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This page is primarily **advertisements and reader letters**, not political satire. The visible content includes: - **Product ads**: "Mum" deodorant, Monel Metal Golf Clubs (rust-resistant), and a Kranich & Bach player piano - **Reader letters section**: One humorous letter compares a baseball article to Biblical figures (Samson, Abraham, Moses) making "runs" and "sacrifices"—a baseball pun that earned the writer's complaint about the article's five-dollar payment - **Editorial response**: The editor responds to a controversy with Dr. Page regarding **vaccination statistics and public health**, defending scientific disagreement while maintaining civility The vaccination discussion references a contemporary debate over mandatory vaccination laws—Dr. Page apparently challenged their effectiveness or necessity, while the editor argues that worldwide vaccination laws prove medical consensus supports them. The page reflects early 20th-century concerns: hygiene products, leisure activities (golf), home entertainment (player pianos), and public health debates.

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“Mum” | for crowded ball-rooms | and theatres. Keeps the body free from odors 2Sc at drug- and department-stores, If your dealer hasn't ‘Mum,” send us hisnameand 25 cents, and we'll send it postpaid Mum Mfg Co 1106 Chestnut St es) From Our Readers (Continued from page 1921) both put out, Samson struck out, while Abraham made a sacrifice. ly made a run after his tilt with the Egyptians, while the latter were certainly shut out at the Red Sea. It were tedious to continue, especially as nothing further now pops to my mind; but don't you think the writer of your article earned his five dolls too casily, or that you were soaked, or that [ ought to have five also? Yours truly, Moses sure- Sor more FAL W. Nawant, Mass, September 4, 1912. From an Editor Error ov Live: Dear Sir: Without desiring to cnter into controversy with Dr. Page, whose letter appears in your issue of September 12, I desire to make a bricf statement. I thoroughly appreciate Dr. ingness to regard me as “an honest and conscientious man.” I feel the samc way toward him, consequently my re- marks are impersonal in nature. I mere- ly wish to take exception to his state ment that the scientific statisticians in Don’t Play ‘With Clubs That Will Rust They interfere with accurate laying and cost money to keep clean. Buy Monel Metal Clubs that cannot rust or corrode. Tough, strong, resilient and absolutely correct in weight, lie and loft. Cost noth- ing to keep clean, for they hold their original polish always. Monel Metal Golf Clubs (will not rust or corrode) are not specially treated. They are made of a patural rust-resisting alloy that’s strong as steel, but much more elastic. ‘Write for desertp- Because of these peculiar tive booklet properties the ball leaves [> to-day right “feel.” Shafts are ee thoroughly seasoned Sgt : .Second-growth split hicks ‘ory with best quality calfskin fips. 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They cover every class of —music—popu- lar, dance, comic-opera, musical comedy, grand- opera, classic, sacred. All the old familiar favorites as well as the very latest hits. Thousands of pieces on the this country and Europe, who have cx- amined the facts and figures relating to pox and n, are in accord with Alfred Russel The fact that vaccination laws exist throughout the world shows that the bulk of statisti ig with health matters ar thoroughly in accord with th of this procedure for public w 1 do not doubt that Dr. Pag studied the subjects which he discusses, Iut Lam sure that he will agree that his conclusions are held by but a small pro- portion of physicians, sanitarians and scientists throughout the civilized world. 1923 vantages KRANICH & BACH PLAYER-PIANO The Highest Grade Player-Piano in the World Built Completely in one Factory Only the technique—the striking of the right notes at the right instant—is automatic. Every phase of musical-expression is under absolute personal control of the performer And “expression” is what makes music—not technique. The KRANICH & BACH PIANO is famous as one of the half-dozen really first-grade pianos. The Kranich & Bach Player Action is exclusively a K & B product —invented by us and made by us, in every detail, in the same factory with the piano. It is, therefore, equally as perfect as the piano, and is to be had only in KRANICH \y) & BACH PLAYER-PIANOS. Among the many exclusive features of superior- ity one of the most important is the TRI-MELO- DEME or TRIPLE SOLO device, which enables you personally to “bring out” the meledy whether in bass, tenor or treble, and subdue all el-e. Complete and interesting literature will be rent on request: also a sample copy of THE PLAYER MAGAZINE. Sold on Convenient Monthly Payments if Desired “Tri-Melodeme (Melody-Marked) Music-Rolls, with oly any Artistic Tempo Interpretations, make expressive rasy and quickly acquired. These can be used with yerspiano. Kranich & Bach % 233-245 East 23rd St. New York City If Lire would care to have a brief statement of the facts and arguments in favor of vaccination, stated in terms of human lives and not in terms of theo retic opinions, I should be only too happy to co-operate with it, 21 appreciate the fact that Live a large proportion of our citizens, I appreciate your spirit as well as your humor. Yours ,very sincerely, Tea S. Wine New Yorx, September 10, 1912. comicbooks.com