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This page from *Life* magazine consists primarily of **humorous short anecdotes** (brief jokes) and **advertisements**, not political cartoons. The humor reflects early 20th-century rural-urban contrasts: a farmer bewildered by city hotel dining schedules; a circus sword-swallower needing no iron supplementation; a bent farmer explaining that only empty corn husks stand upright. These joke at the expense of rural simplicity or working-class logic. The dominant content is **advertising**: Murad Cigarettes (claiming "scientific" Turkish tobacco blending), Borden's condensed milk, and the Keeley Institute (a real treatment center for addiction). The Keeley ad explicitly markets "a scientific remedy" for "Liquor and Drug Using"—reflecting the period's widespread substance-abuse treatment industry. The page illustrates how early 20th-century magazines mixed editorial humor with commercial messaging, while advertising normalized both consumer products and medical interventions we'd now view skeptically.

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Like flowers which change from year to year, To beautify the place, So presidential booms appear, ‘Then fade, and leave no trace —Washington Star. COULD EAT, BUT COULDN'T SEE A farmer who went to a linge city to see the sights engaged a room at a hotel. and before retiring asked the clerk about the hours for dining. _ “We have breakfast from six to eleven, dinner from eleven to thrce, and supper from three to eight.” explained the clerk x | Wa-al, say," inquired the farmer, in surprise, “what time air | 1 goin’ ter git ter see the town?” —Ladtes’ Home Journal. Thorough enjoyment of delightful aummer Tux Sovrn ror Hosprtatiry: The Manor, Asheville, North Carolina, is the best inn South.— Boole, WOULDN'T PAIN HER FOR THE WORLD | days at the pleasure resorts seems incomplete without the delicious mildness and the rare, “Hello, old man, and how do you enjoy married life, eh? attractive fragrance of Ever have any differences of opinion with your wife?” | 1 "Yes, but I don't let her know about them."—Boston Tran:| § § script 144 MEDICINE AT THE FAIR | Doctor (swho has yust examined member of circus company): 2 He's suffering from anemia. ‘Tonic is what he wants. Give him C “IGARE 4 I ee I ‘ES ‘ iron. plenty of iron. Circus Manacrr: No need at all, boss. He's our sword | ‘ swallower ~Sewee | The Murad represents the highest achievement of sixteen Fer the Nursery—For the Table years of scientific, harmonious blending of the finest For all ages. in all climates, under all conditions, Borden's | varieties of Turkish tobaccos. Its distinctive 1 Eagk Brand Condensed Milk and Peerless Brand Evaporated Sy Cream fill every milk requirement. Superior for ice cream. %; THE PINK OF COMMUTERS ness beyond comparison. Mrs. Sunpuns: She put up a beautiful monument to his ee sacs i\w ie 10 for 15 cents flavor is uniform—its exquisite smooth- Yes, he commuted for ten years and never forgot an errand —New York Sun. f IA \_ S. ANARGYROS, Manufacturer A SMILE OR TWO : 111 Fifth Avenue Laip: Well, Sandy, you are getting very bent. Why don't Y you stand straight up like me, man? Sanpy: Eh, mon, do you see that field o’ corn over there? “T do. “Weel, ye’ll notice that the full heids hang down, and the empty ones stand up."—Glasgow News. ) =ee—~seeee = Heatrm ano Rest, New Wavrrty Horet axp Batt Hovse, Hor Sreincs, ARKANSAS. ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET. THE ONE WHO FILLS THE BILL. “The man who wins my admiration,” said the serious girl “must be one who can stand firm in his convictions in the face of ridicule, opposition and personal dan; “T see,” said Miss Cayenne, “Your ideal is a baseball umpire."—Washington Star. Becoar (piteously): Ab, sir, I am very hungry. Dysrertic (savagely): ‘Then have the decency to keep your good fortune to yourself. I haven't had an appetite for years — London Paper. Hotel Vendome, Boston The ideal hotel of America for permanent and transient guests. e ie martiasie slap lueclinescoueew |} for Liquor ana earthquake to a stranger said that it seemed to have been an experience to find the crockery jumping off the’shelves. “O, ay, 1 mon! It was grand! Ye ken, I've been marrit mony a year, and rug sing weel, that's the only thing that has happened in our hoose that the guidwafe didna bl: for dacin’.""—Tribune. mimmeiianiieeieeil | A scientific remedy which has been skilfully Fatuee (sternly): So you've failed again in your examina- ‘ j and successfully administered by medical tions! How do you explain that? fi specialists for the past twenty-seven years. Son: Because they went and asked me just the same ques- e m ttons as before. —Translated jor Tales from Famulie-Journal. At the following Keeley Institutes : Crurcn: 1 see they are crying for more missior & Laks Mo. Coteus, 0, Pitsberg. Fa. noe ¥ are crying for more misionaries over | } Ht ay, ‘Hoy Locust St. 46 Fifth Aveaste i Sen Franciecn, Cal: Lexington, Mass : Providence, R. Te P Gotnam: Why, those cannibals must be regular gluttons.— Vashington. D.C. Portand, Me. vA ‘Terante, Ontarie, Yonkert Statesman. Grand Rapids, Mich, i London, Engtisd. comicbooks.com