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This page contains two brief humorous anecdotes and a Bell Telephone advertisement. **"Saving Time"** satirizes Senator Swanson's impatience: he misses his train, borrows a slow horse-drawn cart, and complains to the driver about speed. The driver's absurd response—suggesting Swanson simply "catch the car behind me" whose mules are faster—mocks the senator's unreasonable demands and the futility of his impatience. **"A Kentucky Suspicion"** depicts a Black man expressing doubt about Champ Clark's (a real Missouri politician) birthplace. The man claims Clark's recent anti-alcohol speech contradicts being born in Kentucky, implying Kentuckians wouldn't take such a stance. The humor relies on period racial dialect stereotyping. The **Bell Telephone ad** uses the anecdotes' theme of distance and communication to promote telephone service's expanding reach—a metaphorical "horizon" extending human connection across the continent. A **Keeley Cure advertisement** for alcohol and drug treatment appears at bottom, typical of era medical advertising.

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