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This page is primarily **advertising and commercial content** rather than political satire. The main elements are: 1. **White Rock mineral water ad** - emphasizes "absolute purity," a key selling point for beverages in this era when water safety was a genuine concern. 2. **Stuyler's Cocoa ad** - standard product endorsement. 3. **Makaroff Russian Cigarettes ad** - appeals to smokers by claiming the tobacco doesn't contact the mouth, reducing "dopey" feelings and odor. 4. **"Watching the Market"** - a brief humorous domestic anecdote about a boy trading bananas, unrelated to financial markets despite the title. 5. **Various other ads** for hair goods, gout pills, and mail-order cigars. The page reflects early 20th-century consumer culture and health anxieties rather than political commentary.

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Ice has never cooled a beverage so deliciously refreshing and healthful in its absolute purity as hite Hock the one effervescent mineral water combining every essential of perfec- tion. The ideal summer drink which imparts the final touch of refinement to any social event. | train of thought had a Ustke Great English Remedy BLAIR’S PILLS§ Sate, Berke Chotce Imported Ornaments . ANDRE “ALWAYS THE BEST.” 9 COCOA AS PURE AS CAN BE MADE. YOUR GROCER SELLS IT. TAKE NO OTHER. Watching the Market. evident that some persons are born for a business career. monstrat- ases in very early life. The other day Mrs, Cobb saw her ten-year-old son Ed- ward going out the gate with a neighbor's boy “Where are you going?” she called from the This is ¢ ed in some window. “We're going down nat the to have our pictures wered her boy, EC ng what que akened this vain desire when suddenly she heard once more the click of the gate. Looking out, Edward ing in alone, munching a banana. Was it too cloudy to have the tintype n?” she asked. No. ma’am. What was the matter?” “Well,” said Edward, “Tommy had _ his taken, but I didn’t, I found out that bananas had dropped to three for ten cents. So bought ‘em. You never can tell the price of bananas, but tintypes is always the same. Vouth’s Companion. she saw ELLO, old man—glad to see you back. How did you enjoy your vacation ?"* Had a up to the last few da ran short of » when 1 Graphic. E. RIDDLE, of the Kansas City Engineer- © ing Company, used to live in Minne and was talking the other day about the Twin City feud. Minneapolis and St. Paul hate each other. Incredible to all Minnesotans is the mu- tual aversion that smoulders in these fair cit- ies’ hearts. This aversion er lessens, creased, “A St. Paul man was invited to Minne polis to make a speech. It was hoped that in his speech he would say pleasant things of Minne- apolis, It was hoped that his speech would, maybe, bridge the breach between the two towns. “But, alas, this is the way the St. Paul man’s speech began: the contrary, it is being daily On| You can smoke MAKAROFF RUSSIAN CIGARETS from morning until night without a trace of that “dopey” or nervous feeling induced by other cigarets. They will leave in your office or apartments no trace of the odor usually associ- ated with cigarets. They are made of real tobacco, pure, clean and sweet, and nothing else. They are mild and smooth, but rich in natural flavor, and as full of “body” as the most critical connoisseur could wish, ‘They contain a less percentage of nicotine than any others and the mouthpiece takes up most of that. ‘The tobacco never comes in contact with the mouth, therefore does not become wet and bitter, to spoil the flavor and stain the fingers. They are rolled by hand, and incased in the thinnest paper in the worki. No paste is used, You can afford to go into this matter thor y. You cannot afford not to, if you want to enjoy Sat their best, without injury to your health or offense to your own sense of refinement or that of your friends. I sell direct to smokers, first-class clubs and hotels. I will gladly send full information about these cigarets, but the final and only test, if you are in earnest, isa trial of the goods, I takeall the risk of this trial, so there is no reason why you should delay it. A New Kind of Offer Send me your order fora trial hundred of the size and quality you prefer. Try the cigarets thoroughly, smoke the fuil hundred if youlike, ‘Then, if you do not like them, tell me and I will return your money. I do not ask the return of the cigarets. I prefer to take my chances of your giving them to some one who willlike them and who will order more, Send an order now and get acquainted with real cigaret luxury. --MAIL THIS COUPON Ti JAMES HOWARD KEHLER 0 Fine Arts Building, CHICAGO SOLE OISTAIOUTOR IN AMERICA FOR Patong Hist Senge Warsaw New York Chicago for which please! send me, prepaid, LADIES’ HAIRDRESSER 13 West 29th St., N.Y. City Specialist hair coloring, Marcel waving, shampooing, manicuring, electric facial aang. “When a man from Minneapolis does a| good deed, his townsmen erect a monument in his honor. There are no monuments in| | Minneapolis.’”"—The Independent. comicbooks.com