Life, 1925-11-26 · page 41 of 44
Life — November 26, 1925 — page 41: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains primarily **advertisements and filler content** rather than political cartoons. The main visual content includes: 1. **Twinplex Stropper ad** (left): A dialogue between two men debating razor blade quality. The joke assumes readers understand that straight razors required stropping (realigning blade edges) before use—a common grooming practice of the era. The ad promotes their stropping device as essential for maintaining blade sharpness. 2. **Johnston's Chocolates ad** (center): Features an elaborate display of chocolate boxes, marketing the product as a gift reflecting the giver's refined social taste and "correctness." 3. **"The News in Pictures"** (right): A lengthy list of historical and contemporary figures, apparently illustrating a photo essay continued from an earlier page. 4. **Cortez Cigars ad** (bottom right): Simple product advertisement. The page is essentially a **commercial publication** with minimal satirical content—typical of Life's mixed advertising and editorial model during this period.
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man,” said Porter. “Razor blades are as good as they ever were. “nh “tI get a decent shave?” asked Stewart. my dear fellow. If you would strop Jes on 2 Twinplex they would shave like a vouldn’t @rop a new blade, would you?™ where you fellows slip up. You ew blade is ready to shave with. Asa matter of the Gnishing touch of a good strop imme hav ng Jon’t they @rop them at the factory?” Jo, but the edges of a good blade are as sensitive nerature changes as is the mercury in a thermom- mid Stewart. “The stropping must be done xe shaving.” 2-0. That's the only way you can get a keen edge enfortable shave.” & Vil try it,” said Stewart, “Where can I get a what's more—Twinpler will make a blide le so 11! soon save enough to pay for it Send for this unique Home for Old Blades 2 nd 1 aeJ we will send you a Dull House and a sharp new blade, mate keen by @ropping on Twinplex. We would just hke to show you what Twinplex will do to a new blade. en years Twinple: leading @ores all over the world. Ask your TWINPLEX SALES CO. 1722 Locust St., St. Louis New York Montreal London Chicago tropper FOR SMOOTHER SHAVES Te 1 ie Se tak eee Fa Johnston's Chdcolates appreciates ‘the gift for double reasons—for the exquisite ~ goodness that has won Johnston’s fame. And for your discrimination in selecting a candy recognized for its social correctness, ‘You will find a special agency for John- ston’s Chocolates in one of the betrer lass stores io your neighbourhood. ROBERT A." JOHNSTON COMPANY MILWAUKEE der his régime they improved until the local Chamber of Commerce's slogan of “Go to Flatville to Cross a Street” bade fair to become the great American catch-phrase. Curbstones, too, were vastly bettered in appearance, and the deterioration of one, that at Elm and Cedar Streets, was due solely to the intrigues of grafting subordinates. Although the Trumpet-Clarion has occasionally been at odds with Mr Sguipss, it points with pride to the record of never a harsh word and the fact that it was preparing to support him enthusiastically in the im- pending election. As matters stand, Flatville has no choice but to elect HRAIM PLUNKETT, undoubtedly a worthy man, albeit an untried one. Whether Mr. Prunxett can make the street crossings and curbstones of Flat- ville the objects of envy they were to the people of Hilldale, Valleyburg and Summit during the beneficent rule of Mr. Sguisss remains to be seen. Bartuotomew Sguisss, the Trum- pet-Clarion mourns you! TBs Son: To-morrow is dad’s birthday— what shall we do for him? DaucuTer: We might let him have his car for a change, The News in Pictures (Continued from poge 15) William Shakespeare, Ludwig van Beethoven, Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Abraham Lin- coln, Julius Caesar,’ Honoré de Balzac, the Marquis de Lafayette, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Plato, Joan of Arc, Aristo- phane: her Wren, William EB. Glad- stone, Charlie Chaplin, Daniel We Dr, Johnson, Robert Burns, Virgil, Cleopatra, Cicero, J. P. pier Colambus, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Boone, taphael, Demosthenes, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Cromwell, Benjamin Disraeli, Alexandre Du- mas, Queen Elizabeth, Euripides, Charles Dickens, Leonardo da Vinci, Voltaire, Thomas jefferson, Johann Sebastian Bach, Francis I., johann folfgang von Goethe, Commodore fanderbilt, U. S. Grant, Socrates, Lord Byron, Arthur Schopenhauer, Frederick the Great, Peter Paul Rubens, Horace, Walt Whitman, Cardinal Richelieu, Robert E. Lee, Louis XIV, J.B. Poquelin Molitre, the Duke of Wellingt Qaeen Victoria, Warren ing, ai Jesus Christ. Habit Mrs. Davis: Why did your husband make that dreadful face when he was giving his after-dinner speech? Mrs. Howarp: He always rehearsed it while he dressed. The part where he made the face came when he was put- ting his collar on. Stocan for Real Estate Ad. Writers —“Keep florid with Florida.” OF BRAINS Gortez AGARS -MADE AT KEY WEST— comicbooks.com