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Life — June 10, 1926 — page 34: Life, 1926-06-10

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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains three major ads: 1. **Johnston's Chocolates** — A luxury gift brand emphasizing social propriety ("always correct"). The ad targets affluent gift-givers concerned with maintaining proper social standing. 2. **Allen's Foot-Ease** — A patent medicine powder for foot comfort, promising relief from corns, bunions, and tired feet. The language emphasizes breaking in new shoes and all-day comfort. 3. **Agrippa-Web Boston Garters** — Men's garters marketed with the tagline "How Did Your Garters Look This Morning?" emphasizing quality construction and comfort. **Context**: These ads reflect early 20th-century consumer culture, targeting middle and upper-class readers worried about etiquette, foot hygiene, and personal grooming. The page also includes "Mrs. Pep's Diary," a society column about genteel domestic concerns. **No political satire is evident** — this is straightforward period advertising.

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CHOCOLATES The Distinction of a Gift of Johnston’s Chocolates BEY THE sophisticated giver : well knows the valucof JohnSon’s for paying social “debts,"—for Johnston's is always correct. The secret of its good-ness is one of a generation's standing. Today ... because of it, Johnston's has won a pinnacle place among the finethings thathavebecome part of our daily lives. ROBERT A JOHNS T NEWYORK. CHICAGO © MILWAUKEE M VIE NOTE ON COMPANY MINNEAPOLIS). OAKLAND | OAL DEALER'S DAUGHTER banks’s picture, “The Black Papa, how many pounds in a ton? rate,” is not based on the life of a Coat. Deatee: It depend who is man porter | delivering it, dear | Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from 8) some other bureau. Then to the journals, scanning the agate adv ter in the b English barristers 1 that a firm of ght be looking for me in order to confer upon the estate of some deceased whom [had never heard, luck soever, Then to marveling how it is cengrocer bly, and, upon never scem to write finishing, to luncheon at an inn with Lisa Mart Il me how her child, walki by her side al . who dic mg the Jdenly vanished and ws Avenue, had » { a square back in a cx which she ad inadverte in front of the h f the town’s riche citize Li did beth atly stepped e of one lawyer, did search the child hopefully for bruises and abrasions, but finding with the scol butler for such carelessness. Home again, where Marge b: was come v all the wearing parel of which hed to dispose, and I did ssemble all of mine, and we did realize from the second-hand w nan who came to ap: praise our stock enough to take us to Atlantic City for a few days of sea air, with asparagus and soft Hl crabs every meal if we che had removed the fitch collar om my old evening cloak, we should not have done so handsomely....This day my servant Virgie did find in one of the crevices of a couch the sable skin which I lost two So bagy, zo Use Shake in Your Shoes the Antiseptic, Healing Powder for the Feet ALLENS FOOTEASE T takes the friction from the shoe, stops the pain of corns and bunions and gives_in- tant relief to tired, aching, swollen, sweating feet, blisters, calluses or sore spots. 7 Shake some Allen’s Foot:Ease into each shoe in the morning,—walk all day in comfort. You will forget about new or tight shoes. Always use it to break in new shoes. In severe cases when your feet are tired and sore, sprinkle two Allen's Foot=Ease powders in the foot-bath, gently rub the sore and inflamed parts,—No more sore feet. This takes the sting out of Corns and Bunions. Trial package and a FootsEnse Walking Dollsent Free. Address, ALLEN’S FOOT=EASE, LeRoy, N. Y. by AU Deng and Department Stores AGRIPPA.- WEB Boston Garter . Bat the wise garter buyer is gui ance, price, quality AGRIPPA WEB stons g garter with the wrinkle word in garter comfort proof pad George Frost Company, Boston How Did Your Garters Look This Morning? comicbooks.com