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This page is primarily **advertising**, with three distinct sections: **Top Left:** Whisky advertisement for Andrew Usher & Co.'s Scotch whiskies, sold by G.S. Nicholas in New York. **Top Right:** New York Central Lines railroad ad promoting tourist travel to the Thousand Islands region. **Bottom Left:** Prudential Insurance advertisement featuring a businessman's testimonial about life insurance as the only "sure thing" in business—a safe investment guaranteed to protect his family. The ad emphasizes security and guaranteed returns. **Bottom Right:** A cartoon illustration captioned "The Waiter Teaches Uncle John to Pronounce 'Rouen,'" depicting a humorous scene where a waiter corrects an American tourist's mispronunciation of the French city. This illustrates an advertisement for an upcoming serial story called "Seeing France with Uncle John" by Anne Warner, appearing in *Century Magazine*—poking gentle fun at American travelers abroad. The page reflects early 20th-century consumer culture targeting middle-class readers through lifestyle advertising and serialized fiction.

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THE THOUSAND ISLANDS will be more attractive than ever this season. The New York Central Lines Four-Track Series No. 10, “The St. Lawrence River from the ‘Thousand Islands to the Saguenay,” contains the finest map ever made of this region. Copy will be sent free, postpaid, on receipt of a two-cent stamp by George H. Daniels, Manager, General Adver- tising Department, Room 45, Grand Central Station, New York. NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES REACH TH C.F. DALY Sole Agent, New York. “T Have One Kind of cTM ‘tae P ory Pigsms-tne pf roperty, ff STRENGTH OF fs . _— . . i GIBRALTAR °! said a man high in the business world, “on ! ne rg which I consider there is absolutely no hazard or sy | Sid risk of any kind, and that is my life insurance i Le policies. I feel that 1 am taking no business Z chances of any sort in connection with them. They are the solitary sure thing in my entire list ‘of possessions, All other business, all other security, is, to put it roughly, more or less of a gamble. I, of course, hope and expect to with most of my investments, but ¢hall no doubt lose on some, and may on the whole. Smarter men than I have gone to the wall who believed themselves perfectly entrenched against adverse fortune, But on my life insurance policies 1 simply cannot lose; and, what is better, neither can my estate, ‘The money is there, a goodly share of it, reacy for me the date y re, and every dollar of it ready for my estate if I get through with this world to-night. Moreover, it is earning liberal dividends all the time, and every policy is S “What your Uncle John doesn't know — the trick so quick before. I gave him one worth more this year than it was last. I mean every word when about Rouen now isn’t ig to of thore slim in taking life insurance I went into the only thing ook up in the index. Why, I've even got I have ever undertaken in which I ran no risk whatever. It the real Freach twang to the pronunciation. tosay Joan of Ate’ for nothing was and is the only positively “sure thing’ I have ever assumed."* It's Roo-ank ; only you stop short of th datk—Shondark. Learned it TNE WAITER TEACHES UNCLE JOHN TO PRONOUNCE “ ROUEN.” You should protect your family in the same way. festa adr veineaote Wall com on, it yous You can arrange to do it by writing for informa- itaaid he never saw a foreigner eatchon to. France with Uncle John." tion, now while you think of it, to Dept. O. T H E P R U D E N T J A L “Seeing France vith Uncle John,” the new humorous serial | . story, by Anne Warner, author of the ‘Susan Clegg’? stories, Insurance Co. of America begins in the June Century Magazine. Incorporated as a Stock Company by the State of New Jeney JOHN F. DRYDEN, President Home Office: NEWARK, N. J. Press of MNevetery Brotneri comicbooks.com