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This page is primarily **advertising**, with one satirical cartoon embedded. ## The Cartoon: "Might Be New York" The single cartoon mocks **municipal government inefficiency**, specifically the absurd cycle of repeatedly digging up and repaving streets. Two country councilors discuss a fine street, proposing to: dig it up for a sewer, pave it first, then repave after the sewer installation, then dig it up again for gas pipes, then widen it. One character praises this wasteful cycle as "system" in road maintenance. **The satire**: This critiques real early-20th-century urban infrastructure problems—poorly coordinated public works projects that destroyed streets multiple times. The "country" officials' naive acceptance of this chaos as proper procedure ridicules both municipal incompetence and the pretense of calling such waste "system" or economy. The attribution to *London Tatler* suggests this reflected concerns on both sides of the Atlantic. ## Rest of Page The remaining content consists of period advertisements for tax bonds, furniture, travel services, and railroads, plus brief humorous anecdotes about chess and unlucky romance.

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