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The top cartoon satirizes early automobile drivers' rudeness. Two panels show motorists kicking up dust clouds while dismissing pedestrians' complaints with "Excuse my dust" and "You're excused!" The joke mocks the entitled behavior of wealthy car owners toward common people on roads—a frequent complaint in the 1910s as automobiles proliferated. The page also features extensive advertising for the "Skatemobile," a 1914 automobile model, using hyperbolic claims about its simplicity and low cost. This advertisement parodies the overblown marketing language typical of early auto manufacturers. Below is humorous poetry mocking car owners' frustrations with unreliable vehicles ("Tinker, tinker, little car"), reflecting the widespread mechanical problems plaguing early automobiles. The remaining content includes light humor about automobiles and aging, typical of Judge's satirical commentary on contemporary life and emerging consumer culture around motorcars.

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THOSE POLIT Many tourists from this point begin making purchases from the numerous shops along the route. The stocks are complete, and, although the prices are higher than at localities further on, the sales to tourists are heavy. Crossing the State line into Winter (22 m), the next stopping place is CHRISTMASDAY 25m This is a city of generous and merry inhabitants, and all tourists are showered with gifts and are expected to reciprocate. The long tour is now about com- NEW YEARS INN 31m A. T. Merrick. The National Song TINEER, tinker, little car! How I wonder what you are, As I twist and poke and screw, Muttering till the air is blue. No Tire Troubles If the grass morn’s dew has wet i Or the blazing sun has set, Still you vent your fiendish spite, While I tinker, day and night. SELF-STARTING NO LEAKY VALVES ENGINES MEAN SELECTIVE TRANSMISSION : have to match. BEAT THIS FOR ‘Though my knuckles 1 may bark, Still do you refuse your spark; Still you rest, calm and serene, Over pools of gasoline. mastery of the car from the driver's seat tips operated with the slightest effort Tinker, tinker, little car! Though I wonder what you are, As I twist and screw and poke, Still I vow you are no joke. —Florence Jones Hadley. frame, and soap-box Joy rides often end in a jolt : ; Made Everywhere that brings one to his senses. SKATEMOBILE €j “COMBINES ALL VIRTUES” Easy to Control the SKATEMOBILE’S wonderful story. We only ask you to remember a few of the many ideal features of the SKATEMOBILE models for 1914. AIR-COOLED NO CRANKING HAS FEWER PARTS THAN ANY OTHER MA- CHINE ON THE MARKET—ITS GRAVITY-POWER NO BILLS FOR GASOLINE A CTUAL PHOTOGRAPHS tell most forcefully CENTRALIZED CONTROL: The word “SKATEMOBILE™ ocd comet pact arrangement a UNQUESTIONABLY, ae UCGHTEST CAR MADE: Kindling wood LAST and not LEAST itis by GREAT odds the CHEAPEST. ONE-PASSENGER SKIMABOUT TWO-PASSENGER SKOOTABO! “ASK THE KID WHO OWNS ONE” E MOTORISTS A Recipe for Old Age AUNT HULDAH claimed that she was well past the century mark, though the date of her birth was shrouded in mystery. Whether she was as old as she claimed or not, there could be no doubt that she had lived to a good old age, and one day a bright young newspaper man conceived the idea of interviewing her on the subject of long life. “Sho!’’ sniffed Aunt Huldah, “Anybody kin grow to be old. Dey ain't no trick in dat."” | } pleted, the road being straight 1914 Model “But how?’’ queried the re- i ahead to the starting point, just (An advertisement by porter. Hi at the county line—the celebrated Charles Phelps Cushing) “All you got, to do is watch out and don’ let no automobile run over you.”” Queer ! Some men are bored by readin’ In an autybiography, An’ some they thinks it’s stupid When an autygraph they see, An’ some they don’t care nothin’ In an autymobile to whirl. Why is it they all takes notice When they see an autygirl? Charles Irvin Junkin. All that Glistens— Jones—Why, I thought your car was a self-starter! Brown (cranking heavily)— It wes—in the catalogue. A Wonderful Car See—You mean to tell me you have used a car for five years and never had a puncture? Dee—I do. See—What kind of a car is it? Dee—Street car. Self-Starting CHAINLESS DRIVE NO TIRE TROUBLES of skates, They don’ SR SMES THT n't even ‘A compact the fingers’ Used Everywhere comicbooks.com