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This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political satire. The main elements are: 1. **Manning-Bowman Coffee Percolators ad** (left): Standard product advertisement emphasizing convenience and automatic brewing. 2. **"Indignation" editorial** (center): Commentary on Americans losing moral passion, criticizing Christian preachers as "meek and submissive" and calling for citizens to stand up against injustice. The author advocates for activism while opposing socialism. 3. **P&S Wardrobe Trunks ad** and clothing storage advice (right): Practical household tips. 4. **Chartreuse liqueur ad** (bottom): Large advertisement featuring a legal notice about trademark rights to the product name, following a Supreme Court decision. The page contains **no identifiable political cartoons**—it's a mix of period advertisements and genteel editorial commentary on civic engagement.

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“Ti, Saves the Delicious Aroma”’ Coffee Pot Perce lator No, 6092. Urn Style Perco- lator shown below ectrie heaters. ASTE will never rob your morning coffee of its delicious aroma if it is made in a Manning-Bowman Percolator. Making is simplicity itself. Finely ground coffee should be used and a little /ess than you’d need in an ordinary pot—the right | measure of water for the number of cups you wish, and then—no further thought till you’re seated at table and ready. anning- owman Coffee Percolators work automatically as long as heat is applied. Cotlee is made in this perfect way—starting with cold water—as quickly as in an ordinary coffee pot with hot water, “More than 100 styles and sizes of ‘these collce percolators on the market—in solid copper. nickel plate, aluminum and LIFE Indignation The American people have lost the power or, if not the power, at Icast the inclination, to become indignan T show indignation nowadays is bad The preachers of Christianity reached their goal. We are meek and submissive. We stand ready to turn as y cheeks as we possess, We hate to quarrel, except, perhaps, in the bosom of cur families, We hate to stand up for ourselves before the world. If a strike cours; we want it put outiof sight re= gardless of the principle involved. If a Senator is accused, we want the matter whitewashed, If we are to ha y: thing like a public quarrel, we want it some far off place like Mexico or the Philippines. Even political campaigns have become polite. We may still have ideals. We might be willing to have scats in trolley to have a lower cost of living; to rid of the slums and the idle rich; to have a government which is truly repre- sentative. All of these would be ac- ceptable if we could get them without a struggle. We might not object to So- cialism even, if its advocates would be secmly and gentlemanly; if, instead of being militant and obtrusive, they would fasten it upon us by some underhand process of -gratt: ‘But the:trouble with what few reformers and insurgents re- main among us is that they ask us to get excited, to come out and fight, to show our teeth 10 the enemy and our heels to complacent acquiescence; toiact, in short, as if we had rights which not alone others were hound to respect, but which Wve resected’ ourselves. Sad fares the land and doomed to be benighted, Where ills accumulate and men can’t get excited. Hang Your Clothes —Don’t Pack Them S.Wa ardrobe Trunk permi gersand in com- $ The result is unwrinkled bills for pressing re- ny article in the trunk without burrowing under or removing everything else, A place in this trunk for everything you need ~~ tr: ‘Aiieese J. & F. Parkhurst & Son Co. 8 Rowe St., Bangor, Me. Marbridge Building, New York. 161 Summer St., Boston. Must Have Read It Poer (at stamp window): You have no reduced rates for manuscript? Crews: No, sir Poet: Well, 1 want stamps for this. Chek: One way or round trip? —Boston Transcript. Wetvox : Is he Kaxe: Well, he runs a bigger auto- mobile than any of his creditors. @Seweeeae=e oa silver plate, We illustrate urn style No. 3394 and coffee pot style No. 9032. For sale at leading dealers. Write for free recipe book and catalogue No. J-26 MANNING, BOWMAN & CO. Meriden, Conn. Also makers of Manning-Bowman Chafing Dishes with ‘Ivory’? Enameled Food Pars. either aleohel gas or electric heater. clips Bread Makers, Alsobel Ous Stoves, Tes Ball ‘Tea Pote.Chating Dish Accessories, Tih a B Brass, Copper und Michal Plies, E.0. 45. York Globe. Since the decision rendered by the United States Supreme Court, it has been decided by the Monks hereafter to bottle CHARTREUSE (Liqueur Peres Chartreux) poth being identically the same article, under a combination label representing the old and the new labels, and in the old style of bottle bearing the Monks’ familiar insignia, as shown in this advertisement. ccording to the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, handed down by Mr. Justice Hughes on May 2oth, 1911, no one but the Carthusian Monks (Peres Chartreux) is entitled to use the word CHARTREUSE as the name or designation of a Liqueur, so their victory in the suit against the Cusenier Company, representing M. Henri Lecouturier, the Liquidator appointed by the French Courts, and his successors, the Compagnie Hermitre de la Grande Chartreuse, is complete. The Carthusian Monks (Péres Chartreux), and they alone, have the formula or recipe of the secret process em- ployed in the manufacture of the genuine Chartreuse, and have never parted with it. There is no genuine Chartreuse save that made by them at Tarragona, Spain, At fest-clss Wine Merchants, Gro Bitier & Co. 45 Broadway. Nes TYPOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING Solr ‘Agents for United Sates NEAVY FACE AND TITLE BLACK comicbooeent