Life, 1926-11-04 · page 16 of 40
Life — November 4, 1926 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three humorous pieces. "A Tactless Acquaintance Meets Mr. Browning" is a dialogue where someone pesters "Ed" with gossip and small talk about peaches and real estate—poking fun at intrusive, boundary-crossing social behavior. "To a Snail" is a poem by George Mitchell about snails' leisurely pace. The main cartoon, "The Most Uneven Contest of the Season," depicts a person being attacked by a shark labeled "LOAN SHARK" while shouting "OUCH!" The joke satirizes predatory lending practices—the wordplay between actual sharks and financial "sharks" who aggressively pursue debtors. This reflects early 20th-century concerns about exploitative lending and debt collection.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Life A Tactless Acquaintance Meets Mr. Browning ELLO, Ed...peach of a Compliments day, isn’t it?... Everything peaches with you? That's of a good....W! are you up to now, Friend you old rascal? Come on, spill it— I won't peach on you....How about a little trip to Long Peach, as my barber calls it?...Great card, my ber, you should know him. If We Made as Much of roe night, he s ‘de wile an’ Other Data as We Do we go to da movin’-a peach, danna ne we come back, we peach in anna wash of Auto Statistics halla da dish.’...He makes elegant ALTIMORE, MD.—The 5,000,- peach brandy, Ed....Did I get a 000th oyster was taken from the bun on it, the other night? Oh, boy, local beds to-day amid the plaudits \ a peacherino!...Too bad about that of a vast multitude. Business was Ali Baba: anv wuen 1 sain, “open Teal-estate deal, Ed. The other suspended. The oyster will be taken sesame!” THE Rock spLit wine fellow peach you on tour through- OPEN. to it, didn’t he? = out the United Hajji Baba: Tuat was certainty ---Say, what do yr oN States under SOME WISE CRACK. you know about = guard of a spe- Alexander? He's a cial platoon of To a Snail t peacher, isn’t Zz ~ = Baltimore pep . Say, have ly policemen. ITTLE Snail, I often wonder I the one | LY co 8 Wh you wander, do you About Pat and Coney Istanp _, blunde . Mike?...Pat | 1 —At a special Shut in, are you ever knowing meets Mike, see? "\ “SE:| session of the Where in thunder you are going? and he says, ‘Well, —_— ees Business Men's and peachabers...’” The Surly Adventures of Association to- worry— (At this point Mr. and Mrs. Frosting day the presi- At the ‘pace with which you hurry, Mr. Browning en- G. THREE DAYS LATER THERE dent of the: or- Do you, when you hit the trail, ters his palatial WAS LITTLE TO CHOOSE BE- ganization Ever ge€ there, little Snail? motor car and is TWEEN LONG BEACIL AND SAMA- announced that George Mitchell. whirled mercifully GANSETT HARBOR T THE Coney Island away.) FLIES, AND THEY CHOSE FoR hot - dog stands N Odd Number: the Harvard Henry William THEMSELVES, show Eleven. Hanemann. (Continued on page 32) of Or—and this should cause you this city the hot-dog s ship of the world and providing 1.6 hot-dog stands for cach permanent resident. Business was suspended in celebration of the announcement. se * Boston—The shrieking of sirens on airplanes and the flashing of a gigantic 2,000,000 candle - power searchlight announced the produc- tion of the 100,000th glass eye by the I. C. U. Glass Eye Manufactur- ing Company, of this city. The eye has been placed in a platinum set- ting and will be presented to the Smithsonian Institution at Wash- ington. The I. C. U. Company is pushing ahead to further production records as it features its slogan of “Bigger and Better Glass Eyes.” F. H.W. EDTIME Story—A man is as The Most Uneven Contest of the Season cold as his feet. comicbooks.com