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This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political satire. The dominant feature is a **Welch's Grape Juice advertisement** with an illustrated bunch of grapes. The ad promotes grape juice as a year-round healthful beverage, not merely a summer drink, emphasizing its nutritive value and purity. The left column contains **"Everybody's Column,"** reader letters addressing various topics: a puzzle contest, Senate elections, and wealth distribution—standard editorial fare. Additional advertisements appear for **Mrs. Adair's beauty treatments** and **Spilman Mixture cigarettes**. There's a brief piece on **"Newspaper Honesty"** discussing public confidence in journalism. Overall, this is a typical early 20th-century magazine page mixing light reader commentary with commercial advertising, lacking significant political cartoon content or satire.

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Everybody’s Column (Continued from page 150) Certain Distinctions Der Lire Your December 16 issue contains one Jef the best cartoons (?) I have ever jeer. I refer to the “ Puzzle, find the jean who stole a million,’ on the inside yea hit the nail on the head! The joule is easy, and it teaches us a great lesen. 1am pleased to sce that you are not only amusing people, but that you are sriving to educate them in the affairs if their own government. This is some- ‘Sing new for so-called “ comic papers.’ Of course we all realize with you that the rich man can do no wrong. That peH will straighten the forehead of any fool. When a poor workingman who tas bis living by the use of his brain or muscle wants to forget his troubles be goes to a saloon and gets full of fusel ei called and labeled “ whiskey,’’ and beis given a free ride on a police wagon aed sentenced “ 30 Fifty.’” It's different in the case of our fat frend who fills his bathtub with cham- jrne and floats in it. He never gets ¢mnk. He gets “ SICK '’ and they take tim home in a cab or an auto. They éon't send him to jail. Oh, no! He is a food candidate for the Senate. Bat, dear Lire, you are dealing with aa effect. There is a cause for this concentration of wealth in the hands of the few. The fellow who steals a few dollars is filty of larceny, whilst he who takes a eel million or a railroad line is a finan- Ger and he rides in autos just as your peture shows—he goes to Congress. Isthere a reason? Of course there is. Bot you might call me one of those “tad” social: so I'll stop by con- patulating you. Truly, Nicnotas Krein, From Los Angeles 170K oF Lire: ir:—Your special numbers are at say, We are very anxious out teteon the Coast to know whether or ft you have lost your nerve in regard ur much talked of “ Improper Num- Pull yourselves together and let have it Faithfully yours, . Putup S. Low. Be patient. The delay is due to our tating to do all our work in the dark, to avoid the police. Dangerous Lite Daveuter (reading): In win- ter every animal puts on a new fur coat, Farce: Don't speak so loudly, m ais in the next room.— lorfer Blaetter. Stilrnanf fis L 3100, $2.28; Plain or cork tipped. If not at your 2 Comoany, Mfrs, 179 Madison St., Chicago Welch's Grape Juice Did you think that Welch’s Grape Juice was merely a summer drink? Not at all. It is a healthful, invigorating beverage at all times and in the Winter when fresh fruit is scarce its freshness and fine grape flavor are all the more appreciated. Drink it when you are thirsty, or when you are tired. Try a glassful just before re- tiring. Serve it asa punch or in any of the forty dainty and delicious ways explained in our free Book of Recipes. Welch’s Grape Juice is a food drink. It contains all of the nutritive value of ripe Con- cord grapes. It is pure, free from all preserv- atives or coloring matter and is non-alcoholic. Only the choicest Concord grapes are used in making it and only the most modern methods employed in preparing it for your table. If your dealer doesn't keep Welch's, send $3.00 for trial dozen pints, express pre- paid east of Omaha. Sam- ple $oz. bottle by mail, 10 cents, The Welch Grape Juice Company Weastfield, N. Y. Newspaper Honesty If there is a marked decline of public confidence in newspapers as_a whole, that fact is of such far-reaching public importance that it deserves the closest PREPARATIONS and TREATMENTS study and investigation. More, newspapers are printed than A WARNING I ever before. More newspapers are read : than‘ ever before. | If the public has lost ‘ i confidence in newspapers, why does it fiat DAIR cautions her patrons against read them in such vast numbers? Merely ations. solutely private, to amuse itself? Merely to pa y the result of years of research in Indiaand the [| the time? Merely to acquire informa- East. Preparations resembling hers have been tion which it distrusts and upon which pat on the market, using the same bot<les, it can place no reliance?—New York jabels and wrappings. Mrs. Adair warns her World patrons that nothing is genuine or original Exactly so. And the reason seems to without the GANESH trade-mark. be that the greed of newspaper owners ean ae for money from advertising has replaced MRS. ADAIR’S renowned Ganesh toilet prepara- ) the old ideals of editorial integrity. fons and original facal treatments. fy , the highest sundard‘ot cretiieace AT HOM And the World: says farther: ? ABROAD for over ten years. They can be obtained We have _ observed eee ae SUS eee ieee shit I oe od have observed, too, that the Bre oe coin St Ne: 3 MW sat sath Be shrewd, practical gentlemen who manage Paris, the great corporations have detected no z Sees s - z marked decline of public confidence in Facial treatments cost $2.50; cost of six treatments newspapers. Their desire to own news- $12.00. Strapping treatment for removing lines and for Papers, to influence newspapers, to sha filling out hollows in the face and neck. Special treat~ the policy of newspapers was never so ment for tired lined eyes, Treatment for spots ant acne. keen as it is now Ladies only received. Mrs. Adair invites correspond- he a eae gnce, she advises gratuitously on all questions relating to Which in itself may be a very excel- auity, Health and Hygiene. | Mail orders have prompt eke dence: attention. Full directions and preparations for Home Jent seauon for tack: of confidence Treatment. Price List Booklet Free “THOCGHT-AWAKEN. MRS. ADAIR, 21 West 38th Street, New York ff] tescimticn ithe nce treasure." say the Critics, -Exquisitely hans etapa Wo pespald, “Address RUBY ARCHER STUDIO, Los Angeles. comicbooks.com