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This page contains primarily **advertisements and editorial content** rather than political cartoons. The main article, "A True Horse Story," depicts animal cruelty in early 20th-century urban America. It recounts an encounter with a horse whose neck was painfully checked (pulled upward by reins), causing distress. The story advocates for humane treatment—the horse owner learns the practice causes suffering and removes the cruel restraint. This reflects Progressive Era concerns about animal welfare. The advertisements promote **business paper** (Coupon Bond), **neckwear** (Keiser Cravats), **shade rollers**, and **Knox Sailor hats**—typical period merchandise. A sidebar editorial titled "The Silent War" references **Uncle Tom's Cabin**, comparing the struggle against economic monopolies ("trusts") to abolitionism—suggesting corporate exploitation parallels slavery's moral urgency. The page reflects early 1900s American values: humane reform, consumer goods, and anti-monopoly sentiment.

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"PE OF FRIENDSHIP The Mark that emis ny friend beca set ee 8 & Identifies the De Luxe ranced to help, once, when he needed me, Business Paper 4 Jost his friendship for bis gratitude. u —Kenncth Wilson, in A pplcton's Magazine Fig assed Impossible to . A TRUE HORSE STORY ties poor Cra+ On Madison Street one day I paused to pat the nose of a vat and obtain | beautiful horse which stood by the curb, and commiserate his a graceful and misfortune, for this beautiful animal, though sleek of coat and Bective Fue shapely in body and limb, was apparently suffering most ex: | ‘ot alone Va cruciating tor His head had been checked inhumanly high the fabric, but and the cruel bit, drawing - disfigured an | also in the nd intelligence. 1 was just | shape of the to understand and appreciate | ‘Carat KEISER e is very fond of sugar,” she expl rs wis win not cia acl onc ima tape Re CRAVATS tunity, [never knew a horse to be so fond of ir. Will you please give him another lus _ ” 1 replied ‘ Being m Ld the better cra- theh as he is of sweets. vat silks, with i Yes, I think everything of him.” Beckbandsand Hold a sheet of “Then why de outta hin code! properly iser Cravats COUPON BOND is just what you are doing. Do you know that almost the kek themselces—they slip into shape so ape © light— eas! X ciser Cravals bear the guar paper to the light His neck is drawn out straight, producing setae iabeletock for It & look for the water-mark “COUPOOM : gle, he holds his head awkwardly, the bit Keiser-Marathea staples in black, IED" —this is a guarante, | is hu h and graceful curvature of neck and white, plain colors and figures—also, Bone’ M Eis 9. Guarantee ‘i cen white lack for evening dress. An illustrated book —""The Cravat''= | on the ethics of Correct Dress, sent Clothe soar messages 10 youc correspond: | anywhere on receipt of 6c in stamps ents in the best that the printer or stationer royed their natural JAMES R. KEISER, See Nebo cauty, She was amazed at the discovery . wosursiaz cai Print your price, lists, letters, checks Say T ronble sow le u s she asker 10-16 W. 20th St., New York. and envelopes on COUPON BOND. When the strap was unsnapped the m ately lowered KEISER A message on COUPON BOND —like fened the cramps out of his handsome neck. PALCPAvars} a well-dressed, forceful salesman—is always sure of @ hearing GOUPON BOND isthe hichest type f Tend P. € ° in his intelligent eyes that his mistress Peers pais declared no more checking straps should be used upon him.— the method of manufacture, a declared hecking straps should be used upon ki holding the reins fumbled in her pocket, produced a lump of | overcome are now entirely lost quality, finis high checking tras he had actually beea release bondage and then looked round with such a grate) edceot paper making insure § busi : Chicago Herald. of unrivaled quality and appearance. 1k ee he hice COUROM Dram he compte ih ne of exec of such HARTSHORN be pe ni hasi ‘omic papers as Flicgende Blactter, Simplicissimus and Der FPO on the eee I aes Pe coors Toes at ae ter, SimMicissimes and D SHADE ROLLERS Wehre Jocob, the contention that German humor shows no 2 ere it is not the de luxe busine he seri of Stewart paper. IT PAYS TO GET THE BEST. sense of measure and no instinctive tact is by no means unsound Bow Oy clenoa wee ‘Write ua on your business letter head Germany, it must be remembered, has never produced a great Get “Improved,” no tacks required. Peat apes oabeon Bose comic dramatist oF a great satirist. Another thing to be remem | Wood Rollers Tin Rollers ihite aed ta colore—and the bered in studying the German humor of the past fifty years is a rameof local printer oF star that much of that nations’s comic talent has come to the United HENEVER you see a toner who can supply it. States and found its expression amid new surroundings. As in “Knox Sailor” you will see THE AMERICAN WRITING PAPER CO. Hee! ne apart oiaienaiel _ hed ays 5 the per a woman of accurate taste Livee Mawatanaversiot | (the piow piow),so in Germa: ‘omic writers find a rich field P caret. Menelres o intheawkwardoes ofthe new recruit and thearrogantauthonty | UAerneath it, She who wears a HOLYOKE. - - M slike delerecsa. A beautiful illustration of the cumbersome KNO national humor is found in the German version of Punch's advice to people about to marry. Instead of the brief SAILOR and illuminating “Don’t” of English wit we have, “If you are] may not be beautiful, but she is sure to going to be married, my son, I will give you some good advice.” “And what is it?" “You had better not.” be correctly and Yet, despite the absolute absence of any sort of tradition, | becomingly attired. Germany to-day has a certain conceded place in the wit of the |. nations, and this is entirely dife to the indiyfdual achievement | S@id_& roman, of ani! the influence of Wilhelm Busch. The &stinetive contribu: | fashion, ** One ee] s I ‘HE SILENT WAR” tion of Germany to pictorial humor has Agen the series of | BES facet time ao = pictures without words or with very few words.” Perhaps in this | thought to gowns that may prove as potent line Busch has never quite attained the comic effects of Caran | 27€ Not always success- an influence in releasing Ache, but the breadth of his humoe and its heart appeal have a Bot bent ae i won him an audience vastly larger than that of the brill A Americans from the thral- Frenchman. Some of his erations lke Max unt Merits; Hane | KHOW T ean wear it on rty juckebein and Plisch und Plum, have become universal | CVEFY Appropriate dom of the money tyrants Hucket 1 Plisch und Plum, have become universal | CVELY APPL 2 , ™ H Mer tha! ie Fatherlas as did “Uncle Tom's Whaat tect htt] a sense of the homely lines of Busch, whose Cabin” in liberating the CeO OL OGLE | satisfaction negro from bondage. that nothing - else affords.” A Victim of the Trusts. “1 atways thought,” said the hostess, “that Scotchmen were humorous. Last night I showed a departing Scotch guest a | New York great pile of overcoats in the dressing-room, Salestoces: atigiles nd Agency Here,’ 1 said, with a wave of my hand, “you are the first | Department » leave. Take your choice." in the Knox Thank you,’ said he, as he fumbled searching among them, | Bailding 452 Vl ave me own." —Inde pendent, Gon donb St, soo comicbooks.com