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This page is primarily **advertising and humorous anecdotes**, not political satire. The main content consists of: **"Our Foolish Contemporaries"** — A humor column featuring brief jokes about: - A suffragette's argument for voting rights (topical to the women's suffrage movement) - A Scottish pilgrim's religious hypocrisy - A business college that trains girls to marry their employers **The Lincoln Anecdote** — A longer story praising Abraham Lincoln's honesty, illustrating how his genuine uncertainty ("I am not sure") paradoxically convinced a jury of his client's innocence, contrasting his integrity with typical legal tactics. **Smaller jokes** about clerical mishaps and tailors. **The bulk of the page** advertises the **Palmer-Singer Town and Country Car** (1909 model), highlighting its 28-30 H.P. motor, luxury seating, and value—positioned as superior to foreign competitors at half their price. Additional advertisements include cigars, financial services, and spring water. This is essentially a **satirical humor column with substantial advertising**—typical of Life magazine's format in this era.

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? r= OOR PooLisi. GNTEMPORARIES bi CLERICAL ADVICE A suffragette. sneered at Mrs. queer logic the other day. py nst votes for women,” she said. “At a lunch of suffragettes in New York, by means of a par she pointed out her belief that the immediate h ot the distant polling booth or Senate chan he true feminine sphere of usefulness, We sd, T assure you. id an aged Scot told his micister that he was going to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. “And whiles I'm theer,’ said the pilgrim, com: placently, ‘TI read the Ten Commandments aloud frac the top o’ Mount § “+ Saunders,’ said the min Ride at hame and keep them. was ag: ister, ‘tak’ my advice. "—London Tribune. “Your business college for young ladies seems to MH right.” tis all right.” Do you give the girls a good practical business training? “In reply question I can only say that Go of our graduates marry their employers the per cent, ¢ Courier-Journal. first year Asnevitte The four-season resort of the South, Te Manon, the English-like Inn of Asheville. 1 AM NOT SURE, ARE YOU?” People had such colossal faith in Lincoln that they were willing to stake anything and everything on his hone The very consciousness of his honesty of purpose gave him a tremendous power with court and jury, in iMustration of which Justice Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court, relates the following story: Lincoln was engaged to defend a stranger in a Western town, charged with murder. The murder was such a brutal one, and the circumstantial evidence so complete and convincing, that even Lincoln him: celf, after a most careful investigation, conceded that everything seemed to point to his client's guilt. He had thought a great deal on the case, he told the men in the jury box, and that, while it seemed probable that his client was guilty, yet he was not sure. With those marvelously honest eyes of his he looked the jury straight in the face and said, “I am Are you?” faith of the jury in not sure reat w incoln’s hon- ind the real fr was “afterward: cotivicted. and. paniholl Success. In a Pinch use ALLEN'S FOOT- THE SAME FAMILY An official of the Department of Commerce and Labor, who d been directed by his chief to draw up a summary of the conclusions of certain distin- guished authorities on engineering, met with disaster rot long ago, when he had occasion to refer to tain statements of Mr. A. R. Colquhoun, the British engineer. The official had been told that after Mr. Col- quhoun's name there should be placed the letters “M1 CE (Member of the Institute of Ci Engineers). “That's easy to remember, the off had said, adopting an casy system of mnemonics. “MLC. EL’ spells ¢ 4 This memory system was of little avail for when the official handed in his su ters after Mr. Colquhoun’s name were " R. —Lippincott’s. mice. however, the le ALT. S. A. Patysictan, sultation room, longest?" “T have," spoke clothes three weeks upon opening the door of his con asked: “Who has been waiting sp the tailer, “I delivered your 0." Argonaut. GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER “It’s purity has made {t famous" The Palmer-Singer Town and Country Car, 1909 Model, Type XXX-2 is now being exhibited and de- livered. to-day. It is the most serviceable car on the market Its 28-30 H.P. motor provides ample power to take its full complement of passengers on long hard tours over any road at a very good speed. Closed it is a beautiful luxurious Town Car, seating four inside, ideal for the purpose and far superior to many foreign makes at double the price. A glance at its specifications will show the remarkable value it offers. all steering connections, closed in dust-proof cases. 1620-22-24 Broadway, N.Y. ' Sole Distributors the Simplex OF BRAINS IGARS __=MADE AT KEY WEST#— “FOR _» MEN Nickel steel is used to give lightness and strength. ted F, & S. ball bearings exclusively. magneto and multiple disc clutches. front axle—four-speed selective type, sliding gear transmis- sion with direct drive on third speed. All brakes equalized, all expanding type and on rear wheels. Shaft driven, all moving parts in- | Bon Impor- Bosch high tension Drop forged I beam, Universal joints on Write for our color booklet L—it’s free. Palmer & Singer Mfg. Co. 1321 Michigan Avenue, Chicaco ends on ~Credit ae NESTOR CIGARETTES SNESTOR” “IMPORTED” “ROYAL NESTOR” ng Lat was. Bios Label The t Original Brand of Over 30 Years’ Reputation fs ilsstrsiedcateloy st Bridge acess iadicliffo & Gow See Torts 148 Pour! Sta 4 Lenten