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This page is primarily **advertising with humorous filler content**. The main feature is a large Remington Typewriter advertisement showcasing their "Adding and Subtracting Typewriter" with the Wahl Adding Mechanism—highlighting that it performs calculations, auditing, and tabulation functions. This represents a significant technological advancement for the era. The left column contains brief, light humor pieces aimed at children ("Humor 'Mongst the Youngsters"), featuring jokes about a boy misidentifying buttons as "push buttons," another boy confusing "foils" (fencing swords) with "fencers" (people who fence), and a teacher's student offering the biblical phrase "He rose from the dead" as a plural use of "hero." These represent gentle wordplay exploiting children's literal interpretations. The remaining advertisements include Leslie's Weekly classified columns, Challenge Collars & Cuffs, and various other period products. The page reflects typical early 20th-century magazine layout mixing editorial content with advertising.

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Humor ‘Mongst the Youngsters. The Ruling Passion. | : z Little Willie was an embryo electri- Rem i n g to n cian. Anything relating to his favorite stady possessed ubsorbing interest for . . him, One day his mother appeared in Adding and Subtracting a new gray gown, the jacket of which I e was trimmed in flat black buttons show- | Ht | t ing an outer circle of the light dress j y pew ri e r material. Willie studied the gown crit- if r ically for a moment, then the light of ] (Wahl Adding Mechanism) strong approval dawned in his eyes, | Visible Writing Visible Adding “Oh, mamma,’ he cried, ‘‘what a ! pretty new dress! It's all trimmed in push buttons.”’ Heard on the Street. A small boy stood in absorbed con- templation before a pair of foils, allur- ingly displayed in a shop window. At length his longing burst forth in words. “Gee! but I wish I had them fencers."’ A gentleman standing beside him had been watching him with much interest. He now remarked: ‘Why, my boy, can you fence?” “I don’t know if I can fence,’ the boy returned with some hesitation, “but I could do some mighty good pokin’."* This- machine -is the 8 w emington development—the greatest H | typewriter development of the preset day. eres. ~Itewrites, it tabulates, it adds—in/one or many columns—it subtracts A teacher asked one of the little girls | | | compates net totals, it-audits—it dogs everything but stamp and seal: in her class to tell her the plural of — | “Ix combines beg m/e machine efficiency and machirle “hero.”* “Heroes,” promptly replied the child. ew riter Company | “Now,"’ said the teacher, ‘‘make a fachvperatea) \y sentence in which you use the word . New- York and Everywhere | \ ‘heroes.’ ** i - For a moment the little girl looked — . puzzled, then a sudden remembrance of | ___ : — words that she had heard in Sunday school came to her and she said trium- pan me mw fon te ces Get What You Want Queer Resting Place. When You Want It Dorothy (after watching a spider cap- ture a fly in its web)—‘Oh, mamma, come quick! A spider is putting a fly by using the Classified Columns to sleep in its hammock !"” of Leslie’s Weekly. MAKES A ‘The Morse Caribe With a guaranteed circulation Tottie, aged six, was sent to the ce tor ‘machine Tt 000 bakery for some cookies, Looking over teen re pple L a ve Weeki i . alne Leste s u the assortment in the showcase, she d Veekt! pointed to the little cup cakes with cur- the best buy inthe classified field. Send rants showing through. = 7 We guarantee position “next to “I'll take,"" said she, ‘them little i reading.” Write for full par- humpbacked ones with flies in ’em.’" barmtla disc or cylinder. = ticulars. Six-year old Nellie saw her father —_ : : = an Tun to the assistance of a drunken man Leslie Ss $730 eral Champoten who had fallen in passing their door. 2 TLUSTRATED WEEKLY Machine, Taies, “Papa! Papa! Come back!’" she nots ints aioe cried, “You'll ketch drunk."” wre Phot eras A: C HOFFMAN SB NICHOL aa site eee ae ade ‘Adv, Manager Westera Manager abrere lover of a good cocktail should insist C | predis, Be yourown vous. 1225 Fifth Ave., NEW YORK Marquette Bidg..CHICAGO pond Sohott’s Bitters be used in making It; ineores AmeRican MinUTE Bi Daore ee eugetting the very beat. C. W. t & Co, ae ore S 21 In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com