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This page contains primarily **advertising and light humor** rather than political satire. The left column features "Stories with Smiles"—three brief comedic anecdotes: one about a rejected suitor told to love a woman "as a brother" (she then treats him with sibling hostility), a joke about coal pricing with pretentious terminology, and a satire on modern office bureaucracy where employees spend all their time maintaining filing systems rather than working. The right side is dominated by a **Nujol advertisement**—a medicinal laxative product. The ad uses pseudo-medical language about "friction in the human machine" and "constipation" to market the lubricant as a solution to digestive problems. This represents typical early 20th-century patent medicine advertising that blended dubious science with euphemistic language. The page also includes smaller ads for **Hotel Flanders** (New York) and a **foot remedy** (Bunion Relief). There is **no clear political cartoon** visible. The content reflects general early-1900s American consumer culture and mild humor about modern office life.

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Yet a Boston man found at a coal emporium in that city a chap who managed to infuse a degree etiousness into the transaction. How much is chestnut coal?” timidly inquired the prospective customer. “That depends,” id the salesman “A la carte, it’s cight dollars; cul-de-sac, it will cost you fifty cents extra.” —Everybody’s. System—The visitor was being shown about by the head of the up-to-date business hot - Who is that dapper youth at the glass- topped desk?” he asked. hat is the superintendent of the card index system. He keeps an index showing where the index cases are “Who is the young man with the gray gaiters and the efficient cars?” “He keeps an index showing the length of - time it takes to index the indexes. “Who is the girl with the golden ha “She decides under what index an index to the index of the filing cabinets shall be placed.” And who is the gray-haired man at the ‘dered desk in the corner?” ‘Oh, that’s Old Joggs. He doesn’t fit in very well with the rest of the office, but Thave to keep him around. He’s the only employe who can find important papers when I want them in a hurr: NYS Her Pride Hurt—* Your fashionable friend seems to be threatened with palpita- tion of the heart.” she has just received a dreadful d what happened to fortune’s favor- “She was sitting in an employment office Waiting for a chance to look cook when ahaughty dame swept up and offered her ap ouisville Courier-Journal. To Be Preferred—“Experience is a food asset.” “I'd much prefer the bankroll I exchanged mine.” — Boston Transcript. Seed Orances with a dash of Abbott's Bitters are ape War aad beatiful. Samples of bitters by mall, 25 ct to famps. CW. Abbott & Co, Baltimore, Md" (ADV) Friction in the Human eer Machine Approved by Harvey W.V od House- Station os constipation—the ism by which the breakdown of the mechan- body disposes of its waste. piareauof , | ‘RICTION in the human machine is called You can’t repair the trouble by means of laxatives and cathartics. "These give only partial and tem- porary relief, and almost invariably serve to throw the bowel mechanism even further out of gear. Permanent relief from constipation can only be obtained by restoring the normal functioning of the bowels. This necessitates lubrication—pro- viding the intestinal tract with an efficient substi- tute for the mucous which exhausted nature has failed to supply. Nujol is not a medicine b: tinal tract, prevents the co uta lubricant. It oils the intes- ntents from becoming hard, and facilitates the passage of waste. Nujol taken regularly, in conjunction with reasonable care about eating (coarse foods are preferable), will frequently bring about a complete restoration of normal bowel activity. Most druggists carry Nujol, which is sold only in pint ‘ bottles packed in cartons bearing the Nujol trade- mark. If your druggist does not carry Nujol, accept no substitute. We will send a pint bottle prepaid to any point in United States on receipt of 75¢.— money order or stamps. Write for booklet “The Rational Treatment of Constipation.” Address Dept. 13. Bayonne STANDARD.OIL COMPANY (New Jersey) . New Jersey REG.US. PAT. stant Bunion Relief ‘Prove It At My Expense Don’t send me one cent—just let me prove Itto you as | have dove for o1.6c2 ot others In the last eit mootha, claim to have it success i joa are. with bet Sieh ny ceeds ana t have such Peatote ‘Sontdence iat that tam g0- d you a treatment absolutely onderfo home iv of the ion and thus the ogly Sctormity disappeare—all this white you are weate ing tighter shoes than ever. Just send your name and’ nddress and treatment wil be sent Yoo prompuy in plaia sealed envelope. FOOT REMEDY Co. 3512 West 26th Street, Chicago, Il, Once a Flanders Guest, oe One HOTEL FLANDERS 47th Street, Just Off Broadway NEW YORK A Fireproof Hotel, with Every Modern Improvement 300 Rooms Every Room with Bath $1.50 per Day Upward This hotel is situated in the most id tion of the city, surrounded by leading shops, department stores and theatres. Except orchestra. A booklet gladlysenton application. HORACE R. SHARES, Prop. comicbooks.com