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# Contents Page Analysis This is a **table of contents** from *Life* magazine, not a cartoon or illustrated article page. It lists story titles, articles, and features with their corresponding page numbers. The entries reflect early 20th-century American concerns: articles on labor ("Men Must Work"), domestic life ("Keeping the Faith"), social commentary ("Making Good"), seasonal humor (Thanksgiving and holiday-themed pieces), and popular entertainment features. Notable are references to "Poker Terms," "Philosophy," and romantic comedies ("Popular Play: As in a Looking Glass"), suggesting the magazine's mix of satire, advice, and light humor for middle-class readers. Without seeing the actual illustrated pages, I cannot identify specific cartoons or their satirical targets.
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fi une. 2 ew we ee . ustthe Trouble . . 2. 2. 1. OST Keeping the Faith. Title page No. 554 189 Keeps Nothing to Himself . . . Kemble, 76, 115, 124, 167.1 186, 197, 249.50 o 8 8 Land of the Siren. . «72-3 Latest Thing in Duck Trousers | + 179 Leaves from the Diary of an Under- graduate 2. 1. 1 we 6 230 Lire’s Arithmetic. . . . «44, 108 Lire’s Future Home. . 369 Live's Representative and Sea Ser- pent. . . # % Light from the Orient = & & Liquidating his Bill . Lock Picking . Look, Girls, what I" just found in the Hay-loft—. . . + 298 Love and Courtship. . . . . . 390 Lovely Picture, A . +. 138 Levee PGs ce ke we oH McDougal . . . . . . 4ts Made of Sighs... 1 No. 549 Making Hay while the Son Shines . 45 Man Overbored . . 117 Man who had his Trousers Creased at Home, The . ae Meal Time at Lirr’s Farm). |. 86 Meeting with Reverses. . . . . 385 Men Must Work . . . . . «152-3 Mighty Bad Fix, A DL. 367 Million Pensioners, A. . . . . 248 Misdirected Encouragement . . . 28 Missionary and Soap Shot Pete. . 28 Modesty. . . . ++ @ More Important eee ew oe 6 AIG Movable Feast, AW. 5... . 199 Moving Tail, A 117 Mr. Diamondstein's Hounds at Long Branch. . . . 2 me ae cog Mulieres . ¢ 8 4 & a "9 My Poker Girl . “ + 150 Mysteries of Fashion, The | | gor Mythology up to Date... “yo-1 Naval Reserve. . . 2... . « OF Needle Woman, A 157 Nervous Man's Impressions of the Fair. . + 203 New Books: * 39, Tn 120, tsr, 165, 198, 215, 247, 279, 333, 363, 310. ec ww oe SOE New Group for the Chamber of Horrors, entitled ** The = Bieyele Rider”)... . eee. 138 News ofthe Day. . . . . . . 2Ut No Mercy Here 409 No Mosquitoes and No Flies. No. 554 NoNameforlt . . . . . Nota Bad Scheme . . . . N Nota Flatterer. . Title page N. Nota Man of Ideas. Title page b Ni Not Long for this World . . November Now, you understand me, I want no Kicking . . . 1... . . 186 OGRNE ce we te ee eo Off the Cob. : 231 Oh, do let me take my Nap in Peace. 261 Old Gent has lost his Glasses and is Looking for Them. . . No. 551 Old Tale Retold, An. 4i7 One of the Brackets under the Main Cornice. par . 44 One of the Smart Set” woe ee + 289 One of the Signs... . . . . 182 Oneonthe Dog ....... 22 One in Danger, The... One-sided Virtue, A. “Title page No. se CONTENTS. O50 USE PAGE. Only a Blind x . 2ur Opportunity Lost, An: + + + 328 Original Roof Tree Garden |) | 187 Our Compliments, Chicago . . 9 Our Cooking Class Tries Its Hand at the Thanksgiving Dinner. . 330 Out ona Racket . . - . OF Overheard at Dancing School’ > | 400 Overheard in Arcady: Richard Harding Davis . . . . 294 W. D. Howells oe ee 5 268 Henry James . 2. 278 Rudyard Kipling | 377 George Meredith . 330 Pacethat Kills... . . . . 10K Painful Thanksgiving, A... . 328 Pardonable Slang. . . . 151 Parker, W. E. . . . 61 Phillips, H. W., 28, soe ee 4 GOK Philosophy . » « EQE Pill and the Book of ‘Jokes, A 246 Play on Words. ; : 336 Poem of Every Day Life | | | | 315 Poker Terms: Flush . . ees 187 Going Better. 2... 187 GoingIn. 2 2 se LL 85 Making Good » . . . y+ 307 PatHand. . . . . 