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This page contains **two distinct items**: an article about animal welfare and a musical instrument advertisement. **Left column**: "Save the Poor Dogs" describes the Naples Society for Animal Protection's effort to build a shelter for stray dogs. The society requested municipal funding (£700) and private donations. This reflects early 20th-century animal welfare advocacy. **Right side**: A full-page advertisement for "Angelus" music players—mechanical devices that taught children classical music by playing pre-recorded cylinders. The ad shows a family gathered around the device and claims children instinctively love music. It's manufactured by Wilcox & White Co. of Meriden, Connecticut (established 1876). **Bottom**: A small advertisement for "Confey Prints"—portrait prints marketed as home décor. This is primarily an **advertising page** rather than satirical content.

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Far Away, but a Good Cause. HIE enclosed notice reaches us in our copy T he London Zoophilist: Save tHE Poor Docs. The Naples Society for the Protection of Ani offered some time ago to under- take stray dogs seized by the po- 1 the painless destruction of those neliswed, provided the municipality of Naples BS” ins) hali the cost of building the 1 paid 3d. per day towards the ms ach dog, ta Veterinary College has now outbid the! Society by offering to provide the building his means that nearly all the dogs sill he viviseeted, as in Naly there is no re- ar 11 vivisection, and all medical stu- Gents make experiments on living animals withont using anesthetics, To save them from this terrible fate the Society must build the ntirely at its own expense. For this is in hand are quite inadequate; £700] H Qu ity vill he needed, of which £300 have been Oo WV uic ranteed. WILL) YOU HELP? Cc nd cy given for this purpose will be hildren . Learn ret dif the scheme is not carried out Contributions will be gratefully received and pily acknowledged by Miss P. H. John- von, The Reeches, Carlisle, and Mr, Leonard Good Music Hawksley, 2, Via Vittori aples. Italy ees the Ww" !EN Wall Street frst caught the fever wr “industrial combinations” and began zation of everyth hit, one taries of high finance found himself Chicago in extreme need of communicating ith his New York office Children love music instinctively He had almost completed an arrangement for We know one little girl nine years old who asks for Liszt's Rhapsodie No. 12 and iherite Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. Six months ago she only wanted marches and cake-walks. alll B The Angelus has given her this education. Music means so much to her that now she wants to study music and learn to make her fingers do what The Angelus fingers do for her father and mother. This is one absolutely true instance selected from many similar ones. A child who learns to know fine music at an early age has stored up capacity for enjoyment which is priceless rolidation of several Western enter- ton order get the final au ed from New York, he nvast exp © hl done by wire to his partners was no time to write. He had no ule, For a Ic time he tried to think way to send the information se that n (0 his partners and meaning- Don’t you NEED an Angelus in your home? iy one © ce. His seeret was a valuable (free) handsome booklet and the name of the nearest agent. Purchased nt he sold | by Royalty and the world’s greatest musicians. ub once sent over the wire m vals in Wall Street for a large sum.) THE WILCOX @ WHITE CO. \ st he decided to take the chances in ». Accordingly he wrote the mes- Established 1876 Meriden, Conn. Khe Copley Prints are admirable for gifts, or the adornment of one’s own walls, Recognized by artists as the best art reproductions made in America, *"Excellent,"’ writes John S- Sargent) “*I could not wish bettered.’? says Edwin A. Abbey. Filty cents to an00. At art stores, oF sent on approval. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE (200 illustrations) sent upon receipt of 25 cents tin, stamps) which may be deducted from any parchase of the Prints themselves. CURTIS & CAMERON, Pestisnexs, 22, Pierce Building, Opp. Boston Pablic Library, BUSTON, Half an hour later, when the assistant came ch he asked him if he had sent it Nov just that way." said the clerk, “I wrote it, the first word on a Postal blank, . cond on a Western Union, and so on. 1 ch company, and neither half thing. Then T sent a second mes- R ating words.’ ze ly one fine, sayir ad both messages together, altert scheme was too simple for the high Snancier to have evol but it worked per- fects —Brooklyn Eagle. comicbooks.com