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This page is primarily **advertising and light humor content**, not political satire. The main elements are: **"Stories with Smiles"** section contains three brief anecdotes: - Stock exchange joke about a constable encountering an unexpected husband (not a burglar) - A child complaining about sibling "competition" - A Black patient in Carrollton mentioning only missing his watch after a doctor's visit - Anti-suffrage humor featuring Ohio Representative Bowdle, who opposes women's voting rights, being challenged by a suffragist at dinner about why women take husbands' names - A final joke about a philanthropist giving aspirin tablets to a wet taxi driver The page also advertises **Zane Grey's western novel "The Rainbow Trail,"** Sunny Brook whiskey (marketed as "pure" and "healthful"), correspondence schools, and cedar chests. The suffrage joke reflects **contemporary 1910s-era resistance to women's voting rights**, presenting anti-suffrage arguments as witty rather than serious opposition.

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ZANEGREY y zs “A. spicy tale of adventurous ro- mance that will rivet more tightly the links of the chain of fiction by which this author has bound to him many admirers of tales of Western scenes and activities.” —Chicago Tribune. “*The Rainbow Trail,’ by Zane Grey, is the best book the author has given the public The story is as good a piece of adventure as one need wish.”"—San Jose Mercury-Herald. Frontispiece. $1.35 net HARPER & BROTHERS Established 1817 SUNNYsBROOK The PURE FOOD Whiskey PURE - MELLOW HEALTHFUL Write toxlay for our new 171: 1a ye po Free Trial PIEDMONT RED CEDAR CHESTS | Tour chgieg of 0 ates of the Ea prego d irda rtd, "We pay the cee MaaSes Bee or tree ei he, ticl tor eur big now S4-n00 1 ey coad pester fs Piedmont Red Cedar Chest Co., Dept. 85, Statesville, N.C. Stories with Smiles Hadn’t Gone—The story is going the rounds of the stock exchange that one of their number had the surprise of his life while on duty a few nights ago. What happened is as follows: Two special constables were pa- troling the sides of a big building, and the arrangement agreed upon was that they were to meet at one of the corners at the end of their respective “beats.” One arrived in a very damaged condition “Hello! Have you met a burglar?” anxiously inquired one. * ruefully replicd the other. “You know that pretty girl we were flirting with, who told us that her husband had gone to the Da = Well, he hasn't.”"— London Her Complaint—A little girl—now eight years old—had been the pet of the famil yone made much of her, but when there new little baby brother, she felt rather neglected. “How are you, Mary?” a visitor asked of her one afternoon “Oh, I'm all right,” she said, “except that I think there is too much competition in this world.” —About Town. Only His Watch So Far—‘There is an old negro living in Carrollton who was taken ill several days ago, and called a physician of his race to prescribe for him But the old man did not seem to be ge any better, and finally a white physi was called. Soon after arriving, Dr. S- felt the darky’s pulse for a moment and then examined his tongue. “Did your other doctor take your tem- perature?” he asked. “TL don’t know, sah,” he answered feebly. “T hadn't missed anything but my watch as yit, boss."—Old Joke Book. Well, Why ?—Representative Bowdle, of Ohio, whose vigorous anti-suffrage speech was the feature of a suffrage debate, sat at a recent dinner party in) Washington beside a suffragist The suffragist, desirous of showing wom- an’s serfdom of servitude, said: Mr. Bowdle, why does a woman, when she marries a man, take his name. But Mr. Bowdle, desirous to show wom- an’s sheltered and easy economic position, smiled and answered. “Why does she take everything else he’s got?" —Philadel phia Bulletin. Not What He Expected —<As the brisk philanthropist thrust her fare into the taxi-driver’s hand she saw that he was wet and apparently cold after the half-hour of pouring rain. “Do you ever take anything when you aked through?” “Yes, ma’am,” sai iver, with humility: “Wait here just a minute,” commanded the philanthropist; and she ran up her steps, inserted her key in the lock, opened the door, and vanished, to reappear in a moment When she had come down to the taxi-man she gave him a small envelope. are some two-grain aspirin table she; “you take two of them now, and two more in an hour."—Harper’s Magazine GREAT NEAR SPRING WATER urity has made It famous’ oe the cane of sis glass stoppered bottles Moviegrins for Movie Fans FILM FUN the magazine of the happy side of the movies, has the honor of presenting you with this little booklet of screen-screams. Film Fun shows you all your photo-play friends picturing them in their latest ventures, ‘on the stage and off with striking photo- graphs and clever interviews. Film Fun costs one dollar a year. With each subscription goes this little volume of “Movie- grins” pleasingly bound and bound to please. Pin s dollar to the coupon and send it in FILM FUN One dollar a Year. 2Sc for 3 months. 10c a copy FILM FUN, 225 Fifth Ave., New York J enclose $1. Enter my subscription for one year, and send me Moviegrins as odvert Name comicbooks.com