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This page is primarily **advertisements and humor pieces**, not political satire. The main cartoon, titled "MIGHT BURN 'EM UP," depicts a domestic argument where a husband and wife quarrel—he asks why she doesn't grow a beard, and she retorts that she'd rather beat him with a red-hot poker. It's a lighthearted, anti-feminist joke typical of the era, mocking women's tempers. The longer text piece "BRIBED AND GLAD OF IT" is satirical commentary on journalistic ethics. An editor jokes about accepting bribes (peanuts) from a society girl to suppress gossip, then receives gifts from a "Senegambian gentleman." The satire targets editorial corruption and the compromising of journalistic integrity. The remaining content consists entirely of **patent medicines and consumer advertisements** (Pears' Soap, Blood Poison cure, Postum coffee, etc.)—standard magazine filler of that era. The page reflects early 20th-century attitudes: casual racism, dismissive treatment of women, and aggressive advertising for dubious medical remedies.

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sg THE BOUQUET AND EXQUISITE FLAVOR HUNTER RYE IS DUE TO ITS HIGH CHARACTER AND THE REFINEMENT OF AGE ade Sold atall retctans catos ani by Jobvers, Wi AN ATAN 2 SOs akeore, ae PROBABLY A BROTHER OF PLUG. Mr. Auk Hatt, of Indiana, is registered at the Raleigh.— Washington Post. Pears’ Everyone admires a clear complexion. It’s an open secret that Pears’ Soap has brought the glow of health to millions of fair faces, Sold in America and every other country. BLOOD POISON FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS we have made the care of Blood Poison a Fpectaley, Permanently: Cored. You can be treated at home under samme gost: ¥, Canal Seow. We slice the most Sbatinate cases. i You have exhausted the old methods of treatment’ and’ sil have aches mt ‘Sore Spots Ulcers ar or Eyebrows fang ou, write for prools of cures, t00-page “COOK REMEDY Co. 1480 MASONIC TEMPLE, Chicago, IIL, U. S. As For KIDNEY TROUELES and SANTAL unten. tte BRIBED AND GLAD OF IT, “The editor of this paper begs to ac-| knowledge receipt of the first bribe off his editorial career, Some days ago we made inquiries of one of our society young ladies concerning a news item and elicited the following reply: * Yes, it's true, but ple-e-e-ease don’t print it in the paper. Ifyou leave it out I'll give you a nickel's worth of peanuts.” “ We are not passionately fond of pea- nuts, but gallantry is our long suit. That ‘please’ would have. separated us from our overdraft at the bank without a single regret. So we omitted to print the story. It wasn't anything very start- ling, anyway. | “This morning a Senegambian gentle- man, preceded by about six inches of pleasant smile, wafted into the editorial sanctum with a package under each arm abcut the size of a week's washing. “Peanuts! The whole family will be kept busy for a week eating up the out- ward and visible manifestations of our venality. We begin to appreciate the joys of being a boodler."—South McAles- ter (Ind. T.) News. CALL-OF THE WILD. ve you ever read ‘The Call of the Wild ‘No, but I hear it every day. My wife always imagines whenever our son is out of her sight for a moment that he is busy getting run over by an automo- bile."—Zx, UNDER WHICH KING? “THE MORE POSTUM THE MORE FOOD THE MORE COFFEE THE MORE POISO The president of the W. C. T. U. i young giant state in the Northwest sa “did not realize that I was a slave to coffee till I left off drinking it. For three or four years I was obliged to take a nerve tonic every day. Now | am free, thanks to Postum Food Coffee. “ After finding out what coffee will do ims, I could hardly stand to husband drink it; but he was not willing to quit. I studied for months to find a way to induce him to leave it off. Finally I told him I would make no more coffee. “got Postum Food Coffee, and made it strong—boiled it the required time, and had him read the little book, ‘ The Road to Wellville,’ that comes in’ + very | package. To-day Postum has no stronger ad- vocate than my husband! He tells our friends how to make it, and that he got through the winter without a spell of the grip and has not had a headache for months—he used to be subject to fre- quent nervous headaches. “The stronger you drink Postum the more food you get; the stronger you drink coffee the more poison you get.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Michigan. There’s a reason, NEAR ENOUGH. It is of a western girl that the story is told that she relused to marry a most de- had amassed four thousand dollars. After some expostulation he accepted his fate and set to work to save the money. young lady, meeting her lover, asked, | Well, Charley, how are you geting | along ?" “Oh, very well, indeed ley returned cheerfully. “I've saved sev. enteen dollars.” The young lady blushed and looked down at the toes of her boots, and stabbed the inoffensive earth with the point of her parasol. said faintly; «1 about near enough.” WILSIN Thats All! MIGHT BURN ‘EM UP. Panient—"' Fact is, doctor, we had a little domestic argument and this mark was made by a poker in the hands of my wife. What can you do for me?" Docror—" Why don't you grow a beard like mine ?"" Parient—"' But, you see, doctor, when my wife resorts to the po- ker argument she always heats it red hot.” COLLEGE PRESIDENTS. | COMING TO THE POINT. They may abolish kicking |“ Whether telling a story or shar Beyond the college ken, |ing a pencil,” remarked the observe But still they keep on pulling events and things, « The legs of wealthy men. time coming to —WNew York Sun, | Statesman. voted lover, a very free spender, until he} three months after this the avaricious think, Charley, that's| The best place for Rest, Recredlion or Recuperation at this season is ATLANTIC CITY and the new Fireproof Open all year Centrally located Haddon Hall Atlantic City New Jersey is especially well equipped to supply the wants of those who come to secure them. Write for Mlustrated Folder and Rates to The Leeds Company On the Beach WRITE FOR BOOKLET Leeds & Lippincott Always Open Between New York and Chic Via New York Central—Lake 4 in 23% Hours . hore Route .. :**LAKE SHORE ‘LIMITED.’