10-Story Book, February 1928 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is page 14 from a pulp magazine called "The South Sea Island Number." The page features a black-and-white photograph of a woman identified as a Zulu widow from Kimberly, South Africa, accompanied by a sensationalized caption claiming she is "looking for husband No. 4" and joking about her ex-husbands' involvement in diamond mining. Below the photo is narrative prose describing a ship captain's plans to transport this woman homeward while dealing with crew and cargo matters. The writing adopts a casual, period-typical tone that is deeply problematic by modern standards, treating the subject with exoticizing stereotypes common to early-20th-century pulp fiction.