-Vanderbilt Hotel will begin shortly after the first of the year. This superb structure, costing over two million dollars, will be an additional link in the Vanderbilt chain of hotels, Bie Hotel of New York, the Bon Air-Vanderbilt of Augusta, Georgia, and the Condado-Vanderbilt of San Juan, Porto Rico. The recreational facilities offered by San Jose, its perfect climate, its accessibility to Jacksonville, its nearness to the world-famed Atlantic Beach, plus the charm of its wonderful homes and hotels, offer you an opportunity to enjoy the prestige of environment. Vander! Booklet “131 Facts” sent on request addressed to SAN JOSE ESTATES, 220-222 W. Forsytu Sr., Jacksonviite, Fra. ARCHITECTS’ FIRST CONCEPTION DRAWING San Jose Estates Jacksonville Florida . which includes the For Rates and Reservations Address SAN JOSE HOTEL Jacrsonvaie, Fra. THE WRITER Harvard Square ° in the workshops ofauthors . «2 6 + se wee AN AUTHORS’ MONTHLY FORUM Short-stories analyzed in deal : poblication in various fox magazine editors manuscript needs and other s to literary workers. Send 25 for latest tae Cireulation Department, THE WRITER : Cambridge, Mass. To the Island of Enchantment Be: comfortable steamers your hotel for this wonderful vice, Tenvary, 1926. ore of sta: ot beautiful hoe otal while in San Juan. Wide range of ac- commodations. | Picturesque motor sight- seeing trips included in rate. Sailings every Thursday. Cruise Department PORTO RICO LINE 25 Broadway, New York City Predestination Havinc passed away, the editor of the Joke Column headed cheerfully for Hades. He was welcomed, conducted to a beautiful office containing a big desk, a comfortable chair and a tre- mendous wastebasket, and told that his sentence was to get out a humorous weekly during all eternity. “It could be worse,” he commented. “Now bring me the contributions.” They were brought. He found that each envelope held the following : —so it must have been two other men. —That wasn't no lady, That was my wife. Second Golfer: your score first. A traveling salesman got into a small town and— It seems there were two Irishmen, Pat and Mike— An optimist, my son, is a man who— “Can't I have just one new story?” the editor groaned. “That's the hell of it,” his Satanic office boy told him. “There aren't any new ones here. Not even this.” Good Night, All Lives of broadcasters remind us We can say good night and quit, And departing leave behind us Listeners quite glad of it! It's your turn to tell over the mountaintor into the valley below a myriad of fascinating scenes unfold to your view—if you are able to enjoy them. The.sway of the train means trainsickness—(nausea) to many. Mothersill's stops Train, Car and Sea Sickness at once, giving perfect comfort on your trip, 73, & $1.30. at Drug Stores 6 or direct on receipt of Price ‘The Mothersill Remedy Co., New York 5: Have a Satin-Smooth Hair- Free Skin ‘Science has solved the problem of removing unwanted hair pleasant, ly, without discomfort to the skin or complexion. This with NEET, » mild, dainty cream, You Toerelyepread {ton and then rinse off with clear water. That's comicbooks.com