Pulp Fiction, 1922 · page 104 of 126
Photoplay Magazine Cover — page 104: what you’re looking at
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# Page 104: Photoplay Magazine Advertising Section This is an advertising page from *Photoplay Magazine*, featuring multiple commercial advertisements. The main ads promote chiropractic services (Universal Chiropractors Association, Davenport, Iowa), a corn removal product called "Freezone," and a diamond cluster ring by James Bergman of Syracuse, N.Y. On the right side, the page continues a serialized story titled "The Last Straw" (continued from page 103), which appears to be a romantic narrative involving characters named Lucy and Hugh Beresford. The page mixes story prose with period advertisements typical of early-20th-century magazine layout.
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104 By Merit Alone— Chiropractic has grown from an idea in the mind of one man in 1905 to the sccond largest health profession in the world. @ There are now approximately 14,000 practitioners, more than a hundred schools and about 8,000 students, Ask Your Local Chiro- practor for Booklet, “The Last Word." DEFINITION The practice of Chiropractic in the Union. econsiats of the adjustrnent, with the honds, of the movable segments of the spinal column t> normal postian for the purpose of releasing the Privoned impulse. @ Twenty-one state governments have recognized the science as distinct and different from anything else on earth, @ This growth in less than seventeen years has been, not only without the aid of other professions engaged in getting the sick well, but in spite_of their utmost efforts to prevent. @ Chiropractic has never had a single dollar of endowment fram state or national governments. It has overcome the prejudice of the public, the opposition of other professions intent on its extermination, and adverse laws in every state g It has recruited its patients from among those upon whom other methods failed, arid with these failures of other methods upon which to prove its efficiency it has grown like a green bay tree. Write for information*regarding Chiropractors or Schools to the UNIVERSAL CHIROPRACTORS ASS’N DAVENPORT, IOWA Do You Lift Off with the Fingers | (rameare sets hs: ; hurt a bit! Drop a little on an aching corn, instantly Doesn't “Freezone” that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift it right off with fingers. Your drug- gist sells a tiny bottle of “Freezone” for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or com between toes, and calluses, without pain, soreness. eae ELD CO RSL a | will be entirely sntisfied with thia woe hemeistul ring Poetcct cot eoaulne dienenis. | came and sidreas Lm v0 i know a girl beautiful enough for pictures? 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While J, you know, darling, how well I read. So I daresay I sha’n't zo there any more.” Lucy went slowly very white, She was normal little person and she had been “raised respectable.” Her sense of right and wrong was unconfused and very definite. “Hugh Beresford, you answer me this minute, Did you—have you—or haven't — you done anything that I—” “You mean anything technically wrong? No, Lucy. Maud Sutton didn’t appeal to me in that way. I enjoyed her mind, her artistic understanding of a certain side of my nature. That was all. But, my dear, what a way to talk. You're not a baby. You” surely realize that now that we have been’ married for years and years, I must have women friends. feminine interests, new ex- periences. You woren mustn't be selfish about those things, A man's brain must be fed. You can't expect to keep a man, say, like myself, all for yourself, No.” He came over and sat down in the big chair, pulling her down on hig Jap. i “You're just a litue home midge, Don't be silly, sweetheart, You know TI love you” better than anything else in the world. I don't say that if Maud Sutton had appealed to me—or that if the future should bring © me some woman who could actually win a higher love~but I doubt it, Didn't T_ marry you, Lucy, when it couldn’t mean a” thing in the world to me, either socially or_ financially? Lots of young actors would — have been looking about for a rich society girl. Haven't I always been a good, devoted © husband to you, and put up with your: funny ways and your carelessness and your —your mother? Now run along, dear That is—I’U run. But I shouldn't be sur-— prised if I could manage you a little car” for yourself soon, Ive just signed a new © five year contract here that—” “O-oh, Hughie, I'm so glad, Then you. did take my advice—" “Your advice? Well, darling, I daresa 4 I did if that’s what you advired, though I'd forgotten it. I’m old enough to think | for myself, you know. Anyway, love, don’t 4 you worry your little head that you'll lose” me, You shall continue to be Mrs. Hugh | Beresford, Only don't let your mother puts any provincial notions in your head. 3 is Hollywood in the twentieth century re-— member. And I'll be home carly to dinner. vi He slipped out of his dressing gown and — she helped him into his coat, ; S she scoured and straightened the dressing room, mixed new powder ta match the old, cleaned brushes with gaso- linc and put fresh paper in the drawers, Lucy Beresford was thinking hard. The™ more she thought, the more hurt she be- came. It was only a tecknical—the word — was Hugh’s—faith fulness he was giving her. He was going to have other women friends. — He had at the least been spending heaven knew how much time with that odious” Maud Sutton while she herself hadn’t been to a theater or-a cafe with him in weeks. She was a sensible little thing, but she bad to stop polishing the triple mirror and — put her head down and cry bitterly. . How nonchalant he had been about it. Didn't worry a bit. But to her it meant” a great deal She wasn’t twentieth century Hollywood. There could be only one end” to such talk. Marriage was marriage or else it wasn’t, to her. Up to now, as she had told her mother, the woman question had not concerned her. Well, she still loved him. She wiped ber eyes. She had enshrined him a before (Concluded on page 105) EGomicbooks