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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains: **Major Advertisements:** - Atwood Grapefruit (top): Markets Florida grapefruit as a superior breakfast fruit, emphasizing the Manavista grove's size and quality investment - Suyler's Candies (top right): Holiday gift boxes - Stevens Arms & Tool Co. (bottom): Rifles and shotguns marketed as gifts for "athletic boys and men," with reference to Dan Beard's hunting guide - The Goupley Prints (bottom right): Art reproductions as Christmas gifts **Humorous Filler Content:** The page includes three brief comic anecdotes ("He Was the Limit," "His Idea of Getting Work," "Time's Changes") typical of early 20th-century magazine humor—short, gentle jokes about social situations and relationships with no political content. **Context:** This reflects early 1900s consumer culture and gift-giving traditions, with no discernible political satire or social commentary.

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T ——— Ne other fruit at breakfast time is so thoroughly appetizing, so keenly enjoyable or so highly healthful as a luscious, juice-filed ATWOOD GRAPE FRUIT. ‘ou have already eaten grape fruits of indifferent kinds—the rough, thick- skinned, bitter sort, or the little-better, half-dried, small-proportioned kind; but until you have been served at breakfast with a delicious AT- WOOD Grape Fruit, filled with its cooling juice, you will never know how thoroughly refreshing or how delectable grape fruit can really be. he ATWOOD Grove at Manavista, Fla. is the largest grape fruit grove in the world. Its 25,000 trees, if set in one row, would extend 80 miles. A quarter of a million dollars have been expended in producing a grape fruit superior in quality to any other grown. The ATWOOD trade-mark is on the wrappers. This is your guarantee of the perfect product. Look for it when you buy. To serve—cut in cross sections, remove the core and serve with or without sugar. Grape Fruit is better when served without ice. THE ATWOOD COMPANY KIMBALL C. ATWOOD, President and Treasurer, 290 Broadway, NEW YORK. UNEQUALLED CANDIES Fancy Boxes &Baskets in all Sizes & at all Prices inlarge variety of Designs > SOLD BY OUR AUTHORIZED SALES AGENTS EVERYWHERE 3 AT ANY OF OUR FIFTY RETAIL STORES: HE WAS THE UMIT Of all the bores he was the limi “Do you know,”’ feel the think I'd do you thi “Well, with a ya some of your acquaintances."* T sometimes Weally, I What he drawled, call of the polar regions. like to join a relief expedition. ink of it, Miss Wose? "” Rei responded the weary girl, wn, “it certainly would be a relief to “ BEE-ATTITUDES ”? And without a word he took his hat and cane and departed.—Chicago Daily News. HIS IDEA OF GETTING WORK Kino Oup Lavy: Have you ever made an effort to get work? Beccar: Yes, ma'am. Last month I got work for two members of my iamily, but neither of them would take it—Illustrated Bits. TIME'S CHANGES “Before we were married you said you'd-lay down your life for me,'’ she sobbed “I know it," he returned, solemnly ; “ but this confounded flat is so tiny there's no place to lay anything down.""—Harper's Bazar. It tells now 5c for Pistols, to select a gun. postage brings it. A book any boy or man will like Can you think of anything the athletic boys and men of to-day like better than hunting and shooting? No gift can be more appropriate— none will be more appreciated—than a Stevens, A Stevens Rifle fur a boy, a Stevens Shotgun for a man—these are gifts which will please. Send for the Stevens Catalog— Learn of the many superiorities of all Stevens arms—Rifies, Shotguns, immensely is “Guns and Gunning,” by Dan Beard. All about game—hunt- ing and shuoting—camping—the care of a gun, etc, Sent postpaid for 20c, paper cover, or 30c, bound in cloth and stamped in gilt. If you don’t find Stevens Arms at your dealer's, wewill supply youdirect express prepaid, ou receipt of catalogue price. J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL CO., 805 Grove St., Chicopee Falls, Mass. She Goplev’Prints Long recognized as the best art reproductions made in America, ‘All that an artist could ask,” says Elihu Vedder. Abbey's new decora tions among the latest additions. Subjects ua- obtainable in any other form — which adds to their individuality and distinction as Christmas Gifts At art stores or sent on approval, ILLUS: TRATED CATALOG, 300 illustrations (p:ac- tically a handbook of ‘American Art), is seat for 25 cents (stamps accepted), This cost is deducted from purchase of Prints themselves, which range in price from go cents to $20. The Burne-Jones Hope above, copyright 1906 by CURTIS & CAMERON o.2 Fats. fs%y BOSTON und ro Coundy B ofer tb tearfu’ good for icbooks.com