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This page is primarily **advertising and light humor** rather than political satire. Key elements: **Main Advertisement (Upper Right):** Hammacher, Schlemmer & Co. promotes combination tool benches and cabinets—gift suggestions for men and boys interested in tinkering. The illustration shows two men examining an open tool cabinet. This reflects early 20th-century assumptions about masculinity and gift-giving. **Humor Sections:** - "The English Tongue" presents a brief joke about invisible hair nets—absurdist humor typical of the era - "In the Prevailing Mode" offers whimsical wordplay riddles (if a file called an auger "boring," would a plane "smooth things over?") - "After the Tour" jokes that a traveler passed all nights in county jails rather than hotels **Other Advertisements:** Burrowes Billiard and Pool Tables, and I.W. Harper Whiskey The page contains **no significant political content**—it's a consumer-oriented magazine showcase mixing advertisements with period-typical "clever" wordplay humor meant to entertain middle-class readers.

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There is nothing more fascinating to the average man o- boy than Tinkering with Tools and for the man who is really handy with tools a present of one of our Combination Benches and Tool Cabinets will give him more pleasure than anything else you could select. It is a handsome oak cabinet containing 95 of the finest tools made and when open isa complete bench with vise ready for immediate use. For ore less expert, or tor the boy, we suggest one of our smaller cabinets. All tools are the highest grade standard mechanics’ tools, arranged in con- venient sets for home use. The quality is the same in all, the higher priced cabinets are larger and contain more tools. This Christmas or this Birthday give him one of our Combination Benches and Tool Cabinets, ora smaller Tool Cabinet and a Manual Training Bench, No. 47 21 Tools . . $7.50 a4 and Sevens molecule an to hum; ‘ microbe howled and tried to rule A spry bacterium, An animaleule up and fought A micrococcus gay, And when the germ the monad caught ‘There was the deuce to pay Ad By some demoniac 1 A phantom kicked a goblin Right into smither: And you may well I here declare with might Of lobster I'll ne’er eat agai At twelve o'clock at —Nothon M. Levy in Ni il knocked a spectre cold ns. ve me when ; J 36 Mlustration : ‘cfNo. 100 The English Tongue We are pioncersin the sale of high-grade tooloutfits for home use; every set bearsour guarantecof quality. ‘Order direct (we have no agents) or send for Catalogue No. 2954, HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & co. NEW YORK {iif 4th Ave. and 13th St, HARDWARE, TOOLS AND SUPPLIES Tur, Cusroatex: Do you sell invisible hair nets? Tue Assistant: Yes, madam Tur Customex: Will you let me see one, please ?—The Sketch, In the Prevailing Mode Ii Franklin Park is a beautiful spot, why is Jamaica Plain? Now if the file in a tasping tone If a bullfrog wore a hobble skirt should call the auger a bore, . would the lily pad—and hark? And the monkey wrench a nut from If a thief broke into a drugstore, do the vise, would the plane just smooth you think that the dogwood berk? things o'er? . If a parrot can swear can a crocus If the house was full and the water 00? Enough, ere we all grow ill! dimali, would the /hosel reel ‘all ground This 1s the frivolous sort of thing that 6 And if the waters could speak as the is dubbed a Daffydill. i flow, how would Long Island Sound? —Boston Transcript. If you board a spell at a shore hotel Li is the billow that you pay? After the Tour If a single car weighs several tons, “Well, Binks, I sce you've returned ; | how much does the whole subway? from your thousand-mile tour in New | Can a scavenger be a cheerful man " * said Byones. when he's always in the dumps? said Binks. F If the water pipes in a dance hall “How did you find the hotels en route?” asked Bjones. burst would the dancers use their umes het! “Hotels?” retorted Binks, “We If a Harvard oarsman rows in a shell, didn't stop. a1 any hotéle. We pissed in what docs the salmon roc? all our nights in the county jails the _If no grass is grown in the frozen Herper’s Weekly. De Heretofore not one person in a North, what then does the Eskimo? As thousand had the opportunity to learn If a gun missed fire would a para- Caron! Bitters—Uncqualled for flavoring sliced Fruits, leet, : lay Billiards and Pool with: i fi ont a ‘ and Jellies, Sample on receipt of 2 cents. any or play Billiards and Pool without LG chy This stuff gives me a pain. ‘Oct. C. Blache & Co., 78 Broad St. Y.. Gen'l Distr. Co frequenting a public poolroom, which often means the back room of a saloon. Now, you can purchase a Burrowes = = - = = = j [Home Billiard and Pool Table for your ' own home, at small expense and on very easy terms of payment. ‘The Burrowes Taistes are scientifeally construct \ ed, beautifully Gnished, mathematically correct « : ‘mensions, angles, cushions, pockets, ete., and adapted to the most expert play. It is wonderful how practice on a Burrowes Table perfects your game e e ona ttationary table, The Burrowes Tables are made in ip to 4¥4 $12 DOWN © “THE KIND YOUR GRANDFATHER USED— i neta Fa ~ ; Leading Dealers Thruout America . THE E. T. BURROWES CO. Ba 1205 Center St. Portland, Me. comicbooks.com