ComicBooks.com Register / Loginit's free!

Life, 1927-02-10 · page 11 of 43

Life — February 10, 1927 — page 11: what you’re looking at

📖 Open the full issue in the page-flip reader →
Life — February 10, 1927 — page 11: Life, 1927-02-10

What you’re looking at

**Top Cartoon:** A winter street scene showing people shoveling snow near a bare tree and city buildings. The caption jokes about bad weather: someone got "a good tip this morning" about a blizzard coming from Chicago—implying the tip was useless since the blizzard arrived anyway. This is simple observational humor about weather and failed advice. **"The Composite Advertisement Reader Plans a Trip":** The main article features a man being pulled in opposite directions by conflicting vacation ads—one promoting the Southland (beaches, golf, warmth) and another promoting Niagara Falls. The satire targets how magazine advertisements oversell competing, mutually exclusive destinations to readers, creating absurd desire for impossible trips.

📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“pON’? SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT, BUT 1 GOT A GOOD TIP TIS MORNING. “now's THE MARKET?” BLIZZARD FROM CHICAGO DUE TO-NIGHT.” THERE The Composite Advertisement Reader Plans a Trip I un- “WELL, Mr. Courteous Repre- joyous Latin scheme of life. and bathing, surf riding, motor boat- sentative of a Travel Bu and that. the abound ing, and regular steamship service, the Southland is calling me, La hall sorts of game fish and birds as well as the m: of the Gulf land is luring me, All Out- | => FETC > Stream pleasures doors is beckoning me, and social ands of romance, I want to visit a thriving, beautiful city, a national shrine and scenic marv reminiscent of earlier day with a complete double- tracked railway, modern facilities, narrow winding streets, and — well-paved roads in a region unmarred by man yet thronged with visitors—a land of snow- capped peaks, quiet lakes and eternal summer, and replete with native legends, daily band concerts, pre- historic dwellings, and a new de lure mammoth hotel on the American plan, in the Continental manner, with hot and cold running water, dependable guides, cightcen-hole golf courses, and all the spontancous gaicty and freedom from restraint that marks the L Aiea saimae A Luxury Which Movie Folk Will Have to Forego with the Coming of the Vitaphone She: you Bic nam! IP YOU'RE AN ACTOR, I'M WILL HAYS’ PET CANARY BIRD. He: TAKE THE AIR, UGLY! TIERE’S LOTS OF GOOD DISH-WASHING JOBS STILL OPEN. although I owe it to myself to take a long tion in this wonderland of sea and sky with oppor- tunities for outdoor sports, I guess I "t afford it, and will you ple: i Texas Law D EFENSE ATTOR- d : Gentlemen of the jury, the defendant killed in self-defense! Orrense Atrorney: Did the murdered man draw first? D. A.: No, but we are prepared to prove that he would have drawn first if he'd had a gun. comicbooks.com