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This page is primarily **advertising** for Leslie-Judge Company's poster-stamp collecting hobby, with two separate satirical humor pieces in the right column. The poster-stamp ads showcase collectible miniature stamps featuring Leslie-Judge imagery, advertising, travel scenes, fairy tales, animals, and "Motion Picture Favorites"—a popular early 1900s collecting fad marketed as educational and artistic. The humor section, "Stories with Smiles," contains two jokes satirizing American life: 1. **"In the Limelight"** (May 14, 1914): A farmer's club secretary writes their congressman in deliberately misspelled dialect, asking him to remove economic laws interfering with cheap money and free trade. The congressman's pompous reply thanks them for their "valuable suggestion" while committing to nothing—satirizing politicians' tendency to flatter constituents while ignoring their actual concerns. 2. **"For Keeps"**: A brief joke about a toddler swallowing his older brother's marbles, used as an excuse to keep them permanently—poking fun at childhood logic and sibling disputes.

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Begin Your Poster-Stamp Collection! ‘The new fad—Poster-Stamp Collecting—is all the rage. It is an educational delight with all the charm of novelty, and none of the frivolity attached to the average craze. Old and young will find both knowledge and amuse- ment in Poster-Stamp collecting because it opens an avenue of instruction in art, printing, color and ad- vertising. Here is your opportunity to start a collection. 12 LESLIE-JUDGE STAMPS . . 10c 40 ADV ISING STAMPS . 25c ovens and Forien) ADVERTISING STAMPS—A 15 4 (Rare Subje: sets) 25c 15 ADVERT! G STAMPS —B 25c Subj 15 ADVE TISING STAMPS —C 25c (Rare Subjects) 37 TRAVEL STAMPS ... . 5c (Views of 60 FAIRY rae BS STAMPS . 5c 18 FLOWER. STAMPS . . . 10c 18 BIRD STAMPS. . . oe 10c 25 POULTRY STAMPS. . . 10c 12 ANIMAL STAMPS . . . 10c 22 CLASSICS and KINGS STAMPS, 10c 60 MOTION PICTURE FAVORITES 25c AMP ALBUM (Spx 1D Special Offers AXY 3 Sets of the 10c Series Two Stamp Albums to hold all the Motion Picture Series w! TH each order for 25¢ or over we will send the 25¢ Stamp Album for ‘The Coupon is attached for your convenience Leslie-Judge Company 225 Fifth Avenue New York COUPON LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY, 25 Fifth Aveaue, New York. Enclosed find Send me Stoties ‘with Smifes | In the Limelight As illustrative of the tendency of al present-day politician to magnify bimsi|) at home, and the short-cut methods ¢) catering to the whims of his consti ency, the following is self-explanatory: | May Mth, 1914. | Honurble . House of the Representitives Washington, District Columbia, Dear .... Our farmers club held there rege monthly meetin’ last friday night a nineteen of us wuz present. You kna we has always fought to be kep’ fne bein’ cut off in another county, so as! be in the 6th deestric, en how we ts) always been proud of you're going » congrus an’ of the fact that you bob! your own with all the big men up the | At the meetin’ it was calculated that th| law of ecynomiks wuz said to be a inte fherin’ with the new free trade law w/ the new cheap money law, and bein’ t secrety I was tole to rite and call yor attentun to it, so you cud hav that the law of ecynomiks wiped off the bocts Some of the boys calculated on accou of the mexicun war skeer and your othe hard work which has kep you there wy longer than any of the ole republics ever staid you had not thot of this a that their wuz a heap of other fella who would help you and that the pret dunt would not vetoe it. With sest- munts and confidence from all the boys. As ever your true friend Hon. ........ Secretary Farmers Club: My Dear Old Fellow—I am delighted at the receipt of your letter of the ltd}) instant and the very valuable suggestie | contained therein, which shall have oy earnest and vigorous attention at the earliest possible moment. With very kind regards to all = friends. Yours cordially, — Wall Street Journal. For Keeps—Mrs. Winship left her lit tle son, Randall, to play with his baby brothe: Shortly after, she heard th baby screaming lustily. Hurrying to th }) place where the children were playing | she found Randall picking up his marbles | while the youngster was trying vainly ® get hold of some of them Why, Randall!"’ said the mother “Don't be so selfish! Let your litte brother play with some of your marbles.” “But,’’ protested Randall, ‘‘he mess to keep them always, mother."’ “Oh, no, dear, 1 guess not,’’ replied the mother. ‘‘What makes you thist that?” ; “Well, I guess yes!"" howled Randal “IT know he does, ‘cause he’s swallowed three of ’em already.’’—Harper's, Moge zine. Wine Jetty when favored wit Avoott’s Kitters i m3 more delichtfal and bealthful. Sample of bitters BI Benin stays, CW. abbott & Cor Baltimore, BA