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This page is primarily **advertising**, with brief satirical pieces interspersed. The main content includes: **Advertisements:** - Londonderry Lithia Spring Water (promoting health benefits) - Gortez Cigars ("For Men of Brains") - Blue-jay Corn Plasters (the largest ad, promoting a wax-based corn treatment) - Caron Bitters, Allen's Foot-Ease, Great Bear Spring Water **Satirical Humor Pieces:** - "The Coming Car": jokes about transit payment methods progressing toward the absurd "pay-as-you-sit" - "Flattery": a barber anecdote where a vain customer denies needing a haircut for 30 years - "Utilizing the Mirror": a dentist observes his female patient examining her hair in the mirror rather than her newly-filled teeth, stereotyping women's vanity The page reflects early-20th-century advertising and gentle social satire, with gender stereotypes (women fixated on appearance) presented as humor.

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& ‘LIFE. you recall that summer's day when, hot and dry, you at waters geal rege da ugh the rocks ? That was the time you may el a drink la ing spring water. ‘Londonderry comes to you just as sparkling, palatable and 1 at particular about Darcie eer tego semana omy tec rd Heer snd other stses ff dee and locally, write ‘oil that yeu are suppli LONDONDERRY LITHIA SPRING WATER CO., 1 eat ae og wid pethaps even more pure, for we are ling, sealing, ete. You'll find it a three, table sizes. Plain 1D) in half gallon bot- If you have aiftheutey obtaining Londonderry lied at regular retail prices. Nashua, N. H. en ao The Coming Car The pay-as-you-enter is common enough, To it slight attention we give. The latest—unless the report is a bluf— Is the pay-as-you-leave. Two steps in the proper direction are these, The ideal soon will be hit— The car that we're certain will everyone please Is the pay-as-you-sit. —Boston Transcript. Make This Year Brighter. Send 25 cents for sample bottle Money back if not pleased und satisfied. Caron Bitters. Gee. Blache & Co..78 Broad St., New York Gen Distrs. Flattery One must be a genius to be a success- ful barber. One is reminded of the tonsorial artist who operated in the same village for fifty years and never made a mistake. In ‘is early days a handsome boy got into his chair. “Shave, sir?” asked the barber. “You flatter m: laughed the youth, “You flatter me. No, I can only use a hair cut.’ Years passed. In fact, thirty years did it. The same man came to the same barber. “Hair cut, sir?” asl “You flatter me! “ No—only a shave. —Cleveland Plain-Dealer. d the barber. sighed the m: a Pinch, use ALLENS FOOT-EASE. Thith ith Very Thilly! A writer who, perhaps, means well, suggests that “The Beth Book” might be followed by “The Thecond Beth Book" and “The Nekth Beth Book.” Thith ith the wirth thuggestion we have theen lately in regard to Bookth. —Woman’s Home Companion. Consoling “You will be the victim of a fatal accident.” Good gracious!" “Calm yourself. It won't happen until the end of your life."—Péle Méle. GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER 50 cents per case of 6 class xtoppered bottles Tepe Happy Marriage Miss Eel: 1 wis you wovr Depends largely on a know!- GLIDE Mol YOU HOP ALTOGETHER edge of the ‘whole truth “ ” cer OF (hey hole truth. 700 MUCH FoR THE “ wosTON. relation to life and health. This knowledge does not come intelligently of itself, hor correctly froth ordinary, every-day sources. A SEXOLOGY (lustrated) , Mf.D., imparts in a clear, Utilizing the Mirror dentist filling a lady patron's k teeth, When he had finished with the first tooth he handed the lady a hand mirror that she might sce the result for herself. Then he went on with his task, repeating this performance with the eteage a Ps ed Bho mirror after cach tooth was filled. Hinge lsige a rather st Finally, when the job was completed and she had handed back the mirror with thanks, he said: “Well, madam, how do they look?” “How do what look?" she returned. “The teeth I just filled.” “Ob, I forgot about the teeth, exclaimed, reaching for the hand glass. by William 1. Walling, A.M wholesome way in one volume! wledce 1 Man Should Have. Should, Knowledce a Knowledge n Yor Knowledze a Mother Allin one volume, ‘Write for “Other Feo on Puritan Pub. ‘Co. 776 Perry’ Bids "Phila. “What did you look at cach time I gave you the mirror?” “My hair."—Pittsburgh Press. MEN 1GA BRAINS GARS “MADE AT al WEST A teaspoonful of Abbott's Bitte: makes an ideal appetizing tonic agcts.instamps. C. W. Abbott & No More Paring on 50,000,000 Corns wax gently loosens the corn. In 48 hours the whole corn comes out, root and all. No soreness, no discomfort. You feel nothing at all. People who pare corns get just a few days’ relief. To get it they run the con- stant risk of infection. Some time ago a chemist discovered how to completely end a corn. He made a wax—the B & B wax—which forms the heart of a Blue-jay plaster. This little plaster has since then removed fifty million corns, The millions who use Blue-jay never suffer It is applied in a jiffy, or wait. They get rid of the corn in two and the corn pain ends days. atonce. Then the B&B Get Blue-jay and prove it, as they did. A ln the picture {s the soft B & B wax. It loosens the corn. B protects the corn, stopping the pain at once. C wraps around the toc. It is narrowed to be comfortable. Dis rubber adhesive to fasten the plaster on. Blue-jay Corn Plasters Sold by Druggists—15c and 25¢ per package Sample Mailed Free. Also Blue-jay Bunion Plasters (156) Bauer & Black, Chicago and New York, Makers of B & B Handy Package Absorbent Cotton, etc. go | did awf thin whe lam not T man tor in N M and age an | shri moat Di very ing cried comicbookiee 2