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This page is primarily **advertising and reader correspondence**, not satirical cartoons requiring historical context. The main content includes: 1. **Iver Johnson Revolver ad**: Markets a handgun emphasizing safety for travelers, claiming the hammer doesn't touch the firing pin—a sales pitch for personal protection during an era when carrying revolvers was common travel practice. 2. **Reader letters**: A rural correspondent (Eugene Preston Jackson) places a mail-order catalog purchase with charming dialect, requesting women's clothing items by page number for his wife and daughter. This appears designed to entertain readers with authentic rural American speech patterns. 3. **Letter defending vivisection**: A correspondent defends animal experimentation, challenging a previous Life article's criticism of a device making dogs run at high speeds, arguing the pace (4.3 mph) is reasonable and that scientists aren't merely entertaining themselves. The page reflects early 20th-century concerns: mail-order shopping, accessible firearms, and debates over animal research ethics.

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[CEE TRAVELLERS OU, who travel—is your revolver safe? Safe to hit against car seats—to throw about in your grip—to drop out of the berth? If it's an Iver Johnson, you can enjoy the sense of security it gives you in unfamiliar places, among strangers, without worry about accidental discharge. ‘The famous IVER JOHNSON ste ve REVOLVER hammer or hammerless) is absolutely safe. The only way it can be fired is to pull the trigger. The hammer does not touch the firing- one for yourself at your dealer's —get him to . “Hammor the Hammer It is the finest revolver in the world, Permanent tension wire springs ve wonderful smoothness and speed of action. $6 to SIO Send for Catalog IVER JOHNSON'S: ARMS AND CYCLE WORKS 186 River Street, Fitchburg, Masse From Our Readers (Continued from page 207) these things down to Mrs. John Stork at Goathollow cause she’s my oldest daugh- ter an the little gals dress it's for my only grandchild what lives down there. An the old woman shes goin down to visit our son what lives at Cross Roads an when she gets back and goes into her chest—why wont she be ’sprised to find all them new duds whats I'm gwayn to buy at yer store. Ye can send that coat fer her whats on page 968 what cost $7% cause she aint had a new one fer pert ni ten yer and shes worked hard and is deservin of it. You can send that gray hat to whats on page 10228 whats got all them fixens on it. An say ye felirs can fix it up in one o’ dem swell hat boxes as ye got down there so it'll keep her hustlin and scraping in all that fuzzy paper to find where its at. An say ye can send along that skirt whats on page 2019 and meaaser it on yer biggest woman in the store an if its aint big enough you get a bigger one and measer it on that fat woman what I seed at the post office that time when I took that thar band 0’ mules down to old Saint Louis. I passed by yer store then and I feel kinder as if I now'd some of ye fellers. Yes an ye can send dat waist whats plade on page 20. I allwus liked plade. You'd better try it on the fat woman whats at the post office too. She won't mind, jus tell her she looks like my wife. And say could ye fellers chuck in one of them there corsets some how. Send a big one an some extry strings. I sec on page 299% they air sellin at $1.99 but I'm sendin $2.00 fer it. And say all them there things whats on page 23— Say I'm a little shy about orderin em but here’s $5. what I'm sendin and you jus put in 2 suits of each kind. I think pink bows are a heap prettier. She aint had nuthin’ cept things made o’ flour sacks fer years and years. Well this is all I’m goin to get now. You'll find a check on the bank whats good as gold. Hurry and send em. Yours Euinu Prestox Jackson. Mutevitte, Mo., Pike Co., Juli —_—_ From the Enemy's Camp To tne Epitor or Lire, New York City: Dear Sir.—In an article against vi section in the number of July 7 you stigmatize as an instrument of torture a contrivance for making a dog travel at the rate of 380 feet per minute. This in fact is but 4.3 miles per hour. A dog accompanying a walking man will exceed this pace if allowed to go at will, It is not evident to a layman like myself just what problem the experi- ment detailed later on in the article was intended to solve. Nevertheless, it is not to be supposed that the grave personages who fill professorial chairs engage in such pursuits as a pastime— as small boys pull insects apart. LY salute TOBACCO The best blend of the world’s finest tobaccos. 3 1b. $3.20. gitinct ape prepa UO es Write LPday Chi cage. 208 Keeps the skin soft, smooth and velvety. so thet Summer tan only adds to the natural ¢:: Milkweed Cream Complexion. The pecwicr of Milkweed Cream keep freckles away, relieve and smarting due to sunburn, Milkweed Cream is a smooth emoltieat, distinct therapeutic properties. Therelors kneading are unnecessary. Jost apoly a Probably the berated physiologist was making a study of f in an overworked world s to be thought worthy of scient tention. Is there any class of persons knowt to you who make it their l study these problems of life and & case except those who are so often d& for ¢ Sprair for th efficier (Continued on page 209) Pont Compa { i an ic tolet cx punty 2 Jack Re ‘The Utmost in Cigarettes as mother natutt and humansil can make thea ——_———, Cork Tips or Pat ais comicbooks.com