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This page contains multiple satirical pieces and advertisements rather than a single cohesive cartoon. The top section titled "JUDGE" depicts three scenes: a city planner with telescope surveying destruction, building rubble, and a city editor requesting pictures—satirizing urban development and journalism's sensationalism. Below are poems and humorous pieces: "Life's Continual Warfare" mocks married life, "An Alphabet of Cities" jokes about American municipal stereotypes (Albany's attention to beans, Detroit's housing, etc.), and "At a Husking Bee" is a flirtation poem. "The Domestic Insurgent" cartoon shows a woman in conflict with a man, satirizing domestic disputes. Other sections include job-wanted and exchange ads, plus "The Hobble Skirt" cartoon mocking a then-fashionable tight skirt style. The page reflects early 20th-century American concerns: urban growth, gender relations, and fashion trends.

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1. Come on, now. and see the twink- ling top of the Jungfrau building, ten cents a peep."” Life’s Continual Warfare. A PATRIOT is a man who successfully hooks his wife's clothes. A martyr is a man who makes the en- deavor and fails. A hero is the man who refuses to try. A coward is a man who remains single to avoid it. y THE DOMESTIC INSURGENT. A Flat-dweller Chortles. Be MLANDBURGH WILSON PON the auto, in past days, L used to pour my wrath, And call down curses every time It streaked across my path. The gasoline I thought nch, The horn a crime intense, Its lordly air upon the street An insolent offense. But now its horn is music sweet, Its smell a perfume rare; That it should take up all the road I think is only fair. Piano manufacturers In bankruptcy are seen; Folks do not buy pianos now, But get a buzz machine. CITY PROGRESS. 2. The charge of the High Brigade, and the old landmarks surrender. An Alphabet of Cities. By HARVEY PEAKE Albany arresting attention annually. Boston baking beans and brown bread. Chicago's college cutting capers. Detroit developing delightful domiciles. Easton earnestly endeavoring to emerge. Fall River furnishing famous factories. Gloucester getting gales and gulls. Houston having heat and health. in interest. iling jags. City konserving kanned kulture. Louisville living luxuriously. Memphis making many millionaires. Newport naturally neutralizing nobodie Omaha overcoming Occidentalism. Pittsburgh patiently praying for purity. Quincy questioning quaking quacks. Richmond radiating respectability. St. Louis stewing and selling suds. Tacoma tickling travelers tremendously. Utica unique in urban utilities. Vicksburg viewing varieties of vessels. Washington whirring with witless wind. Xenia ’xpecting ‘xcellent ‘xpressions. Yonkers yielding Yankee yaps. Zanesville zanies zealously zigzagging. A Hoo: Chorus. 0 YOU would like to run again, Beverage, my Beverage? And now at last you think you need Leverage, my leverage? We know your hair is nice and long, An insurgent we found you strong; But in whose ranks do you belong, Beverage, my Beverage? Our Exchange Bureau. Exchange What You Des't Waat for What You Ds. eradate of ied amiable, and. alert, BA, lock bor 12, Hoboxes. T HAVE fio ittiar main en's Ofer telused. Tabitha Migeios, Mioks yi ‘ese fot him tor teasons of het own. Tintypes of my supply will be fursisded (on sealication, week's tial on both sides only condi- tion. Summer Girl, Lowe Braoch, N. J City editor —"" 1 want a picture of the city sky- Head of art department—'* Yes, sit; I had this one made just this morning. | City editor—"* This morning! That's ancient history, I want a picture as it looks now at 5.30 At a Husking Bee. By ESTELLE MAY NoLTE. IN A BODY meet a body At a husking bee, Gin a body choose a body Need a body flee? Every laddie has a lassie— Every one I see— Yet all the girls they smile at me When at a husking bee. Gin a body find a red ear At a husking bee, Gin a body claim a kiss then On a bended knee, Every lassie from her laddie Makes a rush at me— Oh, it is just lots of fun When at a busking bee! THE HOBBLE SKIRT. She doesn't like the style. comicbooks.com