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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The dominant content is a Resinol Soap advertisement featuring an art deco-style portrait of a woman, claiming the product "protects the complexion" and treats various skin conditions. The ad argues that while wealthy people pay three dollars for premium soaps, Resinol offers equal quality at twenty-five cents. Secondary content includes: - A **Switzerland National Exhibition advertisement** (Berne, May-October 1914) - Travel advertisements for the **Flushing Mail Route** and other services - **Three brief humorous anecdotes** at page bottom, including jokes about broken political promises and romantic absence The small cartoon labeled "Gentleman in Rear" shows a figure reassuring someone ahead: "Don't be afraid, old man, I'm right behind you!"—likely a mild joke about moral support or following someone's lead. The page reflects 1914 consumer culture and early 20th-century advertising strategies, with minimal satirical content.

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Sons, pe for dress. lustre r, but it soft NARY depart: eof a r York Switzerlands National Exhibition in Berne enough, to handle it, so he got it by the million acres, and, as said, he worked hard, lived happy, and died very, very rich, It isn’t so bad as it seems. The country wanted lumber and Weyer- haeuser spent all his life supplying lumber, No doubt he was a useful cog in the great industrial machine and did his work with as little waste as the government or anyone else could have done it in his day. And ownership of timber lands is, we suppose, only skin- deep anyway and Weyerhaeuser left alt his land where he found it when he died. No doubt he was a natural Property and product of the United States in the last half of the nineteenth century, but there will come a time when it will read like a joke that a German peasant came here in 1852 and died sixty-two years later in control of about thirty million acres of the soil of the United States. e Travel by the FLUSHING MAIL ROUTE .__ Day Service via Queenboro-Flushing. Night Serv ice via Folkestone-Flushing. Shortest Channel Cross- ing. Largest Steamers. Fast Through Service between London and Prin- cipal Points in Northern and Middle Europe. Fast t-trains between Flushing and The Hague, Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, Amsterdam, » Vienna, Bale, Triest, etc. For time tables, rates and further particulars apply to the American Agency of the Flushing Line and Netherland State Rys., 34 Fifth Avenue, New York. ‘J\ EVETTE-—novsicanr 1 Your perfamer has it or will get it ‘Send for Small Sample Bottle, 20c PARK & TILFORD, Sole Agents, NEW YORK == osinol Soap votects the complexion , ff | ) The very rich pay as much a iT “Of course, you have made some Do not imagine that Resinol Soap is only for sick skins. Effective as it is in the care of the many distressing con- ditions to which the complexion is sub- ject, Resinol Soap is first of all a superbly pure toilet soap, with a rich, cleansing lather that protects well skins from those very conditions. The Resinol balsams which it contains keep the skin soft, white and clear, the hair thick and lustrous, and the scalp free from dan- druff. as three dollars a cake for their toilet soap, but at twenty- five cents, Resinol Soap actu- ally gives equal quality, plus antiseptic Resinol cleanliness. Sold by all druggists and deal crs in toilet goods. Fo; guest-room size cake and min- iature box of Resinol Oint- ment, write to Dept. 56-C, Resinol, Baltimore, Md. For nineteen years physicians have prescribed Resinol for the Resinol Shaving Stick also HD most agreeable to tender faces. Trial on req | Making It Right AnH promises you didn’t keep.” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. “ But I never yet broke a promise to a man without giving him a better one in its stead."—IVashington Star. Maocr: Have you really found that absence makes the heart grow fonder? Maxyorix: Indeed I have! Since Charlie went away, I've learned to love Jack ever so much more. —Lippincott's. Gentleman in Rear: won't ne AFRAID, OLD MAN. I'M RIGHT BEHIND You! comicbooks.com