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This page contains period advertisements and editorial content typical of 1920s Life magazine. The dominant image is an advertisement for Spergley's spearmint gum, showing a silhouetted profile smoking and holding the product, with text promising it works "between smokes and when you can't smoke." This references Prohibition-era restrictions on smoking in certain venues. Below are advertisements for Liquid Arvon (a dandruff cure) and the Russell Patterson School of Humorous Illustration, promoting both personal grooming solutions and commercial art training as profitable pursuits. The text includes "The Great Alibi Contest," where readers submit captions for pictures, and lighter humor pieces including "Shakespearean Anyway" (a joke about college athletes misquoting Hamlet) and "A Bevy of Husbands" (a brief newspaper clipping likely poking fun at unusual marriages). Overall, the page reflects 1920s consumer culture focused on self-improvement, commercial entertainment, and gentle social satire rather than political commentary.

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Between smokes and when you can’t smoke. } . BS A Sure Way To End Dandruff | ‘There is one sure way that n remove dandruff completely, to dissolve it. Then you destroy it en- tirely. To do this, just apply a little Liquid Arvon at night before retiring; use enough | to moisten the scalp and rub it in gently with the finger tips. By morning, most, if not all, of your | dandruff will be gone, and two or three more applications will completely dissolve and entirely destroy every single sign and trace of it, no matter how much dandruff you may have. ‘You will find, too, that all itching of the scalp willstop instantly and your hair will be lustrous, glossy, silky and soft, and look and feel a hun- dred times berter, You can get Liquid Arvon at any drug store, and a four ounce bottle is all you will need. This simple remedy nev: er been known to fail. yoy Makes a $150 Drawing ina Few Hours! —and now teaches you his original methods ina series of 20 snappy lessons — brimful with sparkling interest from the very start — a de- parture from the purely conventional. This training consti- tutes the last word in Humorous! lustration, teaching a New Art for a New Age—a pleasant relief from the old style, standardized instruction. Learn to draw the dashing, peppy types that are all the rage as exemplified by Mr. Patter- son’s numerous contributions to maga- zines. Let him teach you his clever technique. What profession could com- pare with this in its irresistible appeal or sheer earning power? Write now for full information. Russell Patterson School of Humorous Illustration Michigan Ave. at 20th St., Dept. 5 CHICAGO - - = - . ILLINOIS | The Great Alibi Contest (Continued from page 13) “Well, you sce, it’s this way...” Five second prizes of $10.00 each will be awarded to the runners-up, Answers must not exceed twenty- five words in length; this word limit, however, is not intended to include the captions under the Contest pic. tures as originally published in Live. There is no limit to the number of answers to each Contest picture that any one contestant may submit. Nor it necessary for a contestant to submit answers to more than one of the Contest pictures to be cligible for a prize. The Judges will be three of the Editors of Lire. In the event of a tie, the full amount of the prize will be awarded to cach of the tying contestants. Answers should be typewritten or clearly written on one side of the paper. Every single sheet of manu- script submitted must be plainly marked with the contestant’s name and address. The Judges cannot un- dertake to return any of the manu- scripts that are submitted in this Contest. Answers to ALIBI NUMBER THIRTEEN should be so m and sent to ALIBI CON EDITOR, Lire, 598 Madison Avenue, New York City. All an- swers to ALIBI NUMBER THIR- TEEN must reach Lire’s office be- fore 12 noon on March 2+, 1927. Announcement of the winners will be made in the issue of April 14, 1927. The Contest is open to all and is not limited to subse : PE. Members of Lirr’s staff, and thei families, are barred from compcti- tion, Shakespearean Anyway Coxversation of two campus asthetes, recently overheard: “You know, I feel like Hamlet did when he said: ‘O Death! where is thy sti " “Well, what did Hamlet say? “Hamlet said: ‘My kingdom horse.” “Well, that’s nice, too.” —Brown Daily Herald. for a A Bevy of Husbands “Her marriage to William Schultz, W, B. Phillips, and Robt. Smyers, of Genola, Kaa, will take place in the near future.” =£ hr fornia pope Renearstxc for the movies, evidently. New Yorker. Tuene are times when we'd like to be a Prohibition agent—they meet so many interesting people. —New York Evening Post. did ten ont hear of si Fel asse whic nisg banc fors' Len mak the | weel cont ness two plat that whi plar cont ing whi men does size boa: that crue how ast floa comicbooks.com