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This page is primarily **advertising and filler content**, not political satire. The dominant feature is a large **Gillette Safety Razor advertisement** highlighting ten mechanical advantages of the product and testimonials about its ease of use. The left column contains three separate humorous anecdotes: 1. **"Hard to Break a Habit"** – A darkly comic story about Colonel Artichoke Gifford recounting a slave-trading voyage where crew members died regularly; a listener jokes the colonel eventually replaced dead slaves with the crew. 2. **"Just the Kind"** – A lecturer's story about a widow paying off her mortgage becomes the setup for a punchline about finding a thrifty wife. 3. **"He Educated the Judge"** – An anecdote about Chief Justice John Marshall (incomplete in this excerpt). The page's satirical content is minimal and relatively mild. The slave-trading anecdote uses dark humor typical of 19th-century magazines, but appears to mock the casual callousness of the narrator rather than endorse slavery. The page is primarily a **commercial product promotion** disguised as editorial content.

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HARD TO BREAK A HABIT. JUST THE KIND. Colonel Artichoke Gifford was in the! A lecturer was touring through the | talking country recently, and delivered an ad-| ancestors. They were sailor- dress before an audience in a country} iling from New England ports, | school-house. the colonel admitted, sometimes| In the course of his remarks he re- nning in a cargo of slaves from Africa viewed the agricultural prospects of the | n the trade was dull in other lines. | country, and as an illustration told a| The Gillette is Practical for You tell of one trip,” I remember hearing my grandfather * said the colonel, ‘when | had three hundred slaves aboard. weather was very bad, the accom- ulations none too good, and the slaves re crowded, A lot of them died. story of a poor farmer who had died, the farm heavily aid that the widow set to work with a will, and succeeded upon | one year’s wheat crop in paying off the leaving to his wi mortgaged. He entire mortgage. NY MAN will admit that it iso good thing in emergencies to be able to shave himself — and to have the tools handy with which to do it. Ihe buys « GILLETTE just for emer- HERE ARE TEN fundamental mechanical reasons for the GIL- LETTE doing the work it docs. ‘They apply to no other razor in the odd hare why ‘you can. form fs eotion of the ection of the GILLETTE by using any other razor. When he had completed his lecture, the gentleman shook hands and greeted | the members of his audience. One mid- | dle-aged man finally approached him thoughtfully and began: “Tsay, mister, you told a story "bout | the widow raising a mortgage on one year’s crop?” Yes, my friend, It happened irst day out twenty or thirty of them died, and they threw them overboard; next day twenty died, and they threw them overboard; next day the same . ‘They kept dying” ‘ “And, I suppose,” broke in a man/| smoking a pipe, ‘when the were all dead and disposed of, were so in the habit that they just | blacked up the crew and threw them werboard."”—-Exehange. “The GILLETTE ides is basic all the way through. ‘The GILLETTE ‘s kind to the face. It does its work with any beard and any skin Its the only razor that can he adjusted tor a light or a close shave. New proces GILLETTE blades ave paper-thin, flexible, with a hard mirror-hike finish and a marvelous keenness and durability, These blades are packed in handsome nickel-platcd boxes, hermetically sealed, sari- tary, damp-proof, anti-rust and antiseptic. Price per set of 12 new blades (24 cutting edges) $1.00, gencies he will find himself using it every day, because it is 10 simple-NO STROPPING, NO HONING—it is easy and it is safe. We advertise that a man can have a clean satisfying shave with the GILLETTE in five minutes, We will warrant that the average GILLETTE user docs not take over two minutes—and furthermore, that he has a bet- that was a true only two years ter shave than the barber can give him, better than he can give himself with the old.style razor, in half an hour. | “Well, sir, could you tell me who that widow is? She's just the kind of woman I've been looking for all the time.” HE EDUCATED THE JUDGE. This anecdote is told of Chief Justice jysme Herald, Nearly every GILLETTE. owner becomes -. John Marshall, Returning one after- ss aussie to hs soser hus hc ker pa‘ Suniel SILLETTE. reser wth av noon from his farm near Richmond, Va., | [ t—thinks more of ic than almost any other of yet ined full bether ease, $8000 to his home in that city, the hub of his PUZZLE SOLVED. his personal belongings—it's just that kind of a Combination Sets, $6.50 to $50.00. wheel caught on a small sapling grow- — . snes fig by the roads! “After striving une COFFEE AT BOTTOM OF TROUBLE. lle device. A beautiful piece of mechanism. “The GILLETTE iasold alo everywhere. fully for some moments to extri- It takes some people a long time to | A fine tool in every sense. No trouble to If your dealer can't supply you write to us find out that coff keep in condition and dependable at all times. Send for illustrated book to-day. But when on s hurting them. dof an gro man | ching. people try to keep away f i GILLETTE SALES CO. | ing him, he said, “If you will get which is followed by ever-increasing New York 263 Kimball Building, Boston xe and cut down this tree I'll give detriment to the, heart, stomach and i eee Dae Pasar pea ears ago I was a hea’ wri an Illinois st and had been all my life. "thout no axe, ef Until two coffee drinker," man, Tam said the judge. cked the horse until 56 years old. rof the sapling, and| ‘About three years ago I bi then brought the vehicle safely around | have nervous spells and could not s\ nights, was bothered by indige: ‘i n't charge a dollar for that, | bloating, and gas on stomach affected asked the astonished chief jus- my heart. | ‘1 spent lots of money doctoring. ,wuf a dollar to one doctor told me I had chronic eatarrh of the stomach; another that I had heart disease and was liable to die at any time, They all dicted me until I was nearly starved, but I seemed to get worse in- stead of better. | “Having heard of the good Postum | rn some folks sen: The darky got his dollar questioning. —Atlanta Constitution, SO SAID HIS WIFE. tick—"Smith asked me to come to had done for nervous people, arded his home this nse. "3 he's so- her and began to use Post ing, to celebrate his eten n wedding. I soon & t ber bite r, and been married Gladys only thre Inck. That's what I told him. He 1 itseemed like fifty." Meggendorfer eter, Why, he's fully say ie am sound os w “p well at night, ls not have js, and am not bothet ned or palpitation, | weigh 82 pounds more than when I be- | gan Postum, and am better every way PALLISER’S UP-TO-DATE MILITARY MATTERS. * rE ver was while drink x col iinthe wall fort”? tim as [am sure it saved my li pape Fetreating?”—Army and Navy in packages. E. have just published a new book, with above title, containing 150 Ever read the above letter? 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