1 1. . 307 Shy . fool ll ff 307 Popular Play: As in a Looking Glass soe ees 10K Practical Knowledge. Title p. No. 567 Pressed for Time... . . . . 37 Prize Offering, A. 2. 2 1. 1 HAT Problem,A. . . . . 1. 5. 237 Proof Positive. . . . . . No. 571 Prophetic is 157 Pull with the Police, ‘AC “om 3st Punctilious Girl, A... . . . 106 Punctuality . . & = ee ae Putting an Endtoh. 2 1) 311 Puzzle: Find the Girl who is Going to be kissed within Ten Minutes . 364-5 Find the Nobleman . . 2 Find the Wife of the Man who is 80-1 Telling the Story. . . . . 296-7 Question of Some Importance + 102 Quest of the Impossible, The — 283 Quite Apparent . . . . . No. 551 Raising the Devil. 2. 2. 2 6... 135 Rather One Sided . er ee Ready Pupil, A. Title p. No. 561 Real Case of Grip, A. . . . . 10r Real Enthusiasm. . . . . . . 366 Realization . eee ww 6 106 Reasoning Mind, A . Title P. No. 568 Reformation, A. ~ . 268 Rehearsing for the Wedding. | Title page No. 563 Religion of Cash . . . OF Remarkably Intelligent Dog : 154 Requiescat in pace. . . 147 Result of a morning's work 198 Retrospective . . os 22 Return of the Conquered | +. 2005 Richards, F.T. . 163 Rivals | "Title’page No. 560 Rondel of Indifference, A... . 181 ReSeve Pots eee ee Running into Flesh | se 6 6 BQ Running Up a Big Bil) )t + 173 Rural Enterprise... . . . . 205 Safe Risk, A. 300 Scene From an Unpublished Drama No. $71 Search Light, The 2... . . amr September . 2. 2. 2 2 1... 213 Serenade, The. . . 2. . 93 vV.2e. PAGE, Shady Side of Thanksgiving Le 6 343 Shifted Cargo, A . . « oe TEE Simple Menu,A . . . . . sg? Sketches at the Fair : Along the Midway Plaisance . . 229 At the Austrian Cafe when the Band Play: Bos 88-9 Buffalo Bill, oe + $3 Lire finds ‘the "Foreign Beauties attractive, but oe ee 889 Old Hutch, &.. . Some Actors in the Midway Plai- sance . ae, aa 5 Some Electric ts . 04-5 Some Statuary now in Chicago, ke 220 Small, Frank O. ». » . 27-189 Some Impressions of Society Dur- ing Horse Show Week . . . 314 Song of the Wall Street Bear. . . 249 Sort of Thing that occasionally con- fronts You in the Country, &c. 77 SourMash . .... 2... . 140 Sporting Terms . . . . . . . 107 Steele, F. D. See ow a el Stitch in Time . 2 6. 2 1 5. 108 Suggestion, A . Title page No. 551 Sullivant, T. S. . 23, 38, 60, 261 Summer Girl's Heart |.) 259 Supersensitive. . . 2 2 0... 227 Tails of aGrandfather . 2... Taking a Little Fresh Heir... 108 TakingaSmile. . . . . . . . 140 Tale of Concussion - 8 Tale of the Sea. = 3) we 76 TaleofWoe,A . . . . . . . 230 Tempodi Bolero. . . . . . . 85 Tenacity of Life . . ee 1 Terrible Temptation, Rees: . 108 Test of Affection's a Tear . . No. 573 Thanksgiving Effort in the Early Days. ee ee + 3345 Thanksgiving Eve ; 325 These Young Girls W! ho Marry Old: ish Millionaires. . . >. 3804 They Say She Flirts . 2. . . . . 182 This isa Hard World | |) | 136-7 This is the Smoking Car, Madam, ete, . 4 This, Madam, is the Indestructible india Rubber Bucket, &c. . . 92 Thoroughly American Family, A. | 269 Those Familiar Names. . . Those Spinster Girls Remind Me ole Egg Thou Canst Not Say I Did It; Never shake Thy Gory Locks at Me . 329 Tied in the Last Heat . . » 359 Time Brings her Back . . . . , 221 TipinTime,A . . . . . . s gte ToAimee 2.) 2. |.) ! gz Toaspern . 125 To be Expected * 574 Tommy takes after his Pa, he has his Pa'sNose . . .). .. 183 Tony Pastors 2. 6 6s ww 6 947 Too Much . . + 263 Trials of the American Heiress. | Title page No. 555 Trials of the Middle Aged Beau. . 132 Trifle Under the Weather, A... 409 TryingitOn 2... ll eg Trying toCuta Swell | 106 Truth is Mighty but will not Prevail 45 Undertaker’s Friend, The. . . . 351 UptoDate. ... . 1... . 266 Vacation is Over. . 2... 216-7 Vacation Symphony,A. . . . . 183 Van, 56, 67, 139, 151, 165, 204, 249, 285, 301 . ee 8 4 4 8) SOR RTT. ry Blind . . $o% % & waOT ver Fly Scientist, AGS + + 409 comicbooks.com