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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. It contains three automobile tire/car advertisements: 1. **Royal Motor Car Company** (top left): promoting a 1906 Model G with features like comfort, speed, and safety. 2. **Goodyear Auto Tire** (top right): highlighting a tire with a "Universal Rim" that can be removed in thirty seconds without tools—presented as a major convenience innovation. 3. **Continental Tires** (bottom): featuring imported German tires, emphasizing durability and quality rubber, with the slogan "Make Bad Roads Good." The page also includes a brief humorous story titled "A Horse on Somebody" about a dispute over a mule, and a short joke about battery consumption. This reflects early 1900s automotive advertising when tire technology and quick-change mechanisms were genuine selling points.

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*LIFE- | The GOODYEAR AUTO TIRE “an Can be Removed in Thirty Seconds That's gospel truth, though it sounds like a “fish Story." Stop in at the CHICAGO AUTOMOBILE SHOW of any branch store and do ft yourself, Have a friend hold the watch, ‘Then you'll know we're not exaggerat- ing a parti We want you to know the merits of the Royal Tounst. We want you| | uu won't need a single tool—just your fingers. market, though / bet the Hands Z . You see the flanges on the im are Rings. (paradoxical as it to ask somebody that owns one. You lift out a locking-ring (held in the right hand in the may scent) it is also the most durable. bed sf illustration) and then pull the outside flange right off, ‘This Tire is 90 per cent puncture proof. The owner can tell you better than Like ff your finger. Then slike off the tire. ulously easy and much different from per- haven't Space Tor faniee dete, But spiring away for two or three hours before an inter- $ anyone. ested audience, prying away with “jimmies” and other Here seas tptoments Is true and byeyp ”" MFEIAE Cools: <= It will only take a minute to show you COMFORT SPEED Ss. a Now there are o} good features about THE — the why and the wherefore if you will stop ww HP. 6 Model G GOODYEAR DETACHABLE AUTO TIRE ON at our booth at THE CHICAGO AUTO- | gol 1906 Model G VERSAL RIM, just as important—just as trouble sav- MOBILE SHOW. Or, drop into one ot ing, just as money saving. our Branch Stores, and we'll show you Taken together they wipe ent at one sweep full 90 per — there. Or, write us, and we'll send you a cent of all Auto Tire Troubles book that will sh: It won't Rim Cut. You can ride it absolutely flat for Don't spend @ miles without even marring the casing. and don’t ak the pm It won't Creep, though not mechanically fastened to BSXt season's the rim In any way. are ceeking Fe It is the /:vediest and most resilient Auto Tire on the — achance to convince sou, THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY, Wayne St., AKRON, O. Branches in the Following Cities: ; 719 Main St. Cincinnatl aiSintenmeR SE Sin Fragelas Cor. 6ith Bt. and Broadway. Detroit...0!.. Bailey Tread furnished on Goodyear Tires (all sizes) when ordered ROYAL The Royal Motor Car Company Cleveland 2 Fast Fifth St Chicago St. Louis Philadelphia. Member A. L. A.M ‘Send for Catalogue Jefferson Ave. A Horse on Somebody. | AICKLEY had a fine brown mare, hohe took the greatest care. Last B" June to San Rafael there came a man, John | - Mersfelder by name, who tock the mare to Sansaleet, to pull ice wagons on the street But when he hitched her up, they say, he nd she pulled the other way, So back to San Raiael he went, on getting back his coin nt y are so resilient that the car and occupants are spared the destruc- tive jars and rattling shocks of bad roads. Triumphant through more speed and endurance Uve brought you back your balky mare.” John, “she'd cause a saint to swear. You naranteed that she would pull, that she was | powerful, but now she'll neither | all that she'll do is stand and ialk—and so it naturally follers I'd Eke to IMPORTED CONTINENTAL TIRES are known to be best at any price by all automobilists in all countries, A sure tire—a swift tire—a durable tire. Made of the purest rubber—the strongest fabric and the most **know-how-to-do-it.”” Insist on having them on your car. Send for Booklet Continental Caoutchouc Co. 43 Warren St. New York City bactory: Hanover, Germany have my sixty dollars ne off,” said Bill, “Well her dees tl said John Vil fi The justice, Bill Magee, who heard the fa hat talk don't go.” m: au know,” . or else “and so you'll have to 1 sother way rote te couple now you see before the S. Tee served decision, but made, however, th pro- the all so great a weight, and should not balk, my © is straight, But if the law can't make her go, why William must refund the dough.” The case is still in statu quo.—The Green | le to decide, behind Now, should she “The court, un mare will take a Be TT HE antidote for flattery is a small brother. | —New Orleans Picayune. NSPECTOR: Is there anything the matter with your gas? Lapy: Yes, sir. It has a very bad case of quick consumption—Detroit Free comicbooks.com