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This page contains three advertisements rather than satirical content. The top left advertises Winston Churchill's novel *Coniston* through The Macmillan Company. The upper right promotes a Pennslyvania Clenger-Racing Type automobile with details about durability and grip. The bottom section advertises *Tomfoolery*, a collection of humorous drawings and limericks by James Montgomery Flagg, published by Life Publishing Company for 75 cents. The only illustration with potential satirical content is the sketch labeled "On the R.R." (Railroad), showing two figures in what appears to be a train setting, though without additional context, the specific satirical meaning remains unclear.

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lI e — a EE Early critical opinions of WINSTON CHURCHILL’S NEW NOVEL Coniston call it “first of all a delightful love story, vigorous, vibrant and realistic.” > eee CONISTON is a love Qory of the sort that warms the cockles of the heart, arouses every laggard and latent impulse of sympathy, and lends enthusiasm to fancy. . . . With amazing constructive skill and superb literary an... its alluring and powerful demonstration of human nature glows and lashes through the pages of this long narrative.” CONISTON ‘is by long odds the be®t, the most important and mod significant novel that has proceeded from Mr. Churchill's pen—if it be not, indeed, the bea American novel yet brought to public notice and attention. It is certainly the great novel of the year.” e | Uniform with “Richard Carvel,” ‘“‘ The Crisis,” “ Cloth, $1.50. The Cross- ing,” etc. Published by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY %46,FiQh Ave. ON THE R. R. Conductor: we're DUE AT MIDDLEPORT AT FOUR O'CLOCK. Mrs. O'Toole: AN yUWAT TOIWE DO YEZ GET THERE? Oe AM m iii me Can be re ‘hed pat for ehiNG | TOMFOOLERY Drawings and Limericks by JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG It isn’t predigested Te won't manufacture brains It isn't good to eat at all— It simply entertains “TOMFOOLERY” monumental collection of fun since the famous Nonsense Book. Pritel ih med black with forty-eight remark heads, and bound in boards with special cover design. 75 CENTS POSTPAID. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY ' 17 West 31st Street, New York City comicbooks.com