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This page combines advertisements with satirical commentary ("Snap Judgments"). The main cartoon/satirical content includes: **"Snap Judgments" section:** Social commentary pieces mocking American institutions and advertising. One notable item describes a lobster lawsuit in New Jersey—a cook was bitten by a lobster and sued for damages, prompting the writer to humorously question whether lobsters should now be muzzled like dogs. Another item satirizes beer breweries' attempts to legitimize beer as a "food" by mixing advertising with historical "education" (citing Henry VIII). The writer mocks this strategy as transparent manipulation—the brewery name attached to historical content undermines credibility. A final note jokes about Turkish-American relations, referencing a Turkish shot fired at the USS Tennessee, treating it as mere "playful attention." **The advertisements** promote dubious patent medicines and services typical of the era: tobacco-cessation pills, photoplay writing courses, and an "automatic adder" device. The page reflects early 20th-century American skepticism toward corporate advertising while also showcasing period prejudices and the magazine's satirical voice.

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Over in New Brunswick, in the State of New Jersey, where they license roosters, a cook’s valet got fresh with a fresh lobster, and the vicious brute turned on the man with a snarl, grabbed his in- dex finger and shook it like a terrier shakes a rat. Although the victim went to the hospital, he recovered from the bite, and, like Goldsmith's dog, it was the lobster who died. Still, the wounded man brought suit against the hotel pro- prietors and was awarded $210 damages. Is it possible that we shall have to muzzle our chicken lobsters as we do our dogs, or will the chickens have to wear gloves? The brewers of the United States have been trying everything from ancient hi: tory to modern medicine to prove the effi- cacy of beer as a food and to dissociate the pale amber beverage from its deeper dyed and more insidious relative, John Barleycorn, The ‘‘educational’’? cam- paign is all right so far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough. If the malt mag- nates would try some full-page copy of pure reading matter, more people would be attracted to the text. It would be both diverting and interesting to learn that Henry VIII., the great English lady killer, lived to be nearly sixty, in spite of the fact that he had six wives, simply because, through all his days, he, like Robin Hood, sang the praise of brown October ale; and the moral would be per- fectly obvious. But when the Dingbat Brewery appends its name to the copy, one begins to suspect that the informa- tion is not altogether disinterested. In other words, the advertising man is trying to perform the psychological feat of teaching history and selling his brand of beer at one and the same time; and, in the language of Goethe, das geht nicht! It is pleasing to note that when the Turks fired a shot across the bows of the launch from the Tennessee, it was merely a little playful attention. 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