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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The main content is a Williams' Shaving Soap advertisement featuring product claims and images of shaving implements. The left sidebar contains humorous "Extracts from a Golfer's Dictionary"—satirical definitions mocking golf culture and its practitioners. Terms like "Golfer" (someone who plays golf or pretends to) and "Duffer" (an incompetent player in gaudy attire) gently ridicule the sport's social pretensions. A brief joke about a wife's shopping accounts provides lighthearted domestic humor. The advertisement itself uses the common early-20th-century sales pitch: Williams' soap is superior because it produces excellent lather, feels mild, and has a 75-year history. The copy reassures men they needn't specify the product name—their face knows what it needs. The page also advertises Absorbine Jr., a medicinal liniment for sore muscles and minor injuries. No significant political content is present; this is consumer-focused magazine content typical of the 1920s-era Life magazine.

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| For Sore Muscles | | | Extracts from a Golfer's Dictionary OLF: A pursuit much followed, and a game much played at, by many persons, in full health or other- wise, who could not under any other conditions be induced to walk a mile in the open country. To some a pro- fession, to some an obsession, to some a mystery. Links: An abandoned farm located near or at a distance from a city and kept at great expense in a highly mani- cured condition, and given over to the pursuit of leisure, pleasure, and balls, high and rubber, by ladies and gentle- men to whom croquet is too limited, bridge too confining and poker too exciting. Gotrer: A person of cither sex who either plays golf or doesn’t play golf but thinks he does. (Sce Duffer.) Durrer: A sod-cutting biped armed with a great deal of nerve, plaid stockings, a red coat and a bagful of assorted iron weapons, who plays at the game of golf irrespective of the ball or anybody else. Cappiz: A combination of freckles, impudence and old clothes, made in the form of a human being to help golfers lose their balls, their tempers and their reputations. Husuanp: I don’t see why you have accounts in so many different stores. Wire: Because, my dear, it makes the bills so much smaller. —Boston Transcript. Absorbine, Jr. brings quick relief. Keep it always at hand for instant use. a Athletes use Absorbine, Jr. for the muscle that has been strained, for the cut or laceration that runs a chance of infection; for the abrasion that pains a1 the limbs that are stiff and lame from over-exertion, When applied to cuts, bruises and sores, it kills the terms, makes the wound aseptically clean and pro- motes rapid and healthy healing. It allays pain a iAimension promjtly. Swollen glands, paicfel exc Soot peing ead aed Wari colagernnts yied ‘veadily to tbe application of Absorbine, J. Absorbine, Jr. is made of herbs and is non-poisonous—safe to use anywhere, even by the smallest member of the family, $1.00 a bottle ot draggists A LIBERAL TRIAL BOTTLE will be sent to your address upon receipt of 10c in stamps. W. F. YOUNG, P. D. G. 307 Temple St. Springfield, Mass. i Have It Your Own Way Stick, Powder, Cream, Liquid Here’s Shaving Soap, men, that makes your razor your pet toy and shaving the day’s event. Touch your brush to it and you have a lather like whipped cream. None of that on-again-off-again-Finnegan stuff about Williams’ lather. It stays, holds its moisture like a sea fog and makes the razor’s work a pastime. It’s as pure as the food you eat and as mild as a day in June. Whether yours is a once-over or a repeat, the result is the same—no bite or sting; no hard, dry feel. Williams’ Shaving Soap has been encouraging the daily shave habit for 75 years, and that’s about 74 years, 11 months and 27 days longer than a poor soap could last. Therefore, don’t say ‘shaving soap’’ to the dealer. His judgment as to what your face needs cannot possibly be good as your own. Say Wil/liams’ Shaving Soap. Send 12 cents in stamps for a trial size of all four forms, and then decide which you prefer. Or send 4 cents in stamps for any one. THE J. B. WILLIAMS COMPANY, Dept. A, Glastonbury, Conn. Add the finishing touch to your shave with Williams? luxurious Tale Powder pected it anyway. we have to endure, isn't it? you'll get a better cook the next time 1 come.” If They Told the Truth “NPR. CHAIRMAN, I’m glad to say that I can't make an interesting speech, but even if 1 could I wouldn't waste it on so much intelligence as I sce before me this evening—sitting, as you are, half dazed with food, alcohol and tobacco.” ond-hand car, would you? hasn't been touched for fi appearance, hasn't it? five dollars. hundred dollars.” “Well, good-bye, Mrs. Diamondback. I've had a dull week-end. But T ex- comicbooks.com One of the things Hope “You'd never know this was a sec- The engine e years, but a new coat of paint has given it a fine Worth seventy- Sell it to you for five