Life, 1929-08-09 · page 3 of 44
Life — August 9, 1929 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising, not satire or political content**. It's a Temple Corporation advertisement for radio equipment, specifically promoting their "Templetone Radio" line. The page plays on the phrase "Tone is Everything" to market Temple's radio receivers and speakers as superior audio solutions. The advertisement emphasizes that Temple has engineered acoustic equipment to eliminate radio's characteristic distortion—"the hum that kills the music." The small illustrations show radio chassis and speakers. "Temple Nights" appears to be a radio program. The text targets radio owners seeking better sound quality, a significant consumer concern during the early radio era when audio fidelity remained problematic. This is essentially a vintage consumer electronics advertisement, not political or social commentary.
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Ie snid chassis co™ ‘i equipment C' tior yanee in price a is Everything : iS = Temple is all-electric. Stand- ard chassis — six 227 tubes— push pull amplification in last audio stage, using two new 245. power tubes —fullwave rectification. A power supply «over-sized in every respect in coubination with the Temple Dynamic Speaker assures matchless tone for Temple Receivers, Consoled ready for use. The Temple 860 Con- soles... $149; The Temple 8.80 Grand Console + $189 (less tubes). Temple Keceiv- ers are licensed by R.C. A. and Associated Companies, Prices slightly higher west of Rocky Mountains, HF... to cure the hum that kills the music? How to produce pure tone, rich, faithful, flawless, unimpaired by the evil genie of radio? Temple’s acoustical engineers have solved this question. They have created a set and a speaker in which an acoustic miracle has heen worked. 2. 6 6 6 ee eee : of a less- than-perfect mechanism. Temple is radio built for Sybarites who cannot enjoy music with a mechanical flavor... . TEMPLE CORPORATION TAGO, U.S.A. NIGHTS Kvery Saturday Housed in beauty, the Temple Dynamic is the only speaker with the adjustable hum eliminator feature. Separate table type speakers are available for those who do not own » Temple Receiver 139.00 for the Dynamic Speaker $20.00 for the Magnetic Speaker o N t] Vives Slightly Higher West of Kucky Miwataias “THE SWITCHBOARD OF A NATION™ comicbooks.com ~