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This page is primarily **advertisements** with one brief humorous anecdote at bottom right. The ads promote: - **Jericho Horn** (car signal device) - a motor accessory - **Tooth Soap** by C.H. Strong & Co. - a dental product - **Whiting Bond, Linen and Ledger Papers** - business stationery - **Panolas cigars** - with a free sample offer - **La Reclama Cuban factory** cigars The small cartoon/anecdote (bottom right) depicts a hotel landlord shutting guests out at 8pm, demanding they retire. A guest protests being locked out, claiming it's only 8:15. The landlord insists on his rules. The humor lies in the absurd strictness—the humorous complaint appears in *Saturday Evening Post*. This reflects early 1900s boarding house/hotel culture where proprietors maintained rigid schedules, presenting this as satirical commentary on overly authoritarian innkeepers.

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SAFER MOTORING YOUR car will soon be in commission now, as the sotocing sersoe is fait approaching: -IF you have Tlready ‘decided that your SIGNALLING DEVICE hall Be A Jericho Horn Gf then you have chosen wisely and well. If, on the other hand, you are still casting about for the signal of highest efficiency, then we say to you, in all sincerity, that you can make no mistake in fixing upon JERICHO THE PERFECT MOTOR CAR SIGNAL That ‘Warns Without Offence” Obtainable at a moderate cost. Attached with ease, at the rear of the muffler. Operated by the exhaust, under pedal control. Costs nothing whatsoever for up-keep. A perfectly simple, yet thoroughly efficient device. is signal is entirely “ different’’; and it is this difference, particularly as regards its mellow, mod- ulant tone, that renders it safe, sane and effective. Better still, its tone is exceptionally pleasing to everybody. It is easily remembered and readily associated with an automobile. This fact insures prompt action on the part of the pedestrian and safety to all concerned. The sales of the past year attest to its merits; the activity of the opening season demonstrates its popularity. JERICHO is made in four sizes, selling at $7.00, $8.00, $9.00 and $10.00—complete There isa size to fit your car, Your dealer has it The Randall-Faichney Co. BOSTON, U.S. A. Write us today for Booklet 11 on Acces- sories you need for your car “YES, AND WOULD YOU BELIEVE THAT THIS LITTLE CHAP IS GREATER THAN A xinc?" Wonderful oe . In its action Cleanses, whitens and heals in one action. Takes care of the whole mouth, neutralizing the acids that destroy the teeth and cause discoloration. An antiseptic foam unlike other dentifrices. A cake in a metal box, cannot break or spill. Any druggist, 25 cents—or sent on receipt of price. C. H. Strong & Co. CHICAGO Relative Values An Indianapolis business man was marooned, on election night in 1904, in an Illinois village. He could not get out that night. Naturally, he was in- terested in the election. He wanted to find out whether Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Parker had won He began investigat- ing and discovered that the telephone girl quit at six o'clock and that the tele- graph agent at the station knocked off work after the morning. train went through, which was rarely later than six Pp. m. They are hand-made with a LONG, rich, fragrant Havana filler and fue Imported Sumatra wrapper. N every respect they are equal to the best cigar retailed for 10c. OUR price for Panolasis but $4.50 Per 100, delivery prepaid, because we are manufacturers and sell—BY MAIL—from_ Factory-to-Smoker- Direct at strictly WHOLESALE Prices. The Panolas will prove our claim that La Reclama cigars are double the value of those sold over cigar store counters. Simply write on your business letterhead, or on your employer's, and say: ‘Send me the sample box of Panolas offered Free of Charge." En- close 10¢ to cover postage and pack- ing ; also mention strength desired. WITH our complete line, ranging from $3.75 to $16.00 per 100, we can please the most exacting smoker, reduce his cigar expense and always GUARANTEE complete satisfac- tion. Put our cigars to the test. Write for the Panolas TO-DAY. Ri €. ®6. ug. par. OF HIS trade-mark is important to busi- ness men. It identifies Whiting Bond, Linen an nese In the business world they are unhesitatingly accepted as standard. Each style in the large variety of Whiting busi- ness papers is made to meet a ieee purpose. It will be found exactly right in texture, strength, surface and color. Inquire of your stationer. | WHITING PAPER COMPANY New York Chicago —Philadeiphia Boston Mills; Holyoke, Mass. At eight o'clock the landlord shut up the hotel, telling his guest to take the room at the head of the stairs when he was ready to go to bed. Ne news was to be had and the business man went to bed, that being all he could do Next morning he was awakened hy the heavy tread of boots on the plank: side- walk. He threw up the window and asked the passer-by: “Say, who was elected?" “T was, by heek!’? replied the man proudly, “Third term for constabie.”"— Saturday Evening Post. comicbooks.com