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This page consists primarily of **period advertisements**, not political satire. The main content promotes two products: 1. **Calvert's Carbolic Tooth Powder** — a British dental product claiming antiseptic cleaning properties 2. **Marmon "Thirty-two" automobile** — emphasizing its racing achievements and mechanical stability through non-stop endurance runs at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and other competitions The text repeatedly stresses the car's "stability to endure" hard service, supporting this claim with documented racing victories (Vanderbilt, Atlanta, New Orleans races). A reader's letter discusses **Henry George's "Single Tax" theory** — a late-19th-century economic proposal advocating a single tax on land value to distribute wealth more equitably. The writer argues it wouldn't harm successful individuals (Caruso, Edison) but would benefit workers and farmers. There is **no cartoon or satire** on this page — it's a typical early-20th-century magazine layout mixing advertisements with reader correspondence.

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“Well begun is half done.” You add considerably to the value of your tooth cleaning by using CALVERT’S Carbolic Tooth Powder, ‘The popular English dentifrice—which gives such a thorough antiseptic cleansing to the entire surface of the teeth that are used, and a bright polish, too, for those that show, Senta at your druggists. Sample and Booklet free from Park & Tiford, ¥.C.Calvert &Co., Calverts Has Amazed Motordom by Its Long Non-Stop Mile-a-Minute Runs Few cars endure the tremendous strain of a mi'e-a-minute speed for any great distance without stopping. In the Vanderbilt, the Marmon “Thirty-two” stock car won the Wheatley Trophy, going the 190 miles in 190 minutes, without a stop. Inthe Atlanta Races, the Marmon “Thirty-two” stock car won the 120-Mile Race in 109 minutes, without a stop. In the New Orleans Races, the Marmon “‘Thirty-two”’ stock car won the 100- Mile Race in 107 minutes (on a one-mile circular track), without a stop. From the inception of its racing career, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Races last August, the Marmon’s superb stability—even more than its speed—has made it a prominent factor in strenuous long distance events. The same stability has been proved in Glidden Tours and other reliability contests, year after year. No other car has ever proved so convincingly, by every known test, that it has the STABILITY to endure and satisfy under hard service. The Marmon is manufactured (not merely assembled) by a company known to buyers of high-grade machinery, the world over, for more than fifty years. One chassis only—the ‘‘Thirty-two’—with option of body. 32-40 H. P. Weight 2300 Ibs. Complete, high-class equipment. $2650. Nordyke & Marmon Co. (Estab. 1851) Indianapolis, Ind. i, Dorchester bt Atlantic Monthly for July, makes a statement that shows he has never read Henry, George. The single tax is the simplest theory every submitted to hu- man comprehension. Its foundation is simple justice, unadulterated by charity, love or altruism, Its result would be the just distribution of wealth to its pro- ducer. It would not reduce the earnings of Caruso, Edison or Joseph H. Choate adollar; probably it would increase them ; but it would give every fireman who shoveled coal, every farmer who raised cotton, corn or hogs, every negro who picked cotton, every boy who trapped nuskrats, just what he earned, Gradu- ally, and without any violent dislocation of present conditions, it would withdraw surplus wealth from those who did not earn, or—and this is a most important consideration and far-reaching in its ef- fects—could not successfully manage it. Its essential and irreconcilable differ- ence from socialism is that it would develop the personal equation as it has never been developed in the known his- tory of mankind, beyond the furthest imaginings of Moses when he stood on the mountain looking toward the prom- ised land of future civilizations. If love, courage and wisdom are stronger than selfishness, fear and igno- rance, it will make the world better. It would take the wonderful analytical brain that isolated the “ Eternal Values "* to even guess at its effect on human de- velopment. And, Lire, how much you could do to advance it. If the fairy god- mother came to me now with her one wish I really believe I would say, “Make Lire a Single Taxer.’’ This let- ter is not written by a visionary crank, but by a man who saw the partial work- ing of Henry George’s theory on the (Continued on page 18) From Our Readers (Continued from page 12) your latest evidence being the editorial page of November 11; but on another page of the same issue you place the Single Tax in the category with Chris- tian Science, Pragmatism, New Thoug! and Socialism as subjects difficult of comprehension as compared with the claims of the suffragettes. This statement would seem strange were it not for the fact that as clever a man as David Buf- fem, in a remarkably able article in the Ask Your Dealer. If he hasn't it we will send express prepaid on receipt of Price, $27 Jony Browwtya, international authority, states that this S: +“the last word in Repeating Shotguns.” The fastest shooter, The hardest shooter. Put together or taken down In as many seconds as the next best takes minutes. SAFETY — ACCURACY -— SPEED —-SIMPLUICITY—-SIX LIGHTNING SHOTS Solid breech, hammerless, can't clog. New shooters get bigzer scores because the Stevens is a natural pointer. Points for the Sharpshooter & Hunter If you want expert information on Shi ting, Hunting or Trap Shooting, write us a postal telling which subject interests you the most, By return mail comes our letter giving you this valuable information, besides tho big Stevens Gun Hook 20? illustrations and 160 pages about Rifles, Shotguns, Pistols and Rifle Teloscopes. Write to-day. J. STEVENS ARMS @ TOOL COMPANY, Dept. 191, Chicopee Falls, Mass. comicbooks.com