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# Analysis This page is **primarily advertising**, not satirical content. It contains four commercial advertisements: 1. **Whiting Manufacturing Co.** - A silversmith advertising solid silver tableware, featuring an ornate "Larchmont Cup" from 1895. 2. **Anheuser-Busch's Malt Nutrine** - A tonic marketed to parents wanting healthy, strong children. The ad includes a photograph of children and nursing mothers, emphasizing nutritional benefits. 3. **Hilton, Hughes & Co.** - A department store advertising seasonal clearance sales on blankets and carpets at reduced prices. 4. **Various small notices** about sewing machines and household goods. There is no political cartoon or satirical content visible. This represents typical **fin-de-siècle American advertising** in a humor magazine, targeting middle-class consumers with luxury goods and health products.

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Designed and Made by Whiting M'f'g Co. “Larcusont Cur” 1895. Solid Silver (Exclusively.) Loew STERLING WuitTinc M’re Co. Silversmiths, Broadway & 18th St., NEW_YORK. RECENT DEVELOFSIENTS CONCERNING STERLING SEKVE TO EMPNASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF OBSERVING TRADE-MARK, We axe Soup Sitver onty, OF STERLING QUALITY *A¥e FINE, RVERY ARTICLE BEARING OUR TRADE-MARK: TWEREVORE PURCHASERS SECURE ENTIRE FREEDOM PROM FALSE IMPRESSIONS. ARTICLES STAMPED He Rollicking Childhood. It is surely your dearest wish to see your children strong and happy with sparkling eyes and lively, sturdy limbs. ANHEUSER-BUscy,, Kilts is the ideal tonic for growing chil- dren. They will like the taste of it and it will nourish and invigorate them. Especially _ helpful to nursing mothers, 70 BE HAD AT ALL DRUGGISTS* and GROCERS". ‘ ¥ Prepared by ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWING ASS’N, St. Louis, U. S. A. Send for handsomely illustrated colored booklets and other reading matter, SPECIAL NOTICE. The Supreme Court of Washington, D. C., has awarded to the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass'n the disputed Highest Score of award with Medal and Diploma of the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. corrment 7 BROADWAY 9 PE IOWS POURTH AVE. ‘Succtssons TOAT. Stewart & Co, Summer Prices are Frost-Bitten ahead of frost time. And there are great lots of Fall and Winter things that have come here as snow drifts in at a half- opened door—to be quickly swept out and not to count in the sleighing. In this between-seasons wise housekeepers can pick up almost anything needed for furnishing or outfitting, and save maybe half of the usual purchase money. IF BLANKETS GREW fon bushes they'd be cheaper than these, no doubt. But they wouldn't be half as good. Nothing mean, nothing scrimped about them, We know the qualities and the exact. sizes and weights—and we tell you, Half a dozen sample prices: $1.50 Blankets at $1.00 pair $3.00 Blankets at 2.50 pair $4.00 Blankets at 3.00 pair $6.50 Blankets at $7.50 Blankets at $9.00 Blankets at 8 and Scarlet Blankets, all wool, big, generous —70x82 in.—are $4.50. Of course it’s sur- prising; so is the whole Blanket sale. MORE CARPET WONDER. | All the town knows the grand business we've been doing in Carpets since July began. | Here's another step ahead. Bigeiow Axminsters, best at that, Quality ascertain as the gold ina double eagle. $1.75 and $2 are close retail prices; we say $1.25. You couldn't buy them today of the maker in| 100 piece lots for so little, GUAT SaTAN BY GaetD RIRSURIOS UNDER Tee ACT OF 004, Wiltons, very best quality, 5 and 6 frame the $2.50 and $2.75 grades in thrifty stores, we say $1.50. These Carpets are all in new patterns ant are mostly with borders to match, No matter how fine the carpeting you have to do you cat be satisfied from these lots. THIRD FLOOR. FOUR HASSOCKS FOR $1. Fine Body Brussel Hassocks, 30¢. each. NO SEWING MACHINE that we know of is so good for the money 3 the Stewart. First class in every way ; hig? arm, large bed, lock stitch, and all the featars that sewing machine people boast of, If sl in the usual way, with agent's commission ap¢ the like, the price would be $55 or $éo, Wec# off all these extravagances and say $18.75 Even more remarkable, perhaps, is tht $12.75 machine. Light running, up to date three drawers, nicely finished in oak, uit anteed for five years, Ccomicbooks.com