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This page comprises primarily **short humorous anecdotes** and **advertisements** rather than political cartoons. The humor targets everyday social situations: **Notable Jokes:** - "Nutshell Verse" satirizes a servant girl's carelessness with gasoline, resulting in death ("Gates Ajar"—a reference to an afterlife) - "Truth Will Out" mocks a political candidate who claims childhood beatings cured him of honesty—a heckler suggests the beatings worked - "His Friend" and "Effie" jokes play on gender dynamics: wives inconvenience husbands with shopping; fathers are expendable for dangerous errands - "Henpecked husband" jokes mock male subservience to wives **The Major Content** is an **AT&T Bell System advertisement** using "Open Doors" as metaphor for telephone connectivity—six million subscribers can reach each other. This corporate messaging occupies substantial space. **Hotel advertisements** for the Imperial and Gregorian complete the page. The humor reflects early 20th-century attitudes: gender role anxieties, class-based comedy, and acceptance of domestic hierarchy. No specific political figures or events are referenced.

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Nutshell Verse. Servant lady, Rather green; Balky fire, Gasoline. Pours the fluid; Travels far. Floral token— “Gates Ajar.’" —Louisville Courier-Journal. Truth Will Out.—-As an illustration of great devotion to truth, a would-be M. P. told his auditors that he ‘‘underwent a severe thrashing when a boy for telling the truth.’ Imagine the sickly feeling which came over him when a gruff voice called out from the center of the audi- ence, ‘‘I guess it’s cured yer, guv’nor!”” —Christian Life. His Friend.—Clerk—'‘Can you let me off to-morrow afternoon? My wife wants me to go shopping with her.’’ Employer—‘Certainly not. We are much too busy.’” Clerk—Thank you very much, sir. You are very kind!"’—London Opinion. Heroic Treatment.—‘‘Lady,’’ said Me- andering Mike, ‘‘would you lend me a cake of soap?” “Do you mean to tell me you want soap?” “*Yes’m. Me partner’s got the hic- cups, an’ I want to scare him.’’—Tit- Bits. Effie—‘‘Shall I put on my mackintosh and run out and post this letter, mother?”” Mother—‘‘No, dear; it’s not fit fora dog to be out on a night like this. Let your father post it.”"—London Opinion. One Block from New Pennsylvania Station Hotel Imperial On Broadway Thirty-first to Thirty-second The ideal place to lunch or dine. Where excellence of cuisine pre- vails, where service of the finest is efficient, yet unobtrusive. Amidst luxurious surroundings, en- tertained with music by an unexcelled orchestra. Luncheon, Dinner, or an After-Theatre Supper—in the Palm Garden, or Cafe is a: distinct treat. Convenient to theatres, new shop- ping district, and all lines of trans- portation. Popular Prices. ROBERT STAFFORD Proprietor Booklet will be mailed on request COPELAND TOWNSEND Manager The Open Doors the Bell _ Highway The Bell system opens more than six million telephone doors, so that each subscriber can talk with any other subscriber. It provides a highway of universal communication to open and connect all these doors. It also furnishes the vehicle for use on this highway, to carry speech from door to door throughout the land. The Bell highway is used daily by more than twenty million people—all telephone neighbors—by means of universal service. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES One Policy One System Universal Service Cold Critters.—In days of old the knights were bold and rescued girls they met, but now they fail to offer bail to help a suffragette.—-Louisville Courier- Journal. ‘Your wife told Ik dress of hers came from a worm. Egbert—That’s right. I'm the worm !''— Yonkers Statesman. Henpecked husband—‘Is_ my wife going out, Elsie?” Elsie—Yes, sir. Henpecked husband—'‘Do you know if I am going with her?”—Tit-Bits. [== HOTEL] .GREGORIAN NEW YORK CITY, 85TH ST., FIFTH AV., BROADWAY. 14 Stories, Modern. Absolutely Fireproof. Luxurious, comfortable and homelike. Nearest amusements, shops apd depots, NONK BETTER AT ANY PRICE. 300 Reoma, each with private batb, & g004 room and bath, §2,00 oy. OTHERS UP TO $3.50. PARTOR, BEDROOM, BATH, $4.00, Special rates week or month, Restaurant « tmearte. Ajo table a'bote. 'D_P_RITCARY. Prop. In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. « comicbooks.com