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This page is primarily **advertisements** for automobiles and portable houses, with a brief editorial section titled "From Our Readers." The "From Our Readers" column discusses **New York politics**, specifically responding to a Massachusetts reader's letter about a "crook and cutthroat" New Yorker. The editorial defends New York's character while critiquing its reputation for corruption and materialism. It then pivots to endorsing **Bok** (likely Edward Bok, a prominent editor) for the Presidency, praising his opposition to protectionist tariffs and support for dress-reform—positions Life considers enlightened. The ads feature the Columbia Tonneau automobile, M&M Portable Houses, and Dunlop Hartford Tires—typical early 1900s advertisements with no satirical content visible.

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12-14 HORSE POWER Self-lubrica ing, two-cylinder opposed motor ive.’ Driv All-metal clutch ru in oil Easiest asolene cars to opera! 20:95 H.-P, TOURING CAR. fost powerful and efficient car of its weight, 24-30 H. P. TOURING CAR The car that holds the Chicag NEW MODEL ELECTRIC RUNABOUT “ELBERON" ELECTRIC VICTORIA nits fourth success! Car Catalogue te NEW YORK: 134-138 We M @ M PORTABLE HOUSES Summer Cottages nf Canopy-top, L Ww York record and most efficient Vehicle in its class. Evectric VEHICLE Co est 39th St. CHICAGO: 1413 Michigan Av bonnet. Cylinders gx Canopy-top or Limousine E fn most cars of twice the weight, levers without notches or ine Or Surrey B tlognes of © Town Hartrorp Conn BOSTON: 74 Stanhope St. Ihre. Childre: Play Houses Hunters’ Cabins Automobile Houses | Photograph Galleries, Etc. tk Anyone can erect WE PAY THE PREIGH Write today for catalorve, Te you want and we will give you a Brice at once, MERSHON & MORLEY COMPANY, 900 Broadicay, SAGINAW, MICH. LOPS DETACHABLE To take the new * Dunlog off the rim (the pew rim) loosen one screw only—and off it comes. And the rim be fitted to a wood wheel wheelmaker has only to deal with flat surfaces, Let us send you description, ade under the G. & J, patents (and there- fore of a construction long Since past. the experimental stage), with greatly improved features, affording its user the minimum of trouble, maximum of safety, and long honest service. THE. HARTFORD RUBBER WORKS GO, HARTFORD, CONN.ULS.A. ECENTLY there appeared in Lire a par. graph on that great State, Massachusett: A Massachusetts man felt called upon to say something in reply, upon New York, and we have extracted from his letter the following paragraphs . New York rises in Ellis Island, flows thence in northerly direction through Blackwell's Island and Sing Sing, and empties itself in Albany Statehouse, New York is the only State in the Union where a man can be a crook and cut-throat and still retain the respect of everyone. New York is noted for Rum, Romanism and Re- bellion, for the Tammany Tiger, the Shipbuilding Trust and Boss Tweed, It seceded from Mayor Van Wyck some years ago, lifted up its head and resolved to get into good society, and so elected Mayor Low. But “the atmosphere was strange, the new associates were uncongenial, so she dropped down to McClellan, and feels at home again, New York has for its trade mark the New York face, known all over the world— once seen is never forgotten, A man with a New York face is welcome wherever there is a gambling hole, a dance hall, a policy game,a hold-up game, a boodle game or a prize fight. Wall Street is the only state of mind that New York has, It is divided into two parts—Morgan and his lambs. When you are born in New York, Dr. Morgan calls, spots you for a sucker, lays for you during your | minority, and when your wool is grown, shears you to the skin, but as a blanket for your shivering form leaves you a hundred thousand shares of worthless stock, Out of it you are supposed to make a robe to cover your nakedness, after which you are fully equipped to enter the sheep-fold in Wall Street and worship at the Morgan shrine, where wood pulp 1s daily manvfactured into parchment, on which is writ the 1. O, U's, that will never be redeemed, Out here in the provinces, those of D nour faith in the ancient principles of the Democratic Part y are not quite easy in our minds, We are not near enough distinctly to hear Judge Parker's frequent expositions of his views upon the questions of the day, Mr. Cleveland neglects to answer our letters, and Mr, Hearst seems to be making progress, Although we see by the New York Evening Journal that the attacks upon Mr, Hearst's private and public characier are wholly unwarranted, we cannot persuade ourselves to favor his nomination for the Presidency. While recent and current events have mollified our previously held opinion of the yellow races, we still prefer a white man for this exalted office. In our anxious patriotism and patriotic anxiety, we have decided to appeal to you, Lire, urging you to throw the weight of your influence to a man, the mere mention of whose name should make the task of secur- ing his nomination an easy and a lightsome thing. | That name is Bok-E. Bok. Pure asa lily, shrinking as a violet, Bok is our ideal of American manhood, ‘Thoroughly alive to the vital issues of the times, broad in his views, fearless in his expression of them, gentle in his strength, Bok is our man, Of Mr. Bok’s Democracy there can be no doubt. We have positive information that he considers the Dingley Tariff schedules on dress goods real mean—he is a revisionist. He is unalterably opposed to Imperialism— no country where the girls dress as they do in the Philippine Islands would have a place under the Stars and Stripes, if Bok had his modest way about it, From | an unimpeachable source, we learn that Mr. Bok prints comicbooks.com