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This page is primarily **advertising content** rather than political satire or editorial cartoons. The top-left features a Rambler automobile advertisement from Thomas B. Jefferson & Company, promoting a Model 22 touring car priced at $1,250. The right side advertises the Witherbee Battery, claiming to extend a car's engine life by improving ignition performance. The bottom-left contains a small illustration titled "When They Came Back" depicting birds returning to a birdhouse, with a humorous domestic caption about rented lodging. The bottom-right advertises Teco Pottery, distinguishing genuine Teco products from inferior copies and warning consumers to check for the manufacturer's imprint. This appears to be a standard magazine page mixing commercial advertisements with minimal editorial content—typical of early 20th-century American periodicals.

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» Model 22, $1,250. With Detachable Tonneau $175 Extra. A powerful, convertible tourabout that is beyond question the most Convenient, Economical and Serviceable car ever built. As a two-passenger car it has racy lines and ample storage capacity for touring. ‘As a five-passenger car it has none of the unpleasant appearance of the earlier patterns of convertible cars, but a roomy, well balanced, comfortable tonneau and great surplus power for any road conditions. ‘The new Rambler unit power plant stands without a rival in compactness, accessibility and efficiency. The new tilting body gives a degree of accessibility to the entire mech- anism never before approached. You cannot afford to order your new car without examining the superb model. Main Office and Factory, Henosha, Wis. Branches: Chicago, — Milwaukee, | Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, New York Awency, 35-40 W. 62nd St. Representatives in all leading cities, Thomas B. Jeffery @ Company ens HE Witherbee Battery lengthens the life of your car. It makes the thousands of dollars spent in its purchase price more of an investment; spreads it over a much /onger term of usefulness. Imperfect ignition ruins a car quicker than any other trouble. It racks the engine frightfully ; it impairs the working of all the delicately adjusted parts of the entire car and adds fully 75 per cent. to the cost of up-keep. The Witherbee Battery provides the only perfect ignition. -It will make a $2,000 car give more actual read value than many an $8,000 car which has imperfect ignition. A Car Is No Better Than Its Ignition There are some things about ignition which you should know in order to get greater epeed, greater safety, greater value out of your car; drop us a line requesting No. 2 and we will send you a little booklet which will be of inesti- male value to you it's free, WITHERBEE IGNITER COMPANY Main Office: 541 West 45d St., New York City BRANCHES: CHICAGO: 1429 Michigan Avenue. DETROIT: 260 Jefferson Avenue. BALTIMORE: 510 Continental Bldg. WHEN THEY CAME BACK Bird Landlord : 1 Ast VeRY SORRY, MRt ORIN, BUT { HAVE RENTED THE MOUSE TO A PARTY THAT STAYS THE YEAR ROUND. Creators vs. Copyists The creator of a new beauty puts the world and eternity in his debt. The copyist of his work might claim a minor credit for extending the beneficent effects, were the copyist ever able to truly and wor- thily copy—but he always fails. The characteristic designs in TECO POTTERY whether standard or new, embody an art so pure as to immediately and without argument compel the en- thusiasm and love of every eye trained to the recog- nition of beauty. The makers of inferior potteries who are satisfed to be mere copyists of TECO forms, and imitators of TECO tones in green, have become so emboldened by the steady growth of the demand for TECO that it becomes our duty to counsel those who seck for genuine things to LOOK FOR THE TECO IMPRINT o7 the bottom of every piece alleged to be Teco. If the TECO mark is not there, it is not TECO. Send for the Teco Portrouio de luxe, and a list of authonzcd agencies Always address THE GATES POTTERIES, 645 Chamber of Commerce, Chicago comicbooks.com