Life, 1925-12-03 · page 16 of 84
Life — December 3, 1925 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is an **advertisement**, not editorial satire. The page promotes the Mimeograph machine, manufactured by A.B. Dick Company of Chicago. The ad's argument is straightforward: America's wealth derives from increased productivity—doing more work per hour. The Mimeograph enables this by rapidly duplicating documents (forms, letters, bulletins, diagrams) at low cost and high quality. The image shows the machine itself in profile. The ad emphasizes a new "Mimeotype stencil" requiring no moistening, presented as the latest in the company's "insistent progress." For modern readers: this represents early 20th-century office technology marketing, celebrating industrial efficiency as the driver of national prosperity—a common theme of the era.
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CROWDING TIME America has become the richest nation in history because she has learned how to do more work in an hour than has ever been done before. And in that big job, the Mimeo- graph has been a truly important factor. Busi- ness men and educators everywhere are using the speedy Mimeograph as a means of crowding more into every hour. Of forms, letters, bulletins, dia- grams, etc., its hourly output is counted by the thousands, and its work is as clean-cut as a new coin. Duplication at high speed and low cost! And the new Mimeotype stencil, which is used without moistening, is a development in line of Mimeograph insistent progress. A. B. Dick Company, Chicago, will gladly send you, without obligation, a remark- able booklet which tells of the helpfulness of the MIMEOGRAPH NINESGRAFH comicbooks.com