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This page from Life magazine's "This Bubble World" column collects brief satirical commentaries on contemporary news and scandals. The cartoons mock various public figures and institutions: **Left column** features small caricature illustrations accompanying quips about topics like New Jersey politics, Japanese naval victories, German medical treatments, and Chicago's Board of Trade. **Right column** continues the satire, referencing figures like Sir Percy Douglas (Monte Carlo gambling), Mme Rejane (a divorcing actress), John D. Rockefeller (on "graft"), and discussions of life insurance fraud investigations and immigration policy. The overall tone is cynical commentary on American politics, business corruption, society scandals, and international affairs—typical of Life's early-20th-century satirical approach to public figures and institutions.

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Nt JERSEY comes to the front with a muley cow that barks like a New Yor talks like an ass. that. Many a man in this town Admiral Rojestvensky says that the victory of the Japa nthe Sea of Japan was duc entirely to the Japanese ind the men who served them.—Houston Pest. Admi Why, that out? ; have you only just found e n has been successfully used, in Gert ja the tre Medical News In this country we seem to be irreve g A seven-yearold boy in Springfield, Ohi It’s a shame to blight a boy's prospects with a charge like that. A silver soluti tof appendicitis ably on the gold basis. >, has written KE Those farmers who are beginning to worry about what they are to with all the money they get for their big crops might remember that the Chicago Roard of Trade is still in business And that the Tariff still lives, and that each Trust has yet to collect its rake-off. Judianapolis News. A young girl of Syracuse is recovering from the effects of a double acci at the same time into a trench dent, having falle That wasn't into a trance.—San Tt was C Syracuse girl. 8 ancey the famo: Sir Archibald Geik s say's that the earth is deca ry land will be reduced to the level of the sea, Rockest h case the world will be in danger of ai Noau.—Please send your present address to this office. lan God's Choice of Men.— Fook Announcement, The U. S. Senate? Ihave too many friends ia A. o that hos- country again, =/a Praise God, from whom all blessings flow, ) ude Japanese f erica to per it of my ev i Caine, this The effort to ¢ probably fail Don't you believe it. The abiding and in be excluded. antry will are clean, law- re bound to ustrious, They The girls of Tuscany wear daggers in their garters. — Philadelphia Bulletin Is that all? ? Sir Percy Davies, of London, system for beating Fool No. 87, s that he has an infallibl te Carlo. Rochester Pest. 943- bes It is pointed out that there is an unjust tendency to class ess with crime,— Baltimore American In the eyes of the unsuccessful success #s a ) eDaily Paper. an actre: So! crime, as” Mme. Rejane is now a divo Don’t believe it ! It is necessary for the State Department to offer an occasional reminder s, wherever they are, is to behave that the first duty of American citiz Why not es nners? shington Star, blish a much-needed Department of Good John D. Rockefeller says“ of life."—Z Yow, if Mr. Jerome is looking for expert te: << A Cincinnati man aged too years has graft seems to be the watchword in every line imony— ped with a woman aged 31.— hester Union, That sounds more like kidnapping than clopement. Up to this time nobody St. Joseph N No, but McCurd: but Father,""—Live Yes, and father worked so hard that he is now, according to reports, out of But, also, he is out of jail. 16) n and offering splendid inducements to s dramatized the life insurance investigation.— Je is writing a new version of Everybody Works Kentucky, anxious for hardy settlers, Perhaps our immigrants don't like the Kentucky iz du pays, Or they may have heard of Kentucky's shooting habits. .o 3 Russia now enjoys freedom of the press. Some American blackmailers and insurance grafters might question the correctness of that n Transcript hicagy word “ enjoys.”" ( A Jerscy City policeman has inherited a million dotlars.— Omaha W A New York policeman wouldn't get his that way. we They take their dramatic criticism serio plauded a play their skulls frav The American method of excluding unfavorable critics from the theatres is not so expeditious but produces the same result. A young Italian exquisite who committed suicide in Naples recently left a after disposing of his property, he bequeathed a specified num- ber of kisses to fair ladies of his acquaintance.—Bltimore American, We are following Andrew Carnegie's principle in this matter and disposing of ours before death. ly in Spain, At Seville two per- when the rest of the audience were hissing had uted and died later.—Vew Vork Evening Sun. will in which comicbooks.com