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This page is primarily **advertisements and book reviews** with one substantial anecdote about President Theodore Roosevelt. The main content is a humorous story about Roosevelt's train journey through Kansas. A barefoot boy rushes to hand Roosevelt flowers as the train departs; Roosevelt, impressed by the boy's effort, stops the train to accept the bouquet and rewards him with a dollar. The joke's punchline: the porter reveals the same bouquet had been thrown out a window three days earlier—the boy unknowingly delivered old, withered flowers. The anecdote celebrates Roosevelt's character: his willingness to honor the boy's earnest gesture despite the flowers being worthless. The concluding moral suggests this resourceful Kansas boy will become a "captain of industry," reflecting early 20th-century American optimism about social mobility. The rest of the page features typical period advertisements (hotels, books, stables, dental products) with no apparent satirical content.

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Sends cents postage for “A Summer Paradise” describing this great natural wonder and illustrating cool northern resorts. A. A. Heard, A., Albany, N.Y. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT used to get flowers and bouquets by the bushel, generally presented by some of the young ladies of the town; and these offerings would finally pile up to such an extent that the porter would be compelled to open the car- window and throw them out to make way for those of the next town. An amusing incident in this con- nection occurred at a little Kansas town, The Presidential train was just pulling out of the depot, when through the crowd came a barefoot boy, running with all his might and carrying a bouquet in his hand. He yelled. Roosevelt saw him; so did the whole populace. “Well,” said the Preshient, “T can't run away like this and insult the boy” he pulled the bell-rope and brought the train to a stop. The youngster came up breathlessly and delivered Roosevelt smiled and handed him a dollar, and the incident was closed. Later, as the train was. speeding on its way, his “dee-lighted” smile was a bit troubled, and he called in the porter. “Jerry,” he said, “it seems to me these flowers are rather withered, aren’t they? That boy must have had a hard time getting through the crowd.” Vell, they ought to be withered,” was the answer. “That there bouquet has been on this train for three days, and I just threw it out of the window back at that town.” ‘There is a boy some- where in Kansas who will be a captain of industry one of these days.—Suceess, | the roses. | HE exipanrataazy, re eiaiiees, the craving for something new before there has been time to understand or enjoy what is in hand, is of a nece: causing manners to deteriorate, and is certainly cur- tailing the amenities of social life on which past gen- erations set such store. 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