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This page is primarily **financial advertising** for G.L. Miller & Company bonds, with two small cartoon elements. **The "Picture Dealer" cartoon** (top left): A shopkeeper offers a picture titled "The Coming Storm" as a wedding gift. The joke is the inappropriateness—giving a dark, ominous painting as a present for a happy occasion. This is satirizing poor taste in gift-giving. **The "Divorce Court" cartoon** (bottom): Shows a woman entering divorce court while a man says "What's she going to do to you, Sam?" and Sam replies "Put me out of my misery." The humor relies on the assumption that divorce will ruin him financially or emotionally—reflecting early 20th-century attitudes treating divorce as primarily a man's burden. **The main content** is a 1924 investment advertisement promoting Miller Bonds (7% interest) as safe, reliable investments. The letter column below discusses various stocks and bonds—period financial advice for middle-class investors seeking stable returns.

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Driannnenatl sean anand Picture Dealer—A picture for a wedding present? Yes, sir! Here's the very thing, most charming, “The Coming Storm”!—Passing Show. first-class, time-tested dividend payers listed on some leading exe Re. P., Conte: Mabe, Cate: You seem to misapprehend lation to the corporation: the “Stockholder's i creditor of the ean ther, and You can't ma not the chances of its making money. ds when these corporation tions of Ohic and there is p ntton mills in South Carolin da, tes will be t secured by pledge of of the Pelzer Manufacturing Co. quarell by New England S« Mills. of the Pelzer Co. have avera; i charges on these not New England Mills reports prosperity. The notes “were Id over 7.4 per cent. he Ame in Gas and Ele ie in 2014, area long inte Southern’ L, Batrinone, Mo: d light companies, oper ng $00 communities, with a Among the places served « Th Initial price of these debe 63 per cent M.D: company: is since 1809 C. Tarstox, N- J. The Metropolitan Edison Com- pany’s nulative participating preferre stock is tive and desirabl s issue price of 99 vielding 0 per cent. The shares are callable for redemption . Louts, Mo.: The Mis er & Light es not appear to be very str cquired going but is still young and not a payer of dividends it seems to be earning interest on its 614 per Hin, Py ADE. is not p 191 falling due in 19 mn of weakness tment, though 5 per cent. be 6 pe e not a highly low prices ly put on a 6 pe 7 per cent plants to from tha d purchase at their present B., San Fraxctsco, C Corporation paid a dividend on preferres bu mon, Its surplus, December the working capital quite large cerning the MeCree Petroleum One should be wary of little e Di Giorgio Fruit nown vil For January cipal; Interest up to 7% Southern investments; continually assured by 3. L, MILLER & COMPANY, Inc. 101 Carbide and Carbon Buil Ming 30 East 42d Street, New Please send me, ioe <blestin, the booklet, gfiat Good Lnvesiments,* and circular dewcribing & Miller First Mortgage Bond issue paying up to Name Address City and Neither 1 inquire about is of the kind a woman ve plantation and and to acquire the shares of ms whose dividends are ined. 400,000 shares of 7 per y of these come to grief. companies. Too ma of the two stocks y should buy. It is . established e« sure of being mai spezrita, Pa. pid. stock of the Ine. i high appreci yy the investing public, Ea 's with it one share of common. ‘The This company. was formed by the f the general and ‘operate public wiility. pro United States and in foreign la the company include leading American ¢: The company erties in th directors talists. es gas properties in Wi nd power properties in Wa over forty adjacent communities, with a population of about 70,000. 7% Bonds, Good from First to Last The simple merits of safety, a good rate of interest, and freedom from care are really the first things you are concerned about as a prudent investor. You will find these qualities in Miller Bonds Safety, based on a closed first mortgage and on monthly payments which provide in advance for interest and prin- (—the prevailing rate on first mortgage Freedom from care created by ample security and by the non-fluctuating price of your bonds. These qualities in Miller Bonds are created and watches over every issue, from the making of the loan to the payment of the last bond. Some of our oldest investors are Judge readers. Start your investment program for 1924 right, by mailing the coupon— today—for booklet, ‘Creating Good Investments.” ihe oe Investment: an organization which G.L.MiIccER & G. 101 Carbide and Carbon Building 30 East 42d Street, New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh St. Louis Atlanta. © Memphis Knoxville No Investor Ever Lost a Dollar | | | 1 I | Buffalo I In Miller Bonds The business is growit of 6 per cent. first lien earned. The bonds h 1 the interest on the new issue ind ref. bonds, seri is easily investment merit were 1 per cent. National Building and not been in business Its promoters appear to be ‘ion is subject to the supervision Such associations when well This one has very fair The Porttaxp, Mrs Association of Phil tes, N.Y: Tam skeptica Many of them have pro f not so strong can pay interest New Yonk, January “What’s she going to do to “Put me out of my misery.” comicbooks.com