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This Life magazine page is primarily **advertising and humorous anecdotes** rather than political cartoons. The main content consists of brief joke columns under "Our Foolish Contemporaries," featuring reprinted humor from other sources. These include period jokes about: - **Banking and race**: A deliberately unflattering dialect story about Black depositors in Georgia, reflecting early 1900s racist stereotypes common in mainstream publications - **Marriage and time**: Conventional romantic humor about courtship - **Lawyers**: A joke about a verbose attorney's tedious courtroom manner The advertisements include Hunter Baltimore Rye whiskey and Pooley Company furnishings. **The satire here is mild and social** rather than political—poking fun at human foibles (forgetfulness, long-windedness, banking confusion) using exaggerated characters. By modern standards, the racial dialect humor is offensive and emblematic of how casually dehumanizing stereotypes appeared in "respectable" publications of that era. The page reflects Life's format as a general-interest humor magazine mixing advertisements with light comic content.

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“TP RRE* PACA SAGA SACD EAGAGACA GAGA EAGAGA GRE GRGA SAGAS GRGROAENG | rd ¥ . HUNTER BALTIMORE RYE IS OF MELLOW TONE AND PERFECT QUALITY. ITS UNIQUE AND UNIFORM CHARAC- TER DISTANCES ALL COMPETITION GUARANTEED UNDER THE PURE FOOD LAW Sold ot all fretclase cafes and by WM. LANAHAN & SON, Balthe DDE DEICIDE DDS PRO MNGALAS AOA: IDE DERG DS 9 ROO ONORE bank,” said the cashier, after looking over the books. . “Yes, I has,” insisted the visitor, put ten dollars in here six months er go.” “Why, man, yuh shure is foolish, De intrist done et dat up long er go. —Chicago Daily Sketch. “It’s three months since I saw you last,” (Oct. C. Blache & Co.. 78 Broad 5 Gent Diets: The one who her plainly states. Says she: “Can that be possible? It's awful how time aviate —Harper's Weekly. A Washington man inadvertently over- heard some tender exchanges between a At Lesson in Banking recently betrothed couple, who, it <i chanced, attended some social function The ng Hegrocs of a Georgia town at the national capitol to which the started a bank and invited persons of aforesaid Washingtonian was also asked. their race become customers. One It was on the stairs that the happy day a darkey, with shoes run down at pair chose to talk the matter over, and it the h lus over one shoulder was from the recesses of an alcove, and a cotton shirt, showed up at the whither he had gone to get his coat, that bai the Washingtonian proved to be the acci dental recipient of the couple's confi cence, “Just think, dear heart!" exclaimed the young woman. “You proposed to me but twenty-four hours ago!" “Yes, sweetheart,” came in thrilling tones from the fortunate man, “and it seems as though it were but yesterday!” —Lippincott's. Overheard on the Stairs « here,” he said, “1 want mah ten dollahs.” “Who is yuh?” asked the cashier. “Mah name's Jim Johnson, an’ I wants n dollars” ‘uh ain't go’ no money in dis here An Important Distinction A long-winded, prosy counselor was arguing a technical case recently before one of the judges of the Superior Court. He had drifted along in such a desultory way that it was hard to keep track of what he was trying to present, and the judge had just vented a very suggestive POOLEY Ce. ad yeT sincerely trust that I am not un- duly trespassing on the time of this DECORATIONS court," said the lawyer, with a suspicion of sarcasm in his voice. Reno Relatives. “You say you're a cousin of Mr. Gil seven times removed.” “Goodness! How do you keep tra: My fourth husband marric:! his third wife.”—Cleveland Leader, Tue following entry appears in the “ Visitors’ Book” of a hotel in Germany “The living here is good, plain and stantial. So is the waitress.”—Argon @ FURNISHINGS “There is some difference,” the judge Madison Avenue and Thirty - first Street quietly obse ved.“ between trespassing’ NEW YORK on time and encroaching on eternity. Philadelphta > -dger. 1208 In January OvutTinG there's a dog story that’s the real thing. You can locate it by the drawings of C. L. Bull. @There are automobile arti- cles that interest one and pay big returns to the buyer and owner. @And there are a dozen more big, cheerful outdoor stories that help in a practical way. @The January issue is the beginning of OUTING’s most helpful year. @Make sure of next year's best outdoor reading by pur- chasing a year's subscription through your dealer or agent. All news-stands, 25 cents. Liberal offer to local repre- sentatives. Write for terms. OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY, 31S FLFTH AVENUE NEW YoRK CITY Ge will ; little futur await of L fate. a pea force climb being me. possil sult y this | then In tenth chang tions. Ju frien wash