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This page is primarily **advertising and humor content** rather than political satire. The main elements include: **Advertisements:** Chiclets gum (prominently featuring sales statistics from 1910), English automobile tours, and Calvert School's home education program dominate the layout. **Humor sections:** Multiple short jokes and anecdotes appear throughout: - "Our Foolish Contemporaries" mocks a man who can't unhook his wife's dress - "The Fast Flying Red Devil" jokes about a motorist demanding extradition papers for a speeding car - Various one-liners about marriage, learning, and domestic life **Notable cartoon:** "Gran'paw's Eyesight Ain't What It Used to Be" appears at top right—a visual gag about aging vision. The page reflects early 1910s concerns (automobiles, education reform, marital humor) but contains **no significant political commentary**. It's essentially a magazine of light entertainment and consumer goods targeting middle-class readers.

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alWEAES © DURING I9IO, 2.623.412 CHICLETS WERE SOLD EACH DAY hiclets REALLY DELIGHTFUL Che Dainty Mint Covered Candy Coated Chewing Gum Strong in flavor, but not offensive. A delicate morsel, refreshing the mouth and throat and allaying after-dinner or after-smoking distress. The refinement of chewing gum for people of refinement. It’s the peppermint—the frue mint. = For Sale at all the Better Sort of Stores S¢ the Ounce and in S¢,/0¢ and 25¢ Packets SEN'SEN CHICLET COMPANYarvesrevtas reeset wore GRAN’PAW’S EYESIGHT AIN'T WHAT IT sep To BF ENGLISH TOURS — By AUTOMOBILE " The Fest Flying Red Devil citizen rushed imto a PRIVATE CARS. oe WHERE ed PLEASE. Boston police station Saturday after- | moron’ TOURING OLMPANY, noon, and shouted for vengeance 43 Pembroke Place, - Liverpool, England. “The automobile that hit me five min- Cables—" Travelling.” utes ago was No. 41144,” he sputtered. “T can prove that he was exceed- There was a man in our town, Who’ waa not always wise. A Happy Marriage ing the speed limit, and 1 want—I— want——" 3 vi " Depends largely o1 - 5, ” He bought his wife a party gown, Denends latzely 00 8 know: “You want a warrant for his arrest? All full of hooks and eyes. aoout self and sex and their “Wa 4 I. rrant nothing! What good would ii relation to life . Andi when be bad it all hooked xr) Tile knowlege sors net a warrant do me at the rate he was With all bis might and main, 4 come intelligertiy of itself, going? I want extradition papers.” F Bor currect! He wondered if he ever could ed “an ten ordinary —Boston Traveller. Unhook that gown again. —London Opinion. SEXOLOGY He Knew utratea Tracer: Now, Tommy, what is a He Wanted to Learn How by William H. Wailing, A.M. M.D. imparts in a clear, hypocrite? Buxctan: Don’t shoot me, sir. wholesowe way in one vi Tommy: A boy that comes to school LOUSEROLDER: On one Sopeien. oe : with a smile on his face.—Lippincott’s. you tell me how you got in withou waking my wife—Pele Mele. . Mave. A Welccme Relief . “There is one time of year when I __ On Second Washing 3 ae really enjoy work.” “T've just washed out a suit for my j 3 “And when is that?” little boy—and now it seems too tight Allin one volume. IMustrated. $2, postpaid. F i ¥ 8 ‘Write tor “Other People's Opinions" and Table of Contents. For two or three days after coming for him.” ‘i ‘ back from vacation.”—Pittsburg Post. “He'll fit it all right, if you'll wash Puritan Pub. Co., 776 Perry Bldg., Phila., Pa. the boy."—Meggendorfer Blactter. Ie Oe ee on SCHOOL AT HOME ing a large fortune, decided to set up a Ee ey ere alr Educate Your Child at Home seller and ordered 10,000 volumes, all to be as fine and handsome as possible. Under the direction of “Very good, sir,” said the bookseller. “Till give you nothing but standard CALVERT SCHOOL, Inc. bots: T suggest that half of them be Established 1897 bound in russia and half in morocco “No, no,” said Jacob Cash. “I'm an A unique system by means of which children from kindergarten to | 2 yeas out-and-out protectionist, Iam. Let ‘em of age may be educated entirely at home by the best modern methods all be bound in America under the guidance and supervision of a school with a national reputation Caron Bitt Jnexcetied wi nonade, Soda, Gin, for training young children. For information, write, stating age of child,to SELES Wache & Con t8 Urond Ser NOY cesnt Batis CALVERT SCHOOL, 4 West Chase St., Baltimore, Md. V.M. Hillyer, A. B. (Harvard,) Headmaster comicbooks.com