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This page is primarily **advertising and promotional content** rather than political satire. The dominant feature is a large advertisement for Timken Axles and Bearings, illustrated with a family boarding an automobile. The image emphasizes automotive safety, a significant concern in the early automobile era. The small "Modern" poem by Minna Irving depicts a man returning home after years away, finding his house unchanged—a commentary on domestic stagnation rather than political satire. A brief joke about political rings appears, but it's generic humor without specific contemporary reference. The remaining content consists of various product advertisements (Kellogg air pumps, Clark Orient Cruise, etc.) and an article on medical ethics regarding disease injection experiments—a legitimate ethical concern of the period, not satire.

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SOCIETY'S. NEWEST This isto let the reDers of Ld E know about societys me mem S.Anargyros' SPECIAL BRUS END Cig arettes Ure: -individual, ap ar le entirely and wrapped in silyer geek rn le A HEN Enoch Arden, after years Upon the desert isle, To find his wife and home again Tramped may a weary mile, And stealing in the garden gate Through twilight shadows gray, Before the cottage window stood, He started in dismay. “T recognize the room,” he said, “The carpet worse for wear, The cuckoo-clock that never went, The same old rocking-chair, The worsted motto on the wall, These things I oft have seen; But that is not my wife, because That woman's hair is green.” Minna Irving. Fits Any Town IRST PASSENGER: I under- stand that your city has the rot- tenest political ring in the country. Seconp Passencer: That's right. But how did you know where I'm from? First Passencer: I don't. : ‘You can laugh at tire bills and the big pumping up part of tire troubles with the EngineDriven . Air Pump ONE, TWO, FOUR, SIX CYLINDER MODELS COMPLETE WITH ATTACHMENTS READY TO INSTALL 2 more than 30 different makes of cars, old and new, by ‘ar manufacturers, dealers or at any of repair Cost is saved many times in r Wai ws sane el Ge ee ol particulars. KELLOGG MFG. CO. iGaSsien N° | firgiad tod entrar leading eentert. make dirStarter Units for Autos and Motor Boats On Front Axle Safety You trust your family and friends to the you can rely on it that the men who have car, with little thought of the front axle. planned, fashioned, manufactured, in- spected and tested that axle—all know that your safety would be in its keeping. You can confidently count on safety. . . 5 7 7 For Timken rightly insists that the axle an engincer, figuring his stresses, knows must be right in itself, right for the car and : rightly engineered and co-related with all The chemist, analyzing his steels, knows the other parts of the car. For our and this. for your safety. The metallurgist, studying with the mi- From the standpoint of safety and from many Fy other standpoints, axJes and bearings are the most croscope, knows this. And many a skilled important parts of the car. They are also among workman forging, machining, heat-treat- the most interesting. You will profit by and wil ing and grinding the axle parts knows it too. enjoy reading the "Three Timken, Booklets.” The: be mailed free on postcard request to Dep't When it's a Timken-Detroit Front Axle [1-9 either Timken Company. 3 THE er a. AXLE CO. THE TIMKEN, ROLLER BEARING CO. Canton, O! Yet on the front axle, more than on any other part, you depend for their and your safety. Getting Consent WRITER in Harper's Weekly explains how Dr. Noguchi made an extract from disease germs and injected this into several hundred patients in order to find out what would happen. Some of these persons were supposed to be already infected with the disease and some were supposed not to be infected, but in no case, are assured, was the injection made “ without the approval of the physician in charge”. Of course, professional ethics would require the approval of the physician in charge, even when the physician in charge was merely the superintendent of a hospital for charity patients. But can’t we devise some kind of automatic professional ethics that will protect the victims and make their approval also important? We would not he greatly moved by the plea of a burglar that he entered a house only with the approval of his pal who remained outside to keep watch. comicbooks.com