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This page is primarily **advertisements and fiction promotion** rather than political satire. The notable content includes: **Top Left:** A Jaeger brand underwear ad emphasizing outdoor sportswear for hunters, golfers, and motorists—reflecting early 1900s leisure pursuits of the wealthy. **Center:** Collier's magazine promotes three upcoming short stories by Rex E. Beach, Rowland Thomas, and O. Henry, available in November for ten cents. **Bottom:** A "Rad-Bridge" patent medicine ad featuring William Howard Taft (appearing as a caricature), who was likely running for president in 1908. The ad uses his name as endorsement, playing on his prominence—a common advertising tactic of the era. **Interior text** includes humorous pieces: "A Ballad of Inquiry" about who wrote "Casey at the Bat," a comical letter from a Filipino job applicant with broken English, and joke anecdotes. The page reflects early 20th-century American advertising practices: celebrity endorsements, patent medicines, and leisure-class marketing.

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C FFE The ideal underwear for out- door recreation. No sportsman, hunter, golfer, yachtsman or motorist should be without it. SPECIAL WEIGHTS FOR FALL Of, JAEGER'S 8. W. S.C0'S OWN STORES a toyinea oe: Arents inal Principal C ithe Great Stories The Cub Reporter By REX E. BEACH McGennis’s Promotion By ROWLAND THOMAS He Also Serves By O. HENRY Illustrated by noted artists, these stories will be published complete in the November Fiction Number, issued October 31, and on sale everywhere during the entire month of November for Ten Cents Collier’s The National Weekly ye RAD-BRIDGE Registered at Pet. Cifice Loxoen: wasminstons OTTAWA. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT y ‘Then up spake the big Wittlam H. Tatt, tke my word, it 1s to have latt, I'm moch bigger thaa Bryan, Mave tried “RAD-RRIDGE™ an Ihe thinks he'll beat we A BALLAD OF Sa Some things Td y" interest to me. was the Man with the Iron M. To find Why won't authorities agree? Some say it's by a man named Trask, Two hooks cite 17 Murphy, three. T don’t care what's a waiter's fee Or why a miller wears whi Or if an angel's Casey at the Rut who wre *s Rook a of son tent to bask With Casey's tale my weird to dree. To this im sufficit, —Verbum sat.” I'll probe no other myst Rut who wrote sey at the Bat se I'm devotee, Lrxvor Reader, I proffer thee my plea (Mallades are always doing that). Forgive me if 1 pester thee, Rut who wrote “Casey at the Bat"? —Carolyn Wells, in Collier's. THE EVER-ELUSIVE JOB A friend of the Woman's Home Companion living in the Philippines sends a letter received at Army Headquarters from a young Filipino in search of a clerical position. We print below an exact copy, the applicant's name alone being chan 87 Tandua; Quiapo, Manila, P. 1, April 21, 1908. Sir Captain William W. Chamberlaine, General Staff, Military Information Division, Fort Santiago, Manila. Dear Sir: I have honorable to write you a let telling my wishes to serve, which permit me to offer Tam very idle looking for unemployment of three weeks to work. Also I thought-attention to future life. be sweiftest for making sucess of it. Waiting on table-board of repulsive to Filipino young man when pass the “Third Grade” ex tion for Civil Scevice Board that it hold on the 1 13th of this month. I supposed I could passed be- cause I never found any difficulties on it. Tam not Philippine Constabulary for st ipino people. Thank you. I am educa- Rizal Business College for three years to T have the Bookkeeping and also I have the Typewriting to proceed with neat: Exclaimation of Professor Payton arter, honorable gentle Rizal Business College, Tam competent of vast experience in commercial life of stenographer for steady employment. Therefore 1 nt question to answer, Hon. Mr. at your office to my valuable services I ask to answer. Obediently your respectful servant, Panto pe Los Morsros, Clerk —Woman’s Home Companion. THE MOONSHINER In the days when certain sections of South Missouri were famous for the illicit distillation of whiskey a visitor was introduced to a man named Joshua, famous locally for his ill Are you the J > red the No,” responded the m the Joshua who made the tmoon-shine still." —Suecess. ve some large quantities of Your business would ‘evada Hotel wish to joi my of tion of th “Ip pLants have thoughts, feelings and emotion milar to those of human beings—" Well? * “low the average canteloupe must chuckle w the look of disappointment on 1 the person who has just cut it open! "—Chi: cago Tribune. “7 Modern Machinery and Methods, in fact, the very best of everything, enters into the construction of Wright’s Health Underwear to make it the most sanitary and healthful underwear that anybody can buy. Made of many tiny, fluffy loops. 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