Pulp Fiction, 1926 · page 6 of 114
The Frontier, May 1926 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This is an **advertising page** from *The Frontier Advertiser*, filled entirely with classified and display advertisements from the early 20th century. The visible ads promote mail-order merchandise and services: prefabricated Aladdin homes in various configurations (ranging from $478 to $952), a typewriter with discounted pricing, an accounting correspondence course claiming to train public accountants, a skin-care product promising to cure pimples and eczema, a photography training program, an auto-trade correspondence course, and miscellaneous other mail-order opportunities. The page demonstrates the era's reliance on pulp magazines as advertising vehicles for home building kits, correspondence courses, and patent medicines—reflecting consumer culture and entrepreneurial aspirations of the period.
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THE FRONTIER ADVERTISER 6 WE PAY THE FREIGHT a - ; = ae we PT ee to eight See the materials for a compiete home direct from the manufacturer and save four profits, onlumber, millwork, hardware, labor. Living room, dining kitchen, bath. 3 other plans in cata- 4 log. Very high grade a lumber throughout. AIADDIN room, kitchen, 3 bed- rooms, and bathroom. Ali materials readicut, saving 18% on cost. Story and a half semi- bungalow, with second floor available for 2 bed- rooms. 2 floor plan ar- rangements, Any handy man can erect these houses. SceSecceecececcecccce i io] with circle-tread open stairway,diningroom, } kitchen. 3 bedrooms, || @epae’ , each with closet. ee J Bath on second floor. * . Price includes all lumber cut to fit; highest grade interior woodwork, siding, flooring, windows, doors, glass, paint, hardware, nails, lath, roofing, with complete instructions Ds and drawings. Freight paid to your station. Permanent | Homes—NOT PORTABLE, Many styles of year’round dwell- ings, summer cottages and garages to chgose from. Write IS nearest mill today for FREE Money-Saving Catalog No. 172%. THE ALADDIN CO., 84Y,¢!ty; Wilmington, North Carolina; Portland, GQregon; Toronto, Ontario ay WHOIS, room, 2 bedrooms, | le ) MICHIGAN | i | WAN URUAUALINNTNURAMATASIANIAA A SLESIOAAIAALES AAO pRICES Your choice of the World's best typewritera — Underwood, Rem- ington, Oliver--full size, late model, completely rebuilt and refinished brand new. ricea & anashed down to half, Act quick. Just send your name and address and we will mail you our complete FREE CATALOG prepaid, fully describing and showing actual photosraphs of each beautiful machine in [ull colors, Tells every detail of our direct-to-you smuall-payment plan. Write now for tromendoug saving. No oblicntion whatever. Sull time if you act now. international Typewriter Exchange 186-188 W. Lake Street. Department 483, Chicago, Ill, Accountin “THE CONTROL OF BUSINESS Accountants command big income, Thousandsneeded. About6,000 Cer- tified Public Accountants in U.S, Many earn $5,000 to $20,000. We train you thoroly at home in your spare time for C, P. A. examina- tions or executive accounting positions. Previous bookkeep- ing knowledge unnecessary— we prepare you fromground up. Our training is super- vised by Wm. B. Castenholz, A. M., C. P. A., assisted by staff of C. P. A.’s. Low cost—easy terms. Write now for valuable 64 pave book free, This Book FREE! LaSalle Extension University, Dept. 576-4 Chicago BLACKHEADS-ECZEMA PIMPLES Your Skin Can Be Quickly Cleared of Pimples, Blackheads, Acne Eruptions on the face or body, Barbers Itch, Eczema, Enlarged Pores and Gity or Shiny Skin. Write to-day for my FREE BOOKLET, “A CiearTone Skin,” telling how | cured myself after being afflicted 15 years, FRE $1000 Cash says ican clearyourskin of the above blemishes. E.S. GIVENS, 113 Chemical Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. %, Make Money in “=, Photo graphy! We train you quickly at home. No experience necessary. Spare time or full time. Photographs in big demand by magazines, newspapers, advertisers, etc. Portrait Photog- raphers make more money to-day than ever before. Commercial Photog- raphy also pays big money. New plan. Nothing else like it. Write today for details and new FREE book, ‘‘Opportunities in Modern Photography.” ; INTERNATIONAL STUDIOS, Inc. Dept. 1555 3601 Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. 3 hooling required. Weteach by practical shop methods with Se oh aautpiriant. No text-books. Thousands of walned auto mechanics wanted. Ipay your Railroad Fare myse ie : on. all you need, Course includes 8 Weeks Training autos, tractors, gas engines, bat- teries, garage management, oe pees ete. Write quick for big Free Auto Book and SPECIAL Tuition OFFER Earn $75 Weekly McSWEENY Auto, Tractor & Electrical SCHOOL 9th & Walnut Sts. Dept. 490 Cincinnati, Ohio em A ) ( ul =e f .¢ as @ a (— “A si bite 1 — ied a | bs at — =< R30 (ae i i x 44