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This page is **primarily advertisements** with brief satirical snippets interspersed—typical of Judge magazine's format. The main editorial content includes: 1. **"A World of Joy"** (top left): A cheerful poem about setting aside troubles—standard sentimental verse of the era. 2. **Wireless/Telephone Joke**: A magnate confronts an inventor over unpaid "royalties for the use of my air," satirizing early wireless telegraphy disputes and the emerging question of who owned broadcast frequencies. The inventor jests about needing a substitute for "atmosphere." 3. **Literary Club Joke**: A husband learns his wife's club discussed a neighbor instead of literature—mild satire on women's intellectual pretensions. 4. **Graphophone Joke**: A man amazed a "full brass band" fits in a phonograph cylinder—wonder at emerging recording technology. The page is dominated by **period advertisements** for soap, ale, pianos, and carpets. The content reflects 1900s-era concerns: wireless technology disputes, skepticism toward women's clubs, and fascination with new mechanical devices.

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A WORLD OF JOY. cr remind us Of bright moments fled— Trouble ’s behind us And joy ’s just ahead. Bright eyes are glancin’ Sweet on us all. Join in the dan Hands round the hall! Trot out the griddle— Kettle must sing. Tune up the fiddle An’ jump in the ring. Grief cannot find us— Whistle it down. Trouble 's behind us 's come to town, Atlanta Constitution. Cough Syrup “What makes.) ed, that Will us m is inclined to drink more strong liq yp than is good for him?” me hehome last hall and) turned on aited for him my looked up at_me irl, and said, T r-running a harem, "Chicago Record Gold Medal at P: erican Exposition— yert’s Imported A ostura Bitters, 1p 6 chocolate with back to the dred and eight years you expect to live Uncle Hamp?” Uncle Hamp — + Lawse hahdly no use fo’ me to di insurance." —Chicag child, hit ai Tar Soap is pure, mild, invigorating and antiseptic. It soothes while cleansing, and for more than a quarter of a century has been The Standard For the Hair and Skin The Packer Mfg. Co., 81-83 Fulton St, New York, ann Tae Halk uP. a 2 nteps Tal SGU EE ; om DAN - s" said the fairy princ have whatever you w “L will choose, “either a wife or “How foolish ! “you may ate person, exclaimed the can manage?” T ain't got no iry prince. “Why do you not sclect something that you The cx-wireetrust magnate glared at’ the |luckless. tor of wireless tclegraphy with unchecked wrath. “When do I get the royalties you owe me for the use of my air?” he roared. The poor inventor stumbled from the room, his mind already busy over the problem of ng an ¢ transmitting agent that would be a substitute for atmosphere.—Badti- more American, Gs ODE TO EAU DE Q. 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