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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The dominant content is a full-page advertisement for the "Richmond" Suction Cleaner—an early electric vacuum cleaner weighing only 10 pounds, marketed as revolutionary compared to heavy machines of the era. The left column contains an unrelated letter from a physician critiquing medical quackery, and a cigarette advertisement for Makaroff Russian Cigarettes featuring a stylized figure. There is **no political cartoon** on this page. The vacuum cleaner images show people using the device in domestic settings—typical product demonstration photography from the early 20th century. The humor is purely commercial, emphasizing that even someone who could afford brooms could now afford this "best suction cleaner made."

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N LAKE GEORGE The Sagamore Hotel June-October “EmpbaticallyUnique”’ t Krumbholz, Sagamore, N.Y. “A Postage Stamp Puts the “RICHMOND Suction Cleane in Your Home ‘OU see here an Electric Suction Cleaner which weighs but fen pounds nstead of sixty. “The “Ricumonp” Suction Cleaner enables you now, for the first time, to clean by electricity, without lugging a sixty or = . . eighty pound machine from room to room—up and down stairs. It repre- ae Anis GE Aiaich 1909 sents as great an advance over heavy weight vacuum cleaners as these rn “appeared an iter entitied se cleaners represented over brooms. For it is the only really portable Litle Confession,” in which a man Suction Cleaner, nas quoted as claiming to have sprayed the poisons of diphtheria, smallpox, arlet fever or consumption into the noses or throats of his patients under the pretense of treating them for . Five Factories: Two at Uniontown, Pa ctarrh, and to have shown that the Ose nt Nernich, ConkOne ot Rodan corresponding diseases could not thus } Wis.—One at Milwaukee, Wis. 0 e cl ent: whi Manufacturers of ““Ricnonp" be produced. In the comment which pdfanufactarers of (;RicmMonn, followed the quotation it was stated ‘nameled Ware, Hath Tubs that this man was a true “ scientist,” avatories, “R nd it was implied that such acts are Makers and “Ric H MON Db" Stationary Vacuum Cleaning to be expected of “advocates of vivi- cection.” ‘Thus the incident. st Plants, a sample of the misdeeds of m From a Physician Manufactured Exclusively for THE ‘Ricnmonp’ SALES CO. By The McCrum-Howell Co. Park Ave. & 4st St., New York Anyone Who Can Afford Brooms Can scientists. ‘ . Now Afford the Best Suction Cleaner Made It seemed to me desirable that the — xtual relation of this offender to the medical profession should be investi- nied, for the accusation is so grievous it should not be allowed to stand All that any Vacuum Cleaner or Suction Cleaner can do, the “RICHMOND” doe: And it does, besides, some things which no other machine can do. You can, for example, use the “RicHMoND" Suction Cleaner with or without hose. The hose attachment slides off and with the same ease that your foot slides into an casy slipper. Slip on the hose, and the ten pound “RicHMoND" with its six te Tnvestigation special cleaning tools (all furnished without extra cost) cleans hangings, walls, books, bedding, upholstery, clothing, hats, unde neath radiators, furniture, ct. It is also supplied with a’ special attachment for hair drying, pillow renovating, etc. Slip off the hose and you have a floor machine which weighs no more than a common carpet sweeper. The every day work of rug and carpet cleaning—-of cleaning hard wood floors, tile floors, hearths, bath-rooms, porches, etc., can be done either with or without the hose. A Postage Stamp the Only Cost required to put this ten pound cleaner in your home. Just send us your name and address and we will have delivered to your door without one penny of expense to you—without obligation of any kind—a guaranteed “RicHMOND" Suction Cleaner. You can prove for yourself in your own home just what this will do for you. "But write today and we will include with our reply, a handsome illustrated booklet. The “Ricumonp" Sales Co. Sole Selling Agents New York City, N. Y. 160-C Broadway ateivy showed the author to be a Wisconsin its consequence, and it never has pre- That’ iarity— Who peculiarity | doctor who is regarded generally by vented, nor ever can prevent, a case ats yours? the medical men of that State as a of smallpox.” M AKAROFF RUSSIAN CiIGARETS Rr YOUR DEALER'S arly everybody smokes them now ubleseme crank. In his two books, Another beg: «ls It Is and Fads in the Practice of “The appendicitis operation is one Medicine, he makes his position in of the foulest of crimes, unnecessary medical matters quite clear, as the fol- in every instance, and the operators lowing quotations will show: ow that to be true.” In another In As It Is he makes ten indict chapter in the same work he says: ments, the first of which reads thus: “Dr. J. B. Murphy, of Chicago, if T “Vaccination is the Prince of htly informed, has a hobby for ds and a Crime. It is in every instance injurious and murderous in (Continued on page 951) 9