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This page consists primarily of **advertisements** for railroad services (Santa Fe, Lake Shore Limited) and toiletries (Murray & Lanman's Florida Water), interspersed with brief humorous anecdotes. The satirical content is minimal. The small jokes in the right column appear to mock: 1. **"A False Alarm"**: A Florida native's superstitious fear that turns out to be a harmless rattlesnake—poking fun at rural credulity and overreaction. 2. **"To South Dakota"**: A play on Horace Greeley's famous "Go West" advice, updated to suggest married men should go west to escape their wives—a common domestic-relations joke of the era. 3. **"A Passing Acquaintance"** and **"Farmer Hornihand"**: Brief wordplay jokes about constitutional ignorance and women's extravagant spending. The page's primary purpose is **commercial**, advertising rail travel and consumer goods to upper-middle-class readers. The humor serves as filler between ads rather than as serious satire.

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A DAILY THANKSGIVING is the sense of grateful satisfaction felt when “gente, ANMANS FLORIDA Wate ‘ Without Exception Murray & b> > TneBest Toilet Gi Ever Fragrant, * J ( Refreshing and (yy i Delightful ; Men of business prefer The Californi a ifornia Limi imited The train “ wears well’; mainly because the service is faultlessly good every mile and every minute. Santa Fe All the Way--that's the reason. Daily service will be resumed November 13, superseding present semi-weekly schedule, Chicago to Los Angeles and ‘Frisco. For pamphlet of the train, and California trip book, address Gen, Pass. Otfice, A. T. & S, Fe Ry Chicago A False Alarm. A GENTLEMAN from Buffalo tells 3 story of the conversation he had with; native of Southern Florida whom he hited y row him several miles down the Miami Rive After many futile endeavors to interest native and entrap him into expression of opis ion, the Northerner brought up the subject ¢ the supernatural. : “Don't believe in it,” said the native, decd edly, “though I will say I most did at on| time. I thought I was visited by spirits onc I was in my cabin one night, when I woke g and heard something a-slipping and a-slidisd across the boards. I listened and then I a yell. The noise still kept up kind of cree and scary. I knew it wasn’t any ordinary eri ter, so I says, ‘I don’t care whether you b human or a spirit, do something so as I cj know definite.” I hated to have it so uns: tled, but I was sorry I said anything. Just soon as I opened my mouth there came a ra} tling noise like bones cracking together, “You were scared. I suppose it was a at, said the Northerner. “T was scared—most blue—but it wa's't q cat. I began to believe in spirits! I hada heap of faith in ‘em just then, and I let oct a yell you could hear a mile. Then I jump clean out of bed and acrogs the room.” . “What happened then? What was it?" “Why, I lit a match and found out I m: scared and all nerved up for nothing, and J haven't believed in spirits since. I was t ble ashamed of myself when I found out wty it was. The thing wa’n't nothing but ju big, common, mean, sneaky rattles: Youth's Companion. To South Dakota. ROFESSOR: Time brings great changes For instance, Horace Greeley sii “Young man, go West.” Now, what do 57 suppose Greeley would say under present cc ditions ? Miss Cutcaco: Married man, go West! | Houston Chronicle. A Passing Acquaintance. EDDY’S knowledge of the Constitutics like that of the boy who was asked if} had ever gone through algebra. He repli! | “Yes, but it was in the night-time, and I dics | see much of it!"—Macon Telegraph. ‘ARMER HORNIHAND: I notust paper that a woman at Chicago tells be t’ dress on twenty-five thousand dollars 87% Mrs. Hornitann : Law sakes! What any woman want with twenty-five those! calico wrappers in one year!—Baltix’ American, 73 LAKE SHORE LIMITED 99, Leaves New York 5.30 every afternoon via NEW YORK CENTRA * Arrives Chicago 4.00 next afternoon via LAKE SHORE. comicbooks.com