Life, 1926-04-15 · page 33 of 44
Life — April 15, 1926 — page 33: what you’re looking at
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This is a **product advertisement**, not a cartoon or satirical content. It promotes Weyerhaeuser's "Cut to Size" pre-cut lumber for industrial crating. The page addresses manufacturers and shippers, emphasizing cost savings through standardized, pre-cut lumber supplied in ready-to-assemble bundles. The "Eight Specific Savings" listed argue that buying pre-cut lumber reduces waste, labor costs, and shipping weight compared to bulk purchases requiring in-house cutting. The small illustration shows a railroad car, emphasizing that the product ships in full carloads—a practical detail for industrial buyers. This represents early **20th-century industrial marketing**: appealing to efficiency, standardization, and cost reduction—values central to American manufacturing at that era. There is no satire or political commentary; it's straightforward business promotion aimed at industrial decision-makers.
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— | To Crate Users Weyerhaeuser d now introduces ‘Cut to Size” Crating Lumber O op of the savings they have already effected for | the industrial men of America, Weyerhaeuser . now comes forward with a still further contribution toward economies in crating and transportation costs. Briefly, it is thi To the manufacturer who has standardized, or who can standardize, his crates, Weyerhaeuser is prepared to furnish Crating Lumber Cut to Size. i This Weyerhaeuser Cut to Size Crating Lumber is of standard kind and grade as specified for the individual crates. It is cut to the required length, width and thick- ness for each individual crate and is shipped in bun- dles ready to assemble. Savings Saving No. 1 . h d of at the source. Saving No. 2 Lower lumber costs per crate. Weyer- Saving No. 3 Lower Labor ¢ customers. In most cases, th they can do it better and than the individual customer can do self. Weyerhaeuser Cut to Size Crating Lumber is prepared only at the Wey- erhaeuser Mills. It can be supplied only in carload lots. And each car contains all the pieces needed to A Carload of Lumber is about 25,000 Ps Board Feet. Buy your Crating Lum- make a specified number of stand- ber than man: used. And tha ping weight. ber from Weyerhaeuser Cut to Size. All good crating pieces. ard crates. No waste, There will always be some manu- _. . tier neat toccing wola facturers and shippers who will find Saving No.7 shipping room. it necessary to buy their crating lum- Fewer ad ber in bulk and do the cutting up in their own establishments, and to these Weyerhaeuser offers a dependable supply of ideal, light weight woods in grades best suited to their purpose. But the man who can and will follow the Weyer- ee eficcent, haeuser Crating Service every step of the way, including this new Cut to Size offering — may expect Eight Spe- cific Savings (and maybe Nine) as enumerated in the right hand column. It is worth thinking about. We invite your corre- spondence. WEYERHAEUSER FOREST PRODUCTS SAINT PAUL MINNESOTA Producers for industry of pattern and flask lumber, factory grades for remanufacturing, lamber for boxing and crating, structural timbers for industrial building. And each of these items in the species and type of wood best suited for the purpose. Also producers of Idaho Red Cedar poles for telephone and electric transmission lines. Weyerhaeuser Forest Products are di Is by the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, Spokane, Washiogt with branch offices at 208 $ ‘tad 805 Plymouth Bidg., Mino comicbooks.com