Life, 1926-03-04 · page 36 of 40
Life — March 4, 1926 — page 36: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **commercial advertisements** with minimal satirical content. The main items are: **Klenzo Toothbrush ad** (left): Standard product advertisement emphasizing gentle-yet-effective cleaning, sold at Rexall Drug Stores. **"Lines Upon Proceeding to Wreck a Radio Set"** (center top): A humorous poem by Arthur L. Lippmann satirizing early radio broadcasts. The speaker celebrates destroying their homemade radio set to escape repetitive, sentimental popular songs of the era—specifically mentioning overplayed pieces like "Macushla," "The Road to Mandalay," and "Aida's Grand March." The satire mocks both the limited song rotation and listeners' forced tolerance of it. **"The City Editor's Nightmare"** (center): A brief satirical piece imagining impossible scenarios (bootleggers going bankrupt, Congress suspending publication for lack of material, Mussolini granting breathing rights)—mock absurdities reflecting 1920s cynicism about government and business. The remaining content comprises product advertisements (Mothersill's Seasickness Remedy, Glover's Dandruff Treatment, Kemp's Balsam, Resinol, and Little Blue Books catalog).
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
KLENZO BRUSHES Clean All Your Teeth All Over NLY genuine bristles are used in Klenzo Brushes. They are just stiff enough to cleaneverysurfaceof your teeth thoroughly. Just soft enough not to hurt your gums. A Klenzo really cleans all your teeth all over. Not a bit of film or particle of matter is left to cause decay. Klenzo Tooth Brushes are made in eighteen styles— twelve for adults and six for children, including the exact shape for your teeth. Be sure to look for the name on each brush. Sold only at Rexall Drug Stores. SAVE with SAFETY at your Drug Store You will recognize it by this sign Liggetts are also Joxall stores LIFE | Lines Upon Proceeding to Wreck a Radio Set O' tiny home-made set grotesque, I fear you've had your d. No more the hackneyed “Hum “The Road to Mandalay,” “The Meditation f Or “Madame But Will strain. your tubes; you've won surcease— And so, at last, have I! ve My o Ten times a night the selfsame 3y Amy Woodforde-Finden, much and overlong raged © ave ned in sony No more the price of Will haunt my dreams ; Life oftsilence sans d grains Till lead a strains Of “Grand March from ‘Aida. ” and “Machree,” be missed, ewell “Macushla” u never will t The Rhapsody” Hungarian by Liszt The tearful t 7 My ears will be bey As well as little Lieder by One Carrie Jacot Y Together with * »s Bond. h leagueless space, from cor at- The same old songs will blare Let others catch their r Tl give ‘em all the ai And pray I may in time forget “At Dawnin song accursed— Come home-made set. Ull hack your headphones first! tly notes Arthur 1, Lippmann The City Editor's Nightmare HE M. E. Board of Prohibition and Pul Temperance, ic Morals issues statement praising a public official Charles M. Schw pessimism ¢ » Voices extreme ok ankruptcy ‘er the business Two bootleggers go int Ine proves not to be a prominent ¢ ted reveler nabbed in raid bman., Telephone company does not demand further increase in rates Conaress. nal Record suspends on ac- count of lack of material Farmers deny that they are dissatis- fied. Mussolini grants his subjects the right to breathe. “Abie’s Irish Rose” companies. “OF released to stock f White He treats the newspapermen to cigars. Mackay his favorite song is ial Spokesms that Clarence announces, “Remember.” Robert Hage. nice thing about a radio when the peop! is that e who insist on tak- O ing you riding on Sunday afternoons come to see you, you can get even Stops ¢ and prevents the nausea of Sea, Train and Car Sickness. You can travel anywhere in any con- veyance through its use. 730. 8 $1.39 ‘or direct on vec ‘The Mothersill Remedy Co, N.Y. Drug Stores FOR DANDRUFF GLOVER’S exercises an antiseptic effect onthescalp. Cleanse: ulates. Send for GLOVER NDBOOK on the Scalp Hair; /ree on request. It will teil, you mai things you should know. Write Dept. Another Bedtime Story ° THRIFTY iti at a thought thoughtful The | think rant tinker thrilled while tinkering a thin tin tank ht that while tinkers unthankfully of tender inerant tinker thankful the 3, thick or nerant thinker ight th tinker ten th thin, of tinkering notin’ tanks, also thought that ten nk ten thousand vusand tin tanks, thi the thankful tinkers and and not. thir this tin ght while ten- tin tank, Fes: cr th derly tinkering a ROPPING can't be considered a wise crack. a pint on the sidewalk CATALOGUE FREE! Send name [4 and address for catalogue of 1000 classics PES in pocket size—fction, drama, history, {4g tckue, bsisy, poster, phisephy sod othe! subjects, All at pet book. Fy) "HALDEMAN. JULIUS CO, i) tnsisr_uron I KEMP'S BALSAM| | FOR THAT COUGH! iid (LEAR YOUR SKIN of disfiguring blotches and imtations. Use Resinol comicbooks,com