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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The dominant content is a full-page advertisement for the American Roadster automobile ($3,250, manufactured in Indianapolis), featuring detailed specifications and selling agencies across the United States. Below the car ad are two smaller advertisements: one for Calder's Dentine (tooth powder) and one for Allen's Foot-Ease (a foot powder/remedy). The upper left contains brief editorial text about Mr. Howells' vision for an ideal society and mentions of Oldchester Village and Myra Kelly, but this appears to be standard magazine content rather than political commentary. **No political cartoons or satirical figures appear on this page.** It represents typical early 20th-century magazine composition: editorial matter with substantial advertising revenue.

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R. HOWE himself a city dwell- er, has forescen an ideal state of so- ciety in which town life, as we know it, is | abandoned, and families in groups of a dozen ot a score have combined to live in neighborly yet independent fashion. ‘The number of persons for whom such a plan would be practicable is undoubtedly on the increase, and the time is ripe for ex- } periments, Oldchester Village, in a bow! j of the Orange Mountains, 1,000 feet above sea-level and fourteen miles from Man- in process of formation along these lines. With its quaint, low, white- walled cottages, its village green, its old- fashioned inn, with tap-room and stage coach, together with its gardens and wood- land, the 600-acre tract will eventually take on the character of rural England in miniature. THE AMERICAN ROADSTER $3,250, f.0.b. Indianapolis * * * N THIS bucolic retreat, Myra Kelly is at present the mistress of all she surveys. The nucleus of the village is the model farm of her husband, where she has been — | living since her marriage, and where she | has written “The Isle of Dreams.” What- ever of fiction may be forthcoming from this environment, it must be inspired if it y is to lay hold of the imagination in the same degree as her husband's practical and crea- tive activities. The colony as planned by } Mr. Macnaughton is a fascinating work, } and calls for the employment of uncom- mon facult! Its farming land will make it independent of outside markets; its streams and woodlands will be stocked with game and fish. There is even talk of a steeplechase course through the several | thousand adjoining acres owned by the Drexels, of Philadelphia. At least thirty homes can be established on the Mac- naughton tract; the only restrictions are to be the style of architecture and the acter of the people, who may be either tenants or owners of their homes. The mountain stream running through the The smartest, sportiest car offered at home or abroad. De- signed on racing lines, built of racing materials, with all the extreme care and nicety of hand workmanship that is given to the cup racers. Cuts off better than a mile a minute without effort. Low center of gravity, tremendous proportion of power to weight, perfect system of control and remarkable spring action make such speed not only perfectly safe, but perfectly comfortable. You'll never know what the automobile game really is until you ride in this wagon. SPECIFICATIONS—Four Cylinders, § x 5, water cooled. Double ignition, H.T. Magneto with Auxiliary Coil and Battery. Float feed Carburetor. Complete automatic lubrication, Sliding gear transmission, three forward and reverse. Direct drive with floating live axle. Wheels 36x 334 and 364. Wheelbase 106. Frame pressed steel, underslung on half-elliptic springs, 42-inch front and 48-inch rear. Spark and throttle levers on steering wheel. Running and Emergency brakes. Weight 2,200 lbs. H. P. 40 to 50. Price $3,250. 9 American Motor Car Company Indianapolis SELLING AGENCIES: New Yorx €rty. Detroit Motor Car & Supply Co., 2230 Broadway Boston, Mass. W. A. Fredericks, 16 Columbus Ave. Pardee & Canary, Inc. 1218 and 1220 Michigan Ave. Pe ¥ i ‘ Note the fact that the body sets property will be dammed to form a little y per Automobs 3022 Olive St. 2 mer . between the axles, not over them. ith Automobile Co., 1420 and 1422 Court Place lake, and this will be the terminus for the fornia Motor Car Co. The great springs allow the axles to Renting Garage OxtAHOMA Oxia. Oklahoma Motor Car Co. travel up and down without disturbing — Qxtanous Wilts Crow Motor Cos the body. Cepar Rarips, a. A. E. Durin » toboggan slide in winter. Meanwhile, roads are building and land is clearing, and | some half a dozen of the smaller houses } will be ready for occupancy this summer | The organizer of Oldchester has set a lure for the feet of the literary. When the toad coach sets out from the inn on its morning trip to Montclair, top-heavy with | Intellect and Art, may we be there to see! ENS FOOT-EASE Shake Into Your Shoes os THE TEETy CALDER’S BAPONACEOUS Allen's Foot=Ease, a powder for the + SOMEBODY has been slandering Caro- Figily In glass or the Sat of comeand bunions. Ttmthe greats lyn Wells—somebody in Philadelphia, maintained few alumioum Rien'e FootsEare Makes tinting er where old-fashioned notions about literary | for over ae new shoes feel easy. It isa certain cure for workmanship still prevail, and where even | fifty yearn by mail Ibe. red, aching feet, We have over 30,008 busy professional men have been known | DENTINE Ball Drogiats and Shoe Storer ase. “De | to write letters in longhand. Despite her i youth and brilliance, this anonymous |) paragrapher, Miss Wells has one trait in common with the old fogies of literature— not accept any substitute. Seat by mail for 26c. in stamps. FR E TRIAL PACKAGE sent by mail. Address ALLEN 8. OLMSTED, Le Roy, N.Y, PREPARED HY \lbert L Calder Co. comicbooks.com