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This page is primarily **advertisements and humorous filler content** rather than political satire. The main elements are: **Advertisements:** Old Overholt Rye whiskey (marketed as medicinal), a correspondence course on cartooning, public speaking lessons, and a press-clipping bureau service. **"Stories with Smiles" section:** Lighthearted humor pieces including: - A child's essay on ducks (misspelled and naive) - A joke about someone mistaking a church for a movie theater - Anecdotes about loud snoring and a Scottish schoolmaster **Leslie's magazine promotion:** A mid-page image showing what appears to be a dramatic scene with the caption emphasizing that pictures convey emotion better than words. The page reflects early 20th-century American popular humor and advertising—folksy jokes, temperance-era spirits marketing (alcohol presented as health remedy), and correspondence-school self-improvement schemes. There is no identifiable political commentary or caricature of named figures.

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FOR A COLD— HOT TODDY RANDMOTHER knows well the value of a hot toddy for a cold—an unfailing remedy ever since her girlhood days, Especially, when it’s made with strong pure Old Overholt Rye “Same for 100 years —a full-bodied, straight Pennsylvania whiskey that possesses an absolutely un- varying excellence. Its medicinal properties - make it the ideal stimu- . . lant for the sick. Be an Artist M‘kE Money Drawing Comic Pictures. Let the world's fa- mous cartoonist, Eugene Zimmerman, spill a few ideas into your head Get the Zim Book—it’s chock full of valuable suggestions. Price $1.00 postpaid. Bound in 3-4 Moro Satisfaction guaranteed. Mone back if book returned in ten days. Address Zim Boo on Brunswick Bldg., New York Public Speaking Taught at Home fs! oi fee +, enlarge your vorabolary. Now nal when te nee Geatures\ bow to oul oven ieaenetnaceeed Sases rea Write Now for Special Offer £71,223} seh means! Wr biauten, ett wal thi aftr lst, For Men Whose. Shirts Pull Up sewn. Ship Cae is piven vind; bolds ot PRESS CUTTING BUREAU wa Bl send yea all newspaper clip- hich may appear about You, yout tnenus. of any sul ject on which you may want to be of i “up-to-da Every newspaper and periodical of importance in the United States and Europe is searched. Terms, $5.00 for 109 no! HENRY ROMEIKE, 106-110 Seventh Ave., N. Y. Stories with Smiles About the Duck—A little schoolgirl in Michigan has written the following essay on the duck: “The duck is a low h set bird. H a mighty poor singer having a coarse voice caused by getting so many frogs in his neck and he likes the water and carries a toy balloon in his stomach to keep from sinking, the Duck has only two legs and they are set so far back on his running gears by nature that they come pretty near missing his body some ducks when they get big curls on their tails are called drakes and don’t have to set or hatch but just loaf and go swimming and eat everything in sight if I were to be a duck I would rather be a drake they have a wide bill like they use it for a spade they walk like a drunk man they bounce and bump about from side to side if you scare them they will flap their wings and try to make a pass at singing.” —Detroit Journal. Sore Disappointment—The minister hurried down the aisle and grasped the stranger’s hand. “I’m glad to see you with us tonight,” he said. “I can see by the expression in your face that you are laboring under some deep sorrow, some great disappointment.” “You're right; I came in here thinking this was a movie, and having got in, I didn’t to get up and walk out.”— isan Gargoyle. Probably Just a Lull—Traveling through a new country in which a raw boom town had sprung up almost over night, a drummer put up one night in a so-called hotel, where the thin partitions of a range of bedrooms stopped, like the stalls of a stable, half-way to the ceiling. And in the stilly watches of the night he lay awake and listened to the finest demonstration of plain and fancy snoring that it has ever been his fate to hear. It was no straight-ahead affair, robust, monotonous, but full of sudden and awful variations. Sometime: strangulation seemed imminent; then, in the middle of a fantasia the agony stopped suddenly and silence. " From far away down s he heard a voice excl, 3 ank heaven! He’s dead!”—Pitts- burgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Couldn’t Spare Another—“ Noo,” said Macswich, the autocrat of the little Scotch ll recite that poem afore the class, Wullie Macsnortie, an’ see that ye gic it in perfec’ English.” The youthful William declaimed with such ability that the dominie was moved almost to tears—nay, he even rewarded the diligent scholar with a half-penn: “Tt wis weel dune,” he said, ‘near as weel as I could hae dune it maself. Ilsh mir Macalister, we'll hear ye next.” The recitation of Macalister was given in even more perfect English than the last. The dominie was delighted. “Laddie,” said he in an ecstasy of faction, “if 'd gic it tac —London Tit-Bits What He Wished to Say—At an earlier period of English rural life there was perhaps more of an equality between “....et aprés ca nous sommes...." EEE Jacques can see the whole thing just as it happened; the struggling grey bodies, the blinding smoke and the tear- ing shell. It is all as clear to him as it was the day when he fell with his shat- tered arm. But it isn’t so clear to Suzanne, she is listening spellbound to her hero- lover’s words but what a different pic- ture she see: Words can’t describe; they can only suggest. They can tell you about some thing you never saw and try to explain how much like or unlike it is to some- thing you have seen. But pictures make you see the thing with your own eyes— —and Leslie’s give you those pictures—6o to 70 of them every week from every part of the world and of every news event of importance. 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