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This page is primarily **advertising**, typical of early 1900s magazines. The main content includes: **Edison Lamp Works advertisement**: Promotes automobile lamps backed by Edison's 35 years of experience, emphasizing reliability for car lighting systems. References "MAZDA Service," indicating partnership with that lighting technology. **"How He Could Tell" anecdote**: A regional humor piece from *Ladies' Home Journal* mocking Georgia rural people ("crackers"). The joke relies on a stereotype of laziness or stupidity—a northern settler jokes that you can distinguish a Georgia cracker from a tree stump by waiting to see if it moves. This reflects early 20th-century regional prejudice common in national magazines. **Other advertisements**: Burpee's Seeds, Davey Tree Expert Co., Detroit Marine Engine, Hunter Whiskey, and footwear/film script services fill remaining space. The page reflects 1914-era consumer culture and regional stereotyping acceptable for mainstream publication at the time.

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The Automobile Lamps backed by 35 years of EDISON Experience are the only automobile lamps marked “EDISON”. This name stands for all the skill that has been gained in making more than 500 million EDISON lamps. dd to this the world-wide lamp-making research known as “MAZDA Service’; and add our years of close co-operation with makers of automobile lighting systems—then you will understand why on more than 40 leading cars this year they are a part of the initial equipment, and why these reliable lamps are chosen for renewals by so many owners of electrically lighted cars as well as of motor boats and motorcycles, . . You get these lamps wherever you see an EDISON Service Station or an EDISON Agency sign displayed. You can get a complete set for ur car—head-lights, side-light, speedometer and tail-lamps—all packed in this handy little lamp-chest. “And by keeping this chest always filled with new EDISON MAZDAS, you not only protect yourself against lighting emergencies on tours, but insure yourself of maximum efficiency from your lighting system. Individuality In Footwear Style—Quality—Comfort Pin i aggre Personal atteation given all orders. Sattsfaruion and fit goaranteed. E, HAYES Ladies’ Custom Shoes 9.11 Weat26thSt., New York ( ‘WANTED FOR PLOTS moter Picwre PLAYS You can write them. Manufacturers now paying each plot. We teach you how to write and sell them. Nome vious experience necessa: for free details, MOTION FICTERE SCHOOLS, How He Could Tell A Georgia “cracker” tells this story on his own people: He says a northern man who had settled in Georgia was vis- ited by a friend who asked him how he liked the place and the people. “Ob, all right,” replied the man, “Now tell me,” asked the friend, “what is a ‘Georgia cracker’? How can you tell him from another person?” “Well,” replied the northern settler, “you sce out in that field a black ob- ject?” “Yes,” said the friend, $25 to $100 for Be sure the lamps you buy bear the name EDISON EDISON LAMP WORKS OF GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY s General Sales Office, Harrison, N.J. Agencies Everywhere “Now,” said the man, “that may be cither a ‘Georgia cracker’ or a stump. Watch it for half an hour, and if it moves, why, it’s a stump.” —Ladies’ Home Journal. f) are supplied every year direct to more American planters urpee Ss Seeds than are the seeds of any other growers. Do your seeds come direct from Philadelphia? If not, we should like to make your acquaintance. Simply send us your address (a postal card will do) and you will receive Burpee’s Annual for 1914,—a bright book of 182 pages, which has long been recognized as “The Leading American Seed Catalog.” Kindly write to-day! Address W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., Burpee Buildings, Philadelphia Let a Davey Tree Expert Examine your trees Set your mind at rest about your trees. Expert examinations without charge. If your trees need to attention, you want to know it; f they do, you ought to know it, Winter storms may have tartedserow trouble.’ Davey Tree Surgeons onip are good enouth for the U. 5. Gov. want t ‘Surgery, it must be Dave Representatives earning available everywhere. Wete today for beauthal free book.” |“ 7remusres THE DAVEY TREE EXPERT CO., Inc. 331 Elm Street, Kent, Ohio Franchen, with telephone connections: New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Montreal, San Francisco A TROPICAL CLIMB Detroit Marine Engine { / or Kerosene " GREATEST EN. GINE BARGAIN EVER OFFERED. phobic Uses Gasoline APPEALS TO ALL WHO CAN APPRECIATE ITS UNRIVALED PURITY AND EXCELLENCE, ITS UNEQUALED QUALITY AND FLAVOR Sold at all first-class cafes and’ by jobbers. WM. LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Md. ‘coat, gives mer oF, will. Eegine sarte without cranking; reverah Bie, only three moviag parts. Detroit Engine Works, 136 Jefferson Avo.. Detroit,