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This page contains primarily **humorous short anecdotes and advertisements** rather than political cartoons. The jokes address early 20th-century domestic and social life: **Key Anecdotes:** - "About Due": An Irish countrywoman checks if her late husband is at the police station - "Hard Knock": A young man resembles an older woman's aunt - "Good Ears": A hired man puts a pitchfork behind his ear during breaks (implying stupidity) - "Territorial Troubles": A sergeant and instructor discussing military matters (unclear specifics) - Various other brief jokes about marriage, motoring, and commerce **Advertisements:** The page features prominent ads for **Evans' Ale**, **Kingsford's Oswego Corn Starch**, **Grape-Nuts cereal**, and **Hunter Baltimore Rye whiskey**. **Tone:** The humor relies on physical comedy, marital tension, and Irish or rural stereotypes typical of early-1900s American magazines. The overall page reflects period attitudes toward gender, class, and regional identity more than specific political satire.

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“one. I asked M ABOUT DUE. TRUE TO THE LETTER. A countrywoman, residing near the — The assistants at a large linen draper’s town of Sligo, thinking her husband was shop were preparing for the yearly sale. rather late in coming home on Saturday ‘* What shall I mark that lot of black | with his pay, went to the police office to silk?" asked an assistant of the em- inquire if he was there. : Is our Pat here?” she asked. “Mark the selling price fifteen shil- No," replied the constable; ‘‘ but lings a yard,”’ was the answer. | sit down; we're expecting him every, ‘But it only cost ten shillings a| minute.""—-Exchange. yard," said the astonished employé “‘Tdon’t care what it cost. I am sell- retorted the | ing off regardless of cos shop owner.—Exchange. ‘A HARD KNOCK. Smart young man—" You seem to be staring at me pretty hard. Do I remind you of any onet 7 ‘a THE TRUTH AT LAST. ustic old party—'* Yea; you remin A motorist was stopped by a police- me of an aunt of mine, only she's Kot ® man, the light on the car being Insufl- eee mere mune je than you have."’"— cient, He gave his card to the constable. jareon's Weekly. |,, 2G. J. Smith,” read the man in blu larity a erapectrai ava breakfast die G0 on with you!” he exclaimed, The popularity of erape-fruit asa breakfast diet’ want your proper name and address, inuereatiy enhanced by Abintt' Hitters We: Ie. tool eaeny Sitka about here: UNOBTAINABLE. New tool aharpl" en,” said the motorist, you The doctor's wife—' Well, Jane, 80) must theve it, it's William Shakespeare, your poor husband’s gone at last. Didn't Stratford-on-Avo im his medicine properly?’" “Thank you, sir," replied the police- “Ah, poor dear, how could I? man, Sorry to have troubled you.’ | Doctor said as how it was to be took in And he carefully entered the particulars | a recumbent position, an’ I 'adn’t got jn his book.—Pearson's Weekly. Green to lend me "ad one, but it was one. She said she Cake Baking Easy Cake-baking a problem? Not necess- arily—depends on how you proceed. Sometimes the cake crumbles; maybe it's “doughy ;” or perhaps the icing runs off. All these may be avoided with the help of Kingsford's Oswego Com Starch, the many wonderful uses of which are revealed in our free book of iginal Recipes and Cooking Helps” KINGSFORD’S OSWEGO Stincu opens up new possibilities in cooking improvement, imparting to everyday dishes a delicacy and goodness that is new to you. Unex- celled in purity—sixty-six years of superiority. Grocers—pound packages—10¢. T. KINGSFORD & SON, Oswego, N. National Starch Co., Successors The FULLY NOURISHED. | GRAPE- ED broke! So it were no good. NUTS A PERF Foon. CTLY BALAN GOOD EARS. First farmer—‘ That new hired man | of yours must have been a bookkeeper before he came to you.” rcoml farmer—* Why 802"* First farmer—" 1 notice that every time he stops work for a few minutes he puts the pitchfork behind his ear. Woman's Home Companion. No chemist’s analysis of Grape-Nuts can begin to show the real value of the |food—the practical value as shown by | personal experience. supplies the needed and nerves in all stages of jinfant through the strenuous times of |active middle life, and is a comfort and Moters will tnd Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup the support in old age. bent remedy for their chiklren. “For two years I have used Graj Nuts, with milk and a little cream, for AN EXTRAVAGANT WOMAN. breakfast. I am comfortably hungry Mrs. Belle de Rivera, president of | for my dinner at noon. the Equal Suffrage League of New York, I use little meat, plenty of vege- sa scent dinner: tables and fruit in season, for the noon had the suffrage, we| meal, and if tired at tea time take tnot that, where Grape-Nuts alone and feel perfectly women are con clined | Mourished. P to be a little unfair, a little churlish. “Nerve and brain power and memory “Their treatment of women is on a/8f€ much improved since using Grape- par with old Hiram Doolittle’s treat-| Nuts. I am over sixty and weigh 155 ment of his wife. He made her keep a Pounds. My son and husband, seeing cash account, and he would go over it how I had improved, are now using every night, growling and grumbling, Grape-Nuts. . like th My son, who is a traveling man, eats ** + Look here, Hannah—mustard plas- nothing for breakfast but Grape-Nuts ters, fifty cents; three teeth extracted, and a glass of milk, An aunt, over two dollars. There’s two dollars and Seventy, seems fully nourished on Graj fifty cents in one day spent for your own Nuts and cream.’’ “ There's a Reason, private pleasure. Do you think I'm Name given by Postum Battle made of money?’ "— Washington Star. Mich. Read ** The Road to Well- in packages. HEARD OVER THE TELEPHONE. Ever read the above letter? A new pears from time to time. They on nd_me up two bags of oats and @ are genuine, true, and full of human of hay.’ _ interest. ice—* All right, sir. Who is it women, long ag oe THAT SAME OLD QUESTION. “The horse, of course, you idiot.”—| Seating himself on the porch, he wiped London Globe. perspiring brow. | = I am going to ask you the old, old Insure he said to the girl at his side. Your Pleasure “Never mind asking it,’” she wiping her brow in turn. ““ Yes; i hot enough for me." —Philadelphia Led, er. TACTFUL, In the parlor there were thre Girl, the parlor lamp and he. Two is company, no doub That is why the lamp went out. —Prineeton Tiger. | AT THE SPIRIT SEANCE. Medium—* Is there any question you would like to ask your first wife?’ “Yes! I would like to ask her to lgive my second wife her recipe for mincemeat."’—The News. Take it with you wherever you 90. Any Dealer will rupprs it, In “Splits,” too ‘TERRITORIAL TROUBLES. Reeruit—“ Please, sergeant, I've got a splinter in m Sergcant-instructor—* Wot yer bin doin'—strokin’ y Punch. When Greek Meets Greek. The season of outdoor sports is on—— for the bat and ball, the boat and oar, the sprinter and track, the chase riders, the race course and riders, the swimmers and bathers ——to all of which enjoyments HUNTER BALTIMORE | RYE contributes the delights of cheer or the com- fort of strength, It is the finest stimulant for emergencies and the most perfect and purest whiskey for health and recuperation. comicbooks.com