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This page contains **primarily advertisements and humorous anecdotes** rather than political cartoons. The top features a **moose illustration advertising Laflin & Rand smokeless powder**—a straightforward product advertisement emphasizing the ammunition's effectiveness for hunting. The main content includes three **humorous short stories**: 1. "A Good Advertiser" praises a London man who secured employment by writing an unusually honest (self-deprecating) job advertisement that stood out through its novelty and candor. 2. A Cambridge anecdote mocks a Trinity College master and a disreputable character named Jemmy Gordon through a joke about mistaken identity. 3. "Les Miserables" offers a brief quip about Victor Hugo's novel's popularity. The **Overland Limited railway advertisement** dominates the lower left, promoting luxury transcontinental travel to the Pacific Coast. There is **no political satire or commentary** on this page—it represents typical early 20th-century Life magazine content mixing commercial advertisements with light social humor and wit.

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ACQUIRING ANTLERS IS EASY WHEN SHOOTING LAFLIN & RAND SMOKELESS POWDER. “LIGHTNING” FOR HIGH POWER RIFLES. “SHARPSHOOTER™ FOR BLACK POWDER RIFLES. Lafin & Rand Powder Company New York City OR exclusively first class travel, between Chicago and the Pacific t, the Overland Limited. IS WITHOUT AN "Through electric lighted tr the Coast every day in the year. A Direct connie aii, ustralia and the Og New Route tf Salt Lake City Excellent service, and the newly ope Excelent service _ fast ‘schedules and Drawing rooms + unusually large jffz rooms for ladies. § in each section andi library and’ ‘ibrary) & posite “buffet-smoking, observation cars. (Booklover’s Superb dining car service. THE BEST OF EVERYTHING Aut Acenrs Seu Tickers via Cnicaco. UNION Paciric ano Nortn-Western Linc. W. B. KNISKERN, P. 7. t., C. @N.9W. RY, CHICAGO, TLL A Good Advertiser. A MAN in London wanted a job, and so he published the following advertise- ment: “A hopelessly incompetent fool, with no qualifications, social or intellectual, totally de- void of knowledge on any conceivable subject, thoroughly indolent and untrustworthy, is de- sirous of obtaining a remunerative post in any capacity. Address I. F., 3 Maclise road, West Kensington.”” The singularity of it attracted a great deal of attention, and several people set out to look the individual up. When they found him, they discovered he was a man of 27 years, alert, intelligent, with an ordinary public school education he result is that he has secured ‘a good position with a responsible firm and he [bids fair to rise in the world, all the result of advertising and of writing an ad so that it would attract attention because it was different from any other application for work that was ever written. The moral, therefore, of this tale, is that if you would succeed by advertis- ing, write so that the notice would attract you if you were in search of help.—Muncie Star FAMOUS master of Trinity College. Cambridge, had been a friend in earlier jdays of one Jemmy Gordon, a solicitor. But ]Jemmy went to the bad, was struck on the [rolls and lived from what he could get from | old acquaintances. One day he met the master and asked for a shilling. “Gordon,” thundered the master, “if you could show me a greater scoundrel than your- self I would give you half a crown.” And he stalked stifly away to his rooms. In half an jhour’s time the butler announced that) Mr. Pompous, the esquire beadle, wished to see the master. Now, the master had a special detes- tation of the beadle, who, when admitted and curtly asked what he wanted, replied: “Mr. Gordon informed me that you desired ee me.” id the master, of you!” In ten minutes more the butler came again, grinning, and said: “Mr. Jemmy Gordon has called and says you half a crown, sir.” weastle to “Gordon has made an ass Les Miserables. EAN VALJEAN retreated underground. the six best cellars,” he explained. This really punts for the big circulation of the book.—. York Sun. * AN you see anything to commend in taat insurance director's “career?” “Well,” answered the man who tries to be charitable, “he was mighty good to his family.” —Weashington Star. Ir is conceded that YOUNGER'S SCOTCH ALE is most nourishing and refreshing.—Adv.