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This page is primarily a **table of contents and advertising**, not a political cartoon. The left side advertises the **Basline Autowline**—a steel rope product for towing automobiles, marketed as emergency roadside assistance for motorists. The main content area announces **The September Scribner magazine**, listing its featured articles. These include letters from novelist George Meredith, an article on French colonial history in America by President Finley, coverage of the Chicago Convention by journalist Richard Harding Davis, and a memoir piece by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge about his Boston boyhood. The page also includes a lengthy text passage (visible but not fully legible) discussing the Battle of Bunker Hill, apparently a humorous historical reflection by Bill Nye, a popular 19th-century American humorist. **No political satire or cartoon is present**—this is a standard magazine advertisement and contents page from the early 1900s.

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HELP FOR AUTOS Be ready for any emergency. Basline Autowline is 30 ft. of 5-16 flexible steel rope. It weighs only 6 pounds but can tow a 4,000-Ib, car up a 20% grade. BASLINE AUTOWLINE Coils Up Flat Under the Cushion —till you need it, And then you do need it! Don't crowd and soil your car with bulky manila Buy clean, compact i $3.75 at your favori ne pulled the pr a ereck on the last Glidden Tour. The Autowline cir- FREE fice tile the wicks story in pictures, Write for it now. Sent free. Broderick & Bascom Rope Co. 809 North Second Street ST. LOUIS, MO. thrown up during the and where the monument now stands. he British landed a large foree under Generals Howe and Pigot, and at 2 P.M the Americans were reinforced by Gen- crals Warren and roy. Warren was of a literary turn of mind and during the battle took his hat off nd recited a little poem beginning Stand, braves! General the grownd's your own, my Will ye ive it up to slaves?” A man who could deliver promptu. and im- address an extemporancous like that in public, and while there was such a bitter feclir part of the audience, must have been a good In our great fratricidal strife twenty years ago, the inferiority of our generals in this respect was pain- fully noticeable, We did not have a ddress his troops Several of od in blank of hostility on the under who in rhyme to save neek them were pretty verse, flank that it was not just k over to posterity and afterward, Colonel Prescott’s statu where he is supposed to he told they saw the whites of the enemy's eyes. now stands tood when men to reserve their fire ull T who have examined the cast-iron ock weapon used in those days will a it that this order was wise. Those guns were injurious to health, of course, when used to exces: or immediately fatal At the time of the third attack by the British the Americans were out of am- munition, but they met the enemy with clubbed muskets, and it was found that one end of the rebel fint-lock was about as fatal as the other, if not more so. Boston still mects the invader with its club, The Mayor says to the citizens of Dut not necessarily : “Wait till you can sce the whites of the visitor's eyes, and then go for him with your clubs.’ Then the surrenders. 1 hope that_ many years may pass before it will a necessary for us to soak this fair land in ain be Bunker Hill, and it was certainly a great stroke of enterprise to have the battle located there. ker Hill is dear to every American heart, and there none of us who would not have cheer fully gone into the battle then if we had are known about it in time.—From “ Re- marks by Bill Nye.” Copyright 1886 by Edgar WW Reprinted by permission of M.W. Hazen & Co. British blood. The boundaries of our land are now more extended, and so it would take more blood to soak it. 1 has just reason to be prow The September ScPIDNer Letters of George Meredith In this second instalment are included letters to John Morley, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others. They are delightful revela- tions of the great novelist’s many-sided sympathies and interests, and of his opinions upon important events of his time. \The first of President FINLEY’S articles on The French in the Heart of America The story of the coming of Cartier and Champlain, and what followed ‘In the Wake of the Griffin,” the little vessel in which La Salle first sailed through the Great Lakes. The Chicago Convention By RICHARD HARDING DAVIS By Senator HENRY CABOT LODGE Some Early Memories —nis boyhood days in Boston, and impressions of some famous men of the time. The Last Frontier, by E. ALEXANDER POWELL, |F.R.G.S.—The story of Rhodesia, Witching Hill Stories England’s great colony in equa- torial Africa. The Locked Room HENRY VAN DYKE’s The Wedding Ring |A story of French Canada The last of E. W. HORNUNG’S $3.00 a year 25 cents a number CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK comicbook $.co