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This page is primarily **advertisements interspersed with three short humorous anecdotes**, not political cartoons. The advertisements promote consumer products: smokeless powders for target shooting, Whitman's chocolates, a telephone service, sugar, cigars, and tabasco sauce. The three text pieces ("Fair Play," an anecdote about William Osler's medical wit, and a story about a Canadian farmer) are genteel humor typical of early 20th-century Life magazine—they rely on wordplay, rural/provincial characters, and clever observations rather than satire or caricature. There is **no political commentary or identifiable caricatured figures** on this page. It represents Life's mixed editorial-advertising format and its focus on genteel, domesticated humor aimed at educated middle-class readers.

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Fair Play. GROUP of drummers were trading yarns A on the subject of hospitality, when one, tle Virginian with a humorous eye and a lightful drawl, took up his parable thus. as down in Louisiana last month tray- i’ cross country with S. J. Carey (the same leing Stonewall Jackson C. at your service) | oa I nr we kinder got lost in a mighty lonesome | al . sf road just about dark. We rode along TARGET SHOOTING good piece after sundown, and when IS CONTINUALLY GROWING IN FAVOR. © saw a light ahead, tell you it looked first- We drove up to the light, findin’ 'twas IT MAKES CLEAR EYES AND STEADY NERVES. vase, and when I hollered like a lost calf nan came out and we asked him to take “E. C." OR SCHULTZE SMOKELESS POWDERS LOADED 1 for the night. He looked at ‘us mighty | IN YOUR SHELLS WILL ALWAYS 1, then said, ‘Wall, I reckon I kin stand it nt kin’ So we unhitched, went in, and GIVE SATISFACTION. twas only a two-room shanty and just rnin’ with children. He had six, from Laflin & Rand Powder Company to eleven years old, and as there didn’t New York City to be but one bed, me an’ Stony was _ iderin’ what in thunder would become of us, hey gave us supper, good hog and hom- » best they had, and then the old woman « two youngest kids to bed. ‘They went Have You a t to sleep. Then she took those out, Z J ager abeaeeney, utheext Telephone? and so on. Aiter all the children were Chocolates. If not, you incon- cp on the floor, the old folks went in the , and Confections venience hoth your r room and told us we could go to bed if 7 k business and per- nted to, and, bein’ powerful tired out, purty nnd goodness sonal friends who resicnnornioas wish to communi- sir, the next morning when we woke STEPHEN F. WHITMAN & SON, cate with you. Evtadtiaded 1802, New York Telephone Co. k san U the sania pee ee woman had Y yyyjyyYywy, 15 Dey Street. up we were lying over in the corner with the Yj 1316 Chestnut Street, Phila. t old cure for gout: “First, pick a icf irom the pocket of a spinster who ver wished to wed; second, wash the hand- f in an honest miller's pond; third, dry nthe hedge of a person who never was 1s; fourth, send it to the shop of a an who never killed a patient; fifth, it with a lawyer's ink who never cheated a $ t, and, sixth, apply it, hot, to the gout q Segar_Co u » ted part. A speedy cure must follow.”— Werk Eaitiine ‘Let those smoke now Who never smoked before, CANADIAN farmer, noted for his absent- And those who always smoked mindedness, went to town one day and Daw amenke the mars,” sacted his business with the utmost pre- 1 He started back on his way home, ver, with the firm conviction that he had 4 tten something—what it was he could not ASNtIE, try how he would. As he neared home } 2 q onviction increased, and three times he ie This Pevtect’HaVatia,” ved his horse and went carefully through . vocketbook in a vain endeavor to discover Panetelas Crande (M4 Exqulste) had forgotten. In due course he} ne, and was met by his daughter, §0c. each ‘ Fong : 4.25 for Adds tastiness to food, encourages the appetite. dat him in surprise, and exclaimed, S$ ‘or 50 Adds tastionne te food, encouregee theurertite ther, where have you left mother? se Otiiee cnallbasaaeee the original, in use half a century. A stimulati: 1 Facette. seasoning for Soups, Sa , Salads, Gravies, Vall Gazette, WeldorfAstorin NOS . Oysters, Clams, Fish, Roasts, ete. Siesta ee Booklet of Recipes on request. NICKNAME after forty is a proof cf 2s", Se ear! McILHENNY’S TABASCO. New Iberia, Louisiana. character.——Home and Abroad, e comicbooks.com