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This is primarily an **advertising page** with no political cartoons or satire. The content reflects early 20th-century leisure culture and consumer goods. **Key advertisements:** - **Travel promotions**: Luxury train travel (Overland Limited), cruise ships to exotic destinations (West Indies, Mediterranean, Orient, Egypt) via Hamburg-American Line. These target wealthy Americans seeking fashionable vacations. - **Books**: Publishers advertise titles including Kate Douglas Wiggin's *The Old Peabody Pew* and Edward A. Ross's *Sin and Society* (notably with an endorsement from President Roosevelt), reflecting contemporary literary tastes. - **Household goods**: Hartshorn shade rollers, The Lorraine hotel/apartments, Evans Ale. **Historical context for modern readers**: This page captures Gilded Age consumer culture—when travel abroad signified status, and published books were valued gift items. The Roosevelt endorsement illustrates his public intellectual influence on business ethics debates of the Progressive Era.

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en discussicg pithont spect Away from constantly-beset- ting cares and conventionalities ; away from the chill of Fall and Winter, and find rest and recrea- tion in’ that paradise of flowers, beautiful scenery and rare climate— California. ‘Take The Overland Limited on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. By far the most luxurious and exclusive of transcontinental trains. Perfect in erery appointment; unapproached ser- vice in dining, sleeping and library-obser- mationcars. Electric lighted throughout. Leaves Union Passenger Station, Chicago, 6.05 p. m., completing trip in less than three days.” Alsoa train 10.10 p. m. with through standard and tourist sleepers. Literature upon addressing, ARE YOU GOING AWAY? TRIPS OF \ TWO WEEKS THREE WEEKS FOUR WEEKS OR OF LONGER DURATION, 10 Summer Lands We dispatch superb passenger ships to the West Indies Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panama Canal the Mediterranean “Me ORIENT fork. the Holy Land, etc. Send for our illustrated book of travel, “Winter Voyages” HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE 35-37 Broadway, New York Chicago Philadelphia ESTES} AND BEST BOOKS THE OLD PEABODY PEW By KATE DOUGLAS WICCIN A New England romance of the best type, refresh ing and interes: Charmingly printed, decorated and illustrated as a holiday gift book. $1.50 THE PRINCESS POURQUOI By MARGARET SHERWOOD "The story is charmingly told, and there is so. much of worldly wisdom brought out that both the practical elder and the romantic youngster become interested and then entertained." — Boston Journal. Mlustrated, $1.50 HUMAN BULLETS By TADAYOSHI SAKURAI “The most remarkable book. in a literary and psycho- logical way, brought out through the war clash of Russia and Japan."—New York World. With frontispiece in color. $1.50 net. Postage, 12c. SIN AND SOCIETY By EDWARD A. ROSS With an Introductory Letter by President Roosevelt A scathing arraignment of modern business ethics and a brilliant exposition of the principles underlying the govern- ment’s recent f: policies, $1.00 net. Postage extra Miss Repplier’s Edition of the LETTERS OF JAMES HOWELL * Book lovers everywhere prize these Letters as the earli- est and quaintest in the long English Fetters, 10 hold their place o it along with those of Walpole, Cowper, Fitzge enson. ‘Their quiet charm of phrasing never falls, ther Herald. 2. $5.00 net gossip and anecdotes never weary on With photogravure frontispi: stage, 27 cents For Free Illustrated Catalog send to HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY 4ParkSt.,BOSTON. 85 Fifth Ave., NEW YORK HARTSHORN SHADE ROLLERS Bear the script name of Stewart ‘Hartshorn on label. Get“ Improved,” no tacks required. ___Wood Rollers Tin Rollers The LORRAINE Fifth Ave. and 45th St. New York OPERATED BY LORRAINE CO. Furnished apartments and individual rooms, with bath, transiently or per- manently, upon notice. RestaurantalaCarte. Superior Cuisine PAUL W. ORVIS GEO. C. HOWE INEN PLAYING CARDS CLUB A Patested Playing Cart with a handsome reproduction of a hemstisched lieea handkerchief on the back. Colees—Red, lve, Grea, brown. 2s cents. Gold edge 35 ¢ Of all dealers or the manufacturers Radcliffe & Co., New York.144 Pear! St.,& Londo B CLARK'S TENTH ANNUAL CRUISE | | February 6, 08. 70 days, by chartered S. S. | “Arabic,” 16,000 tons. World, to Europe, Sicily, etc. FRANK C. CLARK | Times Building Tours Round the | NEW YORK ‘ot since ale was first brewed, centuries ago, has it attained the perfection shown to-day in every bottle of Evans e ere you find the crowning achieve- ment of a century of progress in brewing and bottling—the cul- mination of ale goodness. Clubs, Restaurants, Saloons, Dealers comicbooks.com