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This page is primarily **advertising rather than satire**—it's a sales pitch for a four-volume history book set titled "The Great Republic by the Master Historians." The opening rhetorical question ("If President—What Would You Do?") frames the sales appeal: voters need historical knowledge to make wise electoral choices. The ad then sells this knowledge by name-dropping respected historians (McMaster, Parkman, Prescott, Bancroft) and statesmen (Franklin, Jefferson) as authors. The text emphasizes American exceptionalism and patriotic homogeneity—"a Nation's Greatest Strength...in the Homogeneousness of its Population"—reflecting early-20th-century nativist ideology. The ad targets middle-class families concerned about civic preparedness and children's education. The "wonderful bargain" price ($1.97 for four volumes) uses scarcity tactics ("not many sets") and urgency ("first come, first served"). This appears to be a judge magazine advertisement, using the publication's editorial voice to promote an educational product aligned with its patriotic messaging.

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IF PRESIDENT—WHAT WOULD YOU DO? YOU MAY NEVER BE PRESIDENT, BUT YOU ARE GOING SOON TO HELP DECIDE WHO IS TO BE To Make a Wise Choice of Candidates It Is Important That You Should Know American Facts Bearing On The Great Vital Questions of The Hour. ARE YOU YOURSELF PREPARED to Contribute YOUR SHARE to a State of National Righteousness Through a Real Knowledge of the Great Events and the Principles Back of Them That Have Made Us the Rich, THE GREAT REPUBLI ‘BY THE MASTER HISTORIANS THE GREAT THE G EAT THE GREAT REPUBLIC REPUBLIC REPUBLIC BY THE BY THE BY THE MASTER MASTER MASTER HISTORIANS HISTORIANS HISTORIANS 7) VOL. ILLUSTRATED STRATED = ILLUST ILLUSTRATED Men Could Not Live Without Something Worth Dying For who settled New England, the Huguenots and her Wilderness, were n to whom wed to be right was as deep a religious It is to men of this type that we owe eld together by fighting for the right. sprang—our W . Jetier- nds, whose unco g stand for volumes. ad the story of the capture and h troops during the war of 18 The sturdy Pilgr Fathers consequer > in “Unpr ston by a handful of Bri J. Lossing, n power showing the iniqu hrilling stories told in th This is only one t y citizen of the United States at this hour. fraught with deep meaning to A Nation’s Greatest Strength i in the Homogeneousness of its Population— a homogencousness in ideals, in patriot not in race. There can be no great singe at actors, without educated to an appreciation of their art. there can be no gre followers, educated in a. knowled an appreciat ements of those immortal characters to whom we owe the inception and perpetuation of our national institutions. No American home, rich or poor, can afford to be without this interesting, patriotic and exhaustive story of our Great Republic. Powerful Country We Are Today? Why waste time listening to the mouthings of political hucksters and cart-tail orators when you can have these im- portant facts told to you in an interesting, masterful way by Historians like McMaster, Parkman, Prescott, Bancroft, Lossing, Hildreth, Irving; Statesmen like Franklin, Jeffer- son, Lodge; Journalists like Greeley, Watterson, Halstead— every phase of our national history by an acknowledged authority—in THE GREAT REPUBLIC An Illustrated History of the American People By the MASTER HISTORIANS Trade conditions have made it possible for us to secure on favorable terms a few sets of these four intensely interesting volumes, in which the editors have connected into one vivid and fascinating narrative the wonder- ful stories told by men of inspired genius of our rise from humble beginnings ‘oud position, and as our own contribution towards real R S at this opportune time we will offer these sets, while they last, to quick buyers at A WONDERFUL BARGAIN VOLU MES | Buckram Cloth Binding, Gold Decorations 1508 PAGES - 100 ILLUSTRATIONS $197 Printed in large, clear type from new plates, on a pure white paper. For the Set ORDER NOW Four Volumes For Less Than The Price of One— books that will stimulate patriotism, that will entertain you, and fascinate your children, that will give them a taste for reading that is worth while which they would get in no other way—BUT YOU MUST BE PROMPT. There are not many sets, and the price only $1.97, delivered, carriage pre- paid. First come, first served. ' Brunswick Subscription Co., 407 Brunswick Bldg., New York City Enclosed find $1.97, in full payment for the four-volume set of The Great Republic. Send books, carriage prepaid, to Canada, Postage Extra comicbooks.com