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This page is primarily **advertising content** with no political cartoons or satire. The left column advertises **Arrow Brand Velsor collars** (2 for 25¢) by Cluett, Peabody & Co., makers. Below is a notice requesting subscribers to give one week's advance notice of address changes. The center features large advertisements for **insurance companies**: the Travelers of Hartford, Connecticut (offering life endowment and accident insurance) and the Bank of New Amsterdam in New York. The right side advertises **Pears' soap** (emphasizing gentle skin care) and **Arnold Constable & Co.** (laces and embroideries in New York). Bottom sections promote **Pennsylvania Railroad tours** to Mexico, California, and through California itself—popular leisure destinations for affluent readers of this era. This is a typical early 20th-century magazine page mixing editorial content with commercial advertisements.

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J Ee ee — — C.uETT.PEABopY & Co, MAKERS We earnestly request our subscribers to give us a full] week's notice of any intended change in their address. Notice of change should reach us by Thursday to affect the issue of the following week. Letters are forwarded with- out any trouble, but papers must be paid for a second time if they are to be forwarded. MEXICO AND CALIFORNIA Forty-six Days’ Tour via Penne sylvania Railroa: The Pennsylvania Rallroad personally-con- ducted tour to Mexico and California, which leaves New York and Philadeipbia on Febru: ary 12 (Pittaburg February 13) by special Pull- man train, covers alarge and Intensely Inter-| esting portion of North America. Mexico. | California and Colorado are a mighty trio tn all that appeals to and fascinates the tour- ist. Stops will be made at San Antonto, pico, Guanajuata, Guadalajara, Que City of Mexico (five days), Cuernavaca, Aguascalientes. Ios Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, San Jose (Mt. Hamilton), Del Monte, San Fran: cisco (Ove days), Salt Lake City, Colorado Springs, Denver, Chicago, and other points of interest. Fourteen days will be spent in Mezico, and nineteen in Callfornta. The" Mexiro and Callforota Special,” an exclusively Puliman train of Parlor Smoking, Dining, Drawing room Sleeping, and Obser vation cars, will be used over the entire route, Round-trip rate, including all necessary expenses during entire trip, $990 from all polnts on the Pennsylvania Railroad System east of Pittsburg; $515 from Pittsburg. For itinerary and full foformation apply toticket gents; Tourist Agent, 1193 Broadway, New York; 4 Court Street, Brooklyn; 789 Broad Street, Newark, N, J.; B. Courlaender, Jr. Passenger Agent Baltimore District, Balt more, Md.; Colin Stadds, Passenger Agent Southeastern District, Washineton, D. C.; Thos. E. Watt, Passenger Agent Western District, Pittsburg, Pa.; or address Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agent, | Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. THE BANK OF NEW AMSTERDAM Broadway end 30th St., N. Y. Branch: ‘Third Ave. and 47th St. CAPITAL, $250,000, SURPLUS AND PROFITS, $400,000, Invites Business, Family, Personal, and Out-of-Town Accounts, FRANK TILFORD, President. R. R. MOORE, Vice-President. G. J, BAUMAN, Cashier. Directors: Sam'l D. Babcock, Richard A. McCurdy, Jno 8. Barnes, KV. Lewis, Frederic Cromwell, Ino. L. Riker, Frank Curtiss, a Root, ‘Thos. Denny, R. M. Gallaway, Kobert Goelet, G.G. Haven, Al. Hayman, A.D. Julliard, ys. ¥. Ryan, Ino, A. Stewart, Louis Stern, J, Edward Simmons, FD. Travelers of Hartford, Conn. OLDEST, LARGEST and BEST Life Endowment ad Accident Insurance OF ALL FORMS Health Policies Indemnity for Disability caused by Sickness, Liability Insurance Manufacturers and Mechanics, Contractors, and Owners of Buildings, Horses, and Vehicles can all be protected by policies in THE TRAVEL! SGRANCE COMPANY. Paid-up Cash Capital $1,000,000.00 Assets 26,499,822.74 Liabilities - - - 22,708,701.82 Excess, 33% basis 3,791,120.92 GAINS: 6 Months, January to July, 1899. In Assets + + + = = «= $1,184,380.28 Increase in Reserves (noth dept’s) 1,478,549.62 Premiums, Interest and Rents, 6 Months, 3,782,423.85 J. G. BATTERSON, President. S.C. DUNHAN, Vice-President. JOHN E. MORRIS, Secretary. H. J. MESSENGER, Actuary. E. V. PRESTON, Sup’t of Agencies. COPYRIGHT FOR GREAT BRITAIN BY JAMES HENOERSON UNDER THE ACT OF 1801. Pears To keep the skin cleg is tc wash the excretio from it off; the skin tak care of itself inside, if nj blocked outside. To wash it often ay clean, without doing am | sort of violence te it, fe | Guires a most gentle soy a soap with no free z kali in it. Pears’, the clears but not excoriate soap tl Alt sorts of stores sell it, especud, druggists; all sorts of peopie use it ect, | | Laces and Embroideris | Embroidered Batiste Draperies, Nainsook and Swiss Hambut | Trimmings. Embroidered Allover Bands and Edgings to Match, Reveres, Plaits, Tucks. | Embroidered Flouaces, Robes Rich Laces. ig ot , NEW YORK. CALIFORNIA. Thirty-one Days’ Tour Pennsylvania Railroad. Tho Pennsylvania Railroad Company tate | ranged for a special personally-conducted! through California, to leave New York of] Philadelphia on February 27, by specta! Pil) man drawing-room sleeping car and corer) | tng at El Paso with the “Mexico and Califa composed exclusively of Pulls smoking, dining, drawing room se ing, compartment, and observation cars !]) tour through Calfornia.returning by March) Round-trip tickets, covering all necessary} | Denses, $375 from all points on Pennsylra Ratiroad. For further information apply to ticket age Tourist Agent, 1196 Broadway, New York Court Street, Brooklyn ; 789 Broad Street, Se ark, N. J.; B. Courlaender, Jr, Passet Agent Baltimore District, Baltimore, M4. Studds, Passenger Agent Southeastern Die Washington, D. G.; Thos. E. Watt, i. Agent Western District, Pittaburg, Pas dress Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Passes Agent, Philadelphia. comicbooks.com