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Lifebuoy soap

Advertisement for Lifebuoy soap includes a comic strip “How She Nearly Lost Her Job.” In the first panel a red-haired woman sits by herself in a cafeteria wondering why her office workmates won’t lunch with her. In the second panel, two other women approach her table. The lonely woman recognizes one who saw “Mrs. Shea,” the office manager. The third frame has the two women sitting down at the redhead’s table. One says to her companion that she may have a job at “Mrs. Shea’s,” office since the current holder of the position has a body odor problem. In the fourth panel, the lonely woman suspects that she may be the one with the odor problem and decides to talk with “Mrs. Shea.” In the fifth frame, “Mrs. Shea,” an elderly woman, recommends Lifebuoy as the solution to the odor problem. In the final panel, the no-longer lonely woman talks with Mrs. “Shea” about how well things are going at work. There is a drawing of a box of Lifebuoy. Above it is a drawing of the redhead saying “I’m dated up every night this week.” To the left of her is a drawing of a man carrying a box and ringing a doorbell.


1933-06-25

21.5 x 35 cm

Tribune Company

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  • Chicago Sunday Tribune (June 25, 1933), p. 8

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