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This page is primarily **advertising** for luxury cigarettes and other consumer products, interspersed with brief humor pieces. The main advertisement for "Egyptian Deities" cigarettes employs orientalist marketing: it claims Turkish tobacco is hand-selected by armies of workers in mountain regions, then expertly blended in Egypt—suggesting exotic luxury and meticulous craftsmanship justifying premium pricing (10 for 25 cents). The copy emphasizes exclusivity: even a Sultan couldn't obtain finer cigarettes. The humor section "Our Foolish Contemporaries" satirizes racial attitudes: a story about a Black laundress trained at Hampton Institute (a historically Black school) includes the punchline that "they teach no languages there"—mocking both the school and suggesting the worker's limited education despite formal training. Other advertisements promote White Rock table water and Richard's Poor Almanack. The page reflects early 20th-century marketing strategies combining exotic appeal with implicit class distinctions, alongside period-typical racial stereotyping presented as humor.

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Fit fora Sultan’ s Siesta The costliest tobaccos that Turkey grows are picked over leaf by leaf. ‘Then these few choice leaves from a dozen localities are blended in Egyptian Deities. The Sultan himself, if he paid for their weight in gold, could obtain no finer cigarettes. Egyptian Deities “The Utmost in Cigarettes’’ There is only one brand of cigarettes | few leaves which have the most exquisite for men who want the best. aroma. One man, in one day, will pick out two To secure it, we cover all Turkey with | pounds fit for Egyptian Deities. leaves: The resulting tobacco costs us fifty | times as much as some Turkish tobaccos. an army of men to pick out the choicest ‘They go to the foot of the mountains, , * oy a A hese selected leaves, from sixty lots, where the soil is fertilized by the mountain | Z " are mixed to secure our blend. washings. | eee a te ‘ sad . . This care and skill, this experience and There they find the finest tobaccos | these facilities, are things that no man can grown in the Turkish empire. imitate, So there are no cigarettes in all the From this tobacco, men pick out those | world to compare with Egyptian Dieties. 10 for 25 cents. Cork Tips or Plain Every box of * TIAN DEITIES" bears the fac:simile signature of S, ANARGYROS. Factory and Depot: New York City A Corporation Tur world is making head quite as fast allow.—Philistine. “GNTEMPORAR ES Washing Without Languages “Yes, I was taught laundry work at Hampton School.” “So you went to Hampton, did you? It's a Will you never, Never, ever Come my way? Rita, Rita, When you mita Chap li You should copper Such oppor ‘ranity Rita, Rita, Why, pray, trita Fellow so? Won't you ever, Ever, never Not say: “No All There but the T: Dressed in the Jatest_ and motor-cycli: . with go; the motor cyclist gayly toot-tooted Zoo. enly he sl nd said a am I right for the boy 5 so. stran be some new anin ly had a tail! Every Reason “Why does your new baby ery so “ Say, if all your teeth were out, y« and your legs so weak that you couldr self.”’—Lippincott's mevitte, N. C.r The fou th, Tue Masor, the as the stupidity of its professional reformers will “THAT SETTLES IT! NO MORE GAS BILLS TO PAY.” The new colored laundress had just returned the week's wash. I the lady of the apart- oe ment “Delia, these clothes are done up very well indeed."" very good school.’* Oh yes it's a very good school,"* replied the “The World’s Best Table Water’’ dusky washerlady judicially. “ But they teach no languages there.’ York Times. Now ready, 1209 edition of the famous “Richard's Poor Almanack,” the hit of 1%¢8, Beautifully bound cad iitustrated humorous book. Sent for 10c. GREAT BEAT SPRING WATER “Its purity has made tt famous” Address White Rock, Flatiron Bldg.. New York City. comicbooks.com