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This page is primarily **advertising and promotional content** rather than political satire. The main elements include: **"The Keeley Cure"** advertisement at top-left promotes a medical treatment for "Liquor and Drug Using"—a legitimate (if dubious by modern standards) therapeutic service that operated in the early 1900s. **The central illustration** depicts a domestic scene titled "Maybe She Is Not the Only One," showing a woman with a male visitor while another woman enters—a mild marital scandal joke typical of the era's humor about infidelity. **The poem "Same Old Story"** expresses cynicism about political candidates who promise reforms before elections but accomplish nothing afterward—timeless political commentary. **The bulk of the page** advertises George Palliser's architectural book of house plans and Herbert D. Shivers' cigar business, with Shivers explaining his direct-mail marketing strategy to skeptical customers. The page reflects early-1900s concerns: medical quackery, domestic propriety, political disappointment, and emerging mail-order commerce.

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SOO ORT OPTS Ty eeley ure ( 1 | Wizard Repeating | LIQUID PISTOL | zy be ot seoos }THE us ie ‘sey Bgetd, 7 A scientific remedy which has been fee Shot ine Mare skillfully and successfully administered by || “Parker, 249 South SLs Dents & New York. medical specialist: for the past 27 years, My best customers | | nesny tixoxsmevn & soxs PAPER MAS ER OUSE IN COMMERCIAL ART SAME OLD STORY, I've wandered through this vale of tears ny moons, I wot, een throughout the years of candidates a lot. And every candidate I've seen, inside or out of rings, | I recollect was very keen to do a raft of things. And so I've slumbered well at night and calmly read the news, Convinced, however went the fight, the people couldn't lose. But ardor doth, it seems, abound before the race is run, And afterward I've never found that any- thing was done, Courier-Journal. Copper headed—the police force Janes Mowroome: **GOOD-NIGHT!" | It is the last word. ‘There is nothing mote to said, wm The picture - beautiful, artistic, pertinent—speaks | | Adres Piaure Department, Judge Company | 225 Fourth Avenue, New York Add extra postage for foreign orders, MAYBE SHE IS NOT THE ONLY ONE. Banxer’s oaucnTer—‘ The baron loves me He proposed to me to-day. Her prieno—" Then he loves you—but do you know whether he love: one else?” — Jugend DO YOUEVER THINK ABOUT OWNING: YCLR OWN Hit F YOU are thinking ab .. Building a House an 1.:- vestment of $1.00 now will save you hundreds of dollars in building a hotse, by get- ting the latest and most prac- tical ideas of the noted and capable architecs, Mr. George Palliser, We theretore de- sire to call your special at- tention to our new book just issued and containing over ONE HUNDRED UP-TO-DATE HOUSE PLANS THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK 18 GEORGE PALLISER’S MODERN BUILDINGS 18 (all new) of houses ranging in cost A new up-to-date book, containing ever one hundred pls cammer Hotels, Stables, Public Hall irom $300 0 $2eon0§ also plans of Public Library Bald This book isa collection of practical designs shoving examples of houses _Feeently but, and in- valuable to everyone thinking of building, by reason of their having been, with very lew exceptions, planned ia basy archnect’s pracuce daring the last few years, and built ‘Various parts of the country w' Pall description accompani sires, height of stories, how built and finished, and reat value to everyone contemplating. il week cllow. ‘These designs and plans haves there: ale that can be fully appreciated for th ial ly, and standalone as real exampies some people's homes re planned and what the “To those wanting homes of selling home-sites, members of building associations, and companies, real-estate men, those having land {0 improve, carpenters and builders, and everyone interested of ‘who ever hopes to own a home, these designs are, mvalcable and will prove of very great value (© theme containa 15 large pages, noe te telochen.” Pie Send BO paper cover went by part im cloth, 42.00. Sent by mail, postpand, to any address on ey price. "Address ail orders with rematances ton” PoP id ov JUDGE COMPANY, 225 Fourth Avenue, New York Remit by monev order or check —don't send currency. were once among the strongest doubters of my | proposition. I have received many first orders for my cigars with postscripts something like this—"I don't believe you can do all you say, but as you take the risk, I am going to give you an opportunity to «show me.’" Those orders came from experienced smokers who know cigars, and know how impossible it is to get good cigars at $5.00 a hundred from retailers. But in justice to their sense of economy or to their taste for good tobacco, and because they realized that the terms of my offer put no obligations on them, they decided to give me and my cigars a fair trial, And that is all I ask. Those men almost invaria- bly have reordered and be- come my largest and most permanent customers, as well as recommending my cigars to their friends, Their second orders usually read this way— Enclosed find $10 to pay for the hun- dred cigars you sent me on approval, and for another undted “0 ye Sent me one rom date. You may lenter me as a standing order customer and ship me one jhundred cigars every two weeks. You have made good. Your cigars are equal to those I have been paying toc. to 15¢ each for.” 2 have a great many letters in my files reading almost word for word like the above ; many customers whose orders, from a doubtful beginning, have reached an aggregate of thousands of cigars, and to whom | am still shipping regularly at given intervals. Here is my plain-Eng- lish, no-risk-to-you offer : MY OFFER IS will send one jhundred Shivers’ Panatela Cigars on |approval to a reader of JUDGE, ex- press prepaid. He may smoke ten cigars and return the remaining ninety at my expense and no charge for those smoked if he Is not pleased with them; if he Is pleased, and keeps them, he Is to remit the price, $5.00, within ten days. The fillers of these cigars are Clear | Havana, of good quality—not only clear, clean Havana—no shorts of cuttings are used, They are hand made by the best of workmen. The makhing Ras much to do with the smoking quali- ties of a cigar. The wrappers are genu- ine Sumatra. In ordering please enclose business card or give personal references, and site whether mild, medium or strong cits are desired. HERBERT D. SHIVERS, 1919 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, Pa. ‘Shivers’ Panatela mxact sie comicbooks.com