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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The dominant content is a Timken-Detroit Rear Axle advertisement featuring an X-ray style image of automotive gears and bearings. The ad uses medical imaging as a metaphor to showcase internal mechanical precision—comparing invisible car components to invisible human organs. A secondary advertisement promotes Whiting-Adams brushes as reliable products "Always Suit—Never Fail." The only editorial content is a brief suffrage-related piece quoting Mrs. Skinner, a militant suffragette from "two generations ago" (appearing to reference late 1800s activism). Her speech uses colloquial, confrontational language ("feller wimmen," "male trash") to argue for women's equality and against men—presented here as historical testimony to earlier feminist rhetoric rather than contemporary satire. The page reflects early 20th-century advertising aesthetics and the lingering cultural memory of suffrage debates.

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Abd you peed Bot fede reterning any of the ¢ Whee you onter ta quantities of $00, your cigarettes will, without Can charge, be matted with your til tattle’ your mosagram, Gest or any other device. : ev ane SENT UPON REQUEST—A booklet telling about the making: beth Sevanmegen ees Gaara fough- ‘Company's very special brands. Waterbury Cigarette Co., S00 Fith Ave., New York City Cigarettes of the Waterbury standard are on sale where the character of the patronage justifies it. You ask simply for the Waterbury. Spoke Ably in Behalf of Suffrage “As Others See Us,” a volume by John Graham Brooks, published by the Macmillan Company, quotes a specch de- livered by a militant suffragette, a cer- tain Mrs, Skinner, two generations ago. She said: Miss President, “ feller wimmen,” and male trash generally. I am here to-day for the purpose of discussing women's rights, recussing her wrongs, and cussing the men. What you would see in a Timken- Detroit Rear Axle if its pressed- steel housing’ were transparent. Look Into Your Rear Axle X-Ray pictures of the human body reveal what the eye cannot see. They gently penetrate skin and muscles and show the wonderful structure of vital organs and bones. Could the X-Ray penetrate the pressed-steel housing (the skin) of a Timken-Detroit Rear Axle it would reveal what is shown in the picture abov Hidden under the housing are the shining teeth of polished gears that transmit driving power from engine to wheels. Quiet running, full power, satisfaction, depend on the accurate meshing of those polished EEVERY curve and angle of the teeth, has been calculated ‘by expert engineers and has been teeth. that meet side pressure as'well as direct weight. The one bearing that does all these things is the | believe the sexes were created per- made an accurate reality by the unique Tim- Timken Tapered Roller Bearing—and no other has A footal feetly equal, with the woman a little more ken process of grinding every gear to its master been used in the Timken-Detroit Axle. try some, pr equal than the man, pinion, every pinion to its master gear, Look deeper still—go deep down below the finished sie eae I believe that the world to-day would But even that accuracy would not avail, except whole, below operations and materials, even below nia cic be happier if man never existed. for the labor of many hands and brains, through — design—get the very heart and core of Timken Axle As a success man is a failure, and I which it becomes possible to put the gears together Quality. gs and ready bx bless my stars that my mother was a right and keep them right after they are in the axle. There you find an organization of men, wholly devoted to ne change te] ‘one ideal—the building of a perfect axle. From the day of the woman. (Applause.) I not only maintain those principles, but maintain a shiftless husband besides. They say man was created first. Well, s'pose he was. Ain't first experiments always failures? The only decent thing about man was a rib, and that went to make something better, (Applause.) This means conscientious labor in the tool-room, where jigs and gauges are made. It means exactness in size and alignment of holes, of threads, of adjusting rings. It means firmness of clamping devices that hold the parts almost as solidly together as though they were welded. It means many men, many operations, constant gaug- ing tothe finest limits of accuracy, exhaustive testing. It means using bearings that show almost no wear after thousands of miles of running—yet can be ad- iusted to correct that small wear perfectly—bearings first motor-car they have worked together toward that e: And to this ideal is due the safety, comfort and satisfaction of the man who drives a Timken-equipped car today. You can catch the X-Ray spirit and look into the hidden, Important facts by writing today for the Timken Primers H-7 Anatomy of Automobile Axies"and H-8 “On the Care and Character of Bearings." Sent free, postpaid from either Ww w The Timken Roller Bearing Co. ‘Canton, Ohio WHITING-ADAMS CELEBRATED ‘BRUSHES Always Suit = Never Fail Over 10,000 Kinds and Sizes of WHITING-ADAMS Paint, Varnish, Artist, Hair, Toilet, Shaving, House- hold, and other Brushes made, The Timken-Detroit Axle Co, Detroit, Michigan And they throw into our faces about taking an apple. I'll bet five dollars that Adam boosted Eve up the tree, and only gave her the core. And what did he do when he was found out? True to his masculine in- stincts, he sneaked behind Eve and said: “'Twant me; ‘twas her.” And women had to father everything and mother it, too. What we want is the ballot; we're bound to have it, if we have to let down our back hair and swim in a sea of gore. JOHN L. WHITING - J. J. ADAMS CO., 690 to 710 Harrison Avenue, Boston, U.S. A. BRUSH MANUFACTURERS FOR OVER 100 YEARS ONE WHOLE CITY BLOCK comicbooks.com