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This page is primarily **advertising content** for the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon, celebrating the centennial of the famous exploration expedition. The large illustration shows a figure overlooking a panoramic landscape with mountains and settlements. The advertisement emphasizes tourism opportunities: Pullman train travel through varied terrain (prairies, mountains, Yellowstone Park) to reach Portland and the exposition. Travel agents are listed for booking. The right column contains unrelated brief articles about convention fundraising ("A Bad Break"), railroad accident reporting procedures ("Specifications"), and regional attitudes ("East and West")—typical filler content for the era. The bottom advertises the Hippodrome theater in New York and various athletic goods companies. This is a standard mixed-content magazine page blending ads with editorial material.

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and the ‘Lewis Clark. They would be astonished, those - men whose names are honored in this Centennial, if they could see what their . explorations have made possible to the 4°3 Nation—the fair cities and mighty com- %1 merce of the Pacific slope. See what a varied panorama the trip sets before you—first come mighty cities, with trim farms and picturesque land- poo interspersed. Here are the rolling prairies with incom- prehensible distances and the crops that feed Nations. Here are the mountains, green and rocky and snow-capped all summer— hundreds of miles of mountains, thousands of feet high. We may also pay a visit to that wonder of Nature, the Yellowstone Park, and then come the sunny, fruit laden slopes of the Pacific—and Portland with its beautiful Centennial, set in sublime scenery. Did ever Exposition offer an approach like this ? Let us help you plan your trip,—so that you will miss nothing. The Wabash will start you right. Luxuriant through Pullmans, New York, Boston, Pittsburg and a hundred other Eastern cities to Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and Omaha. Good connections with a choice of attractive far Western Routes. A line to any of the undersigned will bring painstaking, reliable informa- tion to your door. H. B. McCretran, Gen. Eastern Agent, 387 Broadway, New York. J.D. McReatn, New England Pass. Agent, 176 Washington St., Bosto:. R. F. KELLey, Gen. Agent Pass. Dept., 287 Main St., Buffalo. F. H. Tristram, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent, 320 Fifth Ave., Pittsburg. C.S. CRANE, G. P.& T. A., Wabash System, St. Louis. NATIONAL THEATRE REALIZED NEW YORK HIPPODROME Management THOMPSON & DUNDY. BLOCK SIXTH AVE., 43D TO 44TH ST. A Marvelous Show in the World's Greatest Playhouse. Have you laughed at Marceline? 10,000 people daily applaud the Hippodrome’s 1,000 performers, SEND THE YOUNG FOLKS! MATINEES DAILY. }a'l Orders Recetve The Man Who Cares for what is best, and yet cares not to pay too much, buys A.J. & Co. Athletic Goods We are headquarters for everything pertaining to athletics of the better sort, ARTHUR JOHNSON & CO. Frompt Attention, ATHLETIC OUTFITTERS 55 W. 424 St,, N.Y. A Bad Break. URING the annual convention of a cei religious body, not so very long ago, 4 incident occurred which was not on the py gramme and which completely upset the g: ity of the ministers and brethren assemblq It was at the c'osing session, and the chairm stated that they were about one hundred dq lars short of an amount desired to be rai for a given purpose, and hoped that the sy could be made up before final adjournme One of the laymen jumped up with the mark: “I'll start the good work with twenty-f dollars.” H “I don’t know your name, brother,” said chairman, “but may God bless you, and ng your business be doubled during the year,” Much to his astonishment, a burst of laug ter followed from many in the hall, which ¥ explained when a brother up in front step to the platform and whispered: “Why, that’s Mr. Blank, a prominent uné taker of the town.”—June Lippincott’s, Specifications. HEN an animal is killed on the raily it is the duty of the nearest stati master to immediately make a report of accident to headquarters, so that the comp may be prepared with a statement of the facts] ‘case of action. This report is made on special prepared forms, furnished by the company. § one occasion, a newly installed station- found himself confronted with the necessity making out his first report. Although it a new experience, he described the cow the circumstances accurately, and all went ¥ down to the last line, when he discovered t he had neglected to question the owner of deceased cow concerning one important poy It seemed safe, however, for him to rely u his own judgment, and he did it. The was headed “Disposition of Carcass.” Undq neath he wrote, with all earnestness: “Keg and gentle.”—The Argonaut. ERFECTION in the art of shotgun manufacturd found in the Hunter One-trigger on the Seq Hammerless. Truly a wonderful invention. No Sf tional surface, consequently no balking with the ond barrel—a fact that every experienced spot will appreciate. Send for illustrated catalo Hunter Arms Co., Fulton, N.Y. East and West. ES, I’ve just returned from a two mor visit in the East,” the Portland yo lady was saying; “and, oh, I had such a lo time! Those Easterners are so different us, though.” “What points did you visit?” inquired § newcomer’ in Oregon. “I do hope you # dear old Boston.” “Boston!” the Portland girl ejaculat! should say not. I was in Montana,”— land Oregonian, comicbooks.com