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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The large advertisement for Stewart Straight Rye whiskey (center-right) uses a photograph showing diplomats or representatives from different nations gathered around a dining table, apparently debating international issues ("Open Door," "Neutral Zones," "Spheres of Influence"). The ad's joke is that while these international representatives argue about weighty political matters, they can all agree on Stewart Rye whiskey as a common ground—suggesting the product's universal appeal transcends political divisions. The page also includes smaller items: a Bermuda hotel advertisement (top-left), a travel advertisement for California/Mexico (bottom-left), and unrelated short pieces about waiting lists and photographic men (bottom).

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_ ermudameans the . Hamilton Hotel WHEN you go to Bermuda . live at the Hamilton Hotel. It reflects in its environsthesun- shine, the Hlowers, aad the life of old England and all the com. forts of the most modern Hotel. HAMILTON HOTEL CO., Ltd. (Crawford House, Whit A Marvellous Waiting List (Concluded from page 110) once that if I had only a fair amount of mental capital, I could go ahead faster. I began to long for a million dollars. Do you know,itcame. I knew I had it by a sense of increased power. To-day [ama mental capitalist. I have bought out one of the old subscribers and am getting the Mental Life every week, although I wasn’t due to have it for twenty years. I have paid back my loan with interest and am rapidly ab- sorbing all the good in the third har- monic plane. If I hadn't looked at that bottle of Scotch whiskey at that particular mo- ment, I would still have been on the outside. Gratefully yours, Remember that a bottle of Scotch whiskey is not absolutely necessary. Any bright object will do. Concentrate and send your five. Think of Gee. Ime. Mit. (He will respond, even if you don’t know it.) Phonographic Men men are like phonographs; cvery day they recl off exactly the same records.—Montreal Star. Announcement No. 37 Spend the Winter in California Honolulu or Mexico But no matter where or when you or Your friends contemplate a trip this inter, the Tours Department of the Chicago, Union Pacific and North West- ern Line solicits your correspondence in regard to it, and suggests that you avail yourself of the unlimited services andassistance it is in position to render. S.A. Hutchison, Manager 212 Clark Street, Chicago Diplomary—and Stewart Rye OUR representatives of republics and kingdoms may match their wits over the ‘‘Open Door’’, ‘‘ Neutral Zones’’, ‘‘Spheres of Influence’’, ‘‘ Disarmament’’ and the thousand and one problems that keep the big international pot a boiling— But Anglo-Saxon, Teutonic, Latin and Oriental minds all are in accord respecting one mighty interesting theme when Stewart Straight Rye occupies the centre of the Diplomatic Table. Stewart Straight Rye is absolutely pure. It is aged in wood eight years. It is bottled at the distillery. Stewart Straight Rye is smooth, mellow, palatable, uniform. It is distilled for men of fine discrimination. Try it at your club, or phone your dealer to send a bottle to your home. Stewart Straight Rye is sold by enterprising dealers everywhere. If you are so situated that there is any difficulty in buying locally, write us. We will see that you are promptly supplied. STEWART DISTILLING CO. A Consolidation of Carstairs, McCall & Co. and Carstairs Bros . PHILADELPHIA NEW YORK BALTIMORE An’* Act of Necessity A correspondent writes in to correct a story printed in this paper several days ago. “In that snake story I sent you,” he complains, “you made one mistake [ told you that the snake was twenty feet long and you had it only ten feet long.” We are sorry for this, but the error was unavoidable. We were very much crowded for space when we used the story and we had to cut everything down.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “WE CERTAINLY HAD A CLOSE CALL.” comicbooks.com