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This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content**, not a political cartoon. It consists of: 1. **Hotel advertisement** (top) for the Hotel Earlington in Manhattan 2. **Encyclopedia advertisement** (main content) for the New International Encyclopedia, Second Edition The encyclopedia ad is notable for its **World War I context**. It explicitly markets the work as essential for understanding the war by listing confusing military and foreign terms readers encountered daily—"Mitrailleuse," "Turcos," "Landwehr," "Przemysl"—and diplomatic concepts like "Commercial Centers of Latin America" and "Rules of War." The pitch: modern readers desperately need this reference work to understand "The Truth About the War" and current events. This reflects how WWI generated unprecedented public demand for information about unfamiliar military technology, geography, and international affairs. The page contains editorial content on the right side but no political cartoons visible.

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Dodd, Mead & Company PUBLISHERS 449 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK ond ion the New International Encyclopedia with details of special prices, ete. Occupation......06++ Bus. Address... Residence... Town..... All Alike EDITOR PRICE, of the always exhile| rating Publisher and Retailer, which never lacks gingery comment upon cur. rent publications, calls the Americas press humorists who were pictured ing recent JupGE ‘‘the homeliest lot of mes ever portraited.’’ The only homelier lot of persons, according to Editor Price, are the ball players. Well, handsome is as handsome does, the world over. The humorists ought te get along fairly well with what Natur has given them. And they do seem te get along with just brains and the knack of amusing the public. Jupce would like to have Editor Price dig into what Shakespeare calls ‘‘the dart backward and abysm of time’’ and bring forth one humorist who really was hand. some. If the chroniclers were right, eves the earlier humorists, known as court jesters, were selected for their ugliness as well as for their wit. Artemus Ward, Josh Billings, Bill Nye, Frank Stockton and all the tribe of humorists known te the world’s joy were so homely that they could stop a train of cars without holding aloft a red flag. And there you are, What, really, can be done about it? Thoughtful Thoughtlessness ROFESSOR BLANK, a learned man, Was deep in thought one day, And as he thought he knew his thoughts Had gone that morn astray. His students saw his studious mood And wondered what he thought, For they could see his thoughts were not On thoughts of what he taught. It’s something I must do," he thought. “Now let me, let me think !”” He stayed awake that night and thought And never slept a wink. At breakfast, while he thought and thought, His wife prepared the toast; Then asked, ‘* You mailed my letter, John, I gave to you to post?” His hand obeyed his mind at once— Reached in the coat he wore— And there he touched the thing itself— His long, deep thought was o’er. His wife looked cross across at him, As it was brought to view. “Oh, John,” she cried, ‘‘you did forget! How thoughtless ‘twas of you!"’ —E. B. Grimes Uncle Fogy’s Philosophy Acting the fool never goes out of fash ion. Religion swells the hearts of some men and the heads of others. Some sins are committed on account of their high-sounding names. . Some men spoil their piety by acting 88 if they had invented virtue. Raise up your children in the way other people’s children should go. Sliced Oranges with a dash of Abhott's Bitters - ma sppetising ‘nnd bealthtal” Sample. of bitters, BY Peta Te Rama CW. abbott & Cox, Baltimore, Ma. UV) comicbooks.com