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This page consists primarily of **advertisements and unrelated content** rather than coherent political satire. The main visual elements include: 1. **"The Clever Bishop"** — A brief anecdote about a bishop answering children's theological questions, ending with a punchline about angels' wings (source: *Tit-Bits* magazine) 2. **Detroit Springs advertisement** — promoting self-lubricating shock absorbers 3. **"Our Financial Middlemen"** — An essay on bankers' role during wartime, discussing interest rates and borrowing constraints (appears WWI-era context) 4. **Duck Trousers cartoon** — A humorous illustration about clothing alterations 5. **Standard Oil "Cave Man" advertisement** — promoting digestive products via lifestyle comparison The page lacks unified satirical purpose and reads as a typical early-20th-century magazine layout mixing editorial content with advertising.

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“ET EE: SIDINGS SELF LUBRICATING are comfortable— long, flat, flexible— transformingsharp shocks into easy undulations DETROIT STEEL PRODUCTS CO. ont Mich Our Financial Middlemen NKERS,, ‘beleg” Anabela! | milddles men, naturally possess all the well- known qualifications of other middle- men, What their opinion may be at a given moment concerning the financial situation depends, not so much upon the facts, as upon who happens to be listen- ing when the opinion is expressed. If, for instance, a depositor hearing that interest rates have gone up, trics to get a little more interest from his banker, he is met either with a reminder that the banker is conferring a great favor upon him by accepting his money or with the tearful excuse that on account of the stagnation of business, due to the war or something else, money is a drug on The Clever Bishop A bishop recently addressed a large assembly of Sunday-school children, and wound up by asking, in a very paternal way, “And now, is there any little boy, or any little girl, who would like to ask me a question?” A thin, shrill voice at the back of the room called out, “Please, sir, why did the angels walk up and down Jacob's ladder when they had wings?” Oh, ab, yes—I see,” said the bishop. “And now, is there any little girl who would like to answer this question?” —Tit-Bits. Likely ING SOLOMON, who never blun- dered, Had wives that numbered seven hundred. And yet, when all is said and done, He may have been a fool—with one! HESE are the answers to the auto mobile guessing picture on page 189 of the August 3rd issue of Lire: Over- land, Packard, Franklin, Pierce Arrow, Stearns, Ford, Silent Knight, White Steamer, Saxon, Hudson, Knox, Chase If You Lived As The Cave Man Lived Your health would take care of itself the market; but if a borrower tries to * HE cave man ate coarse food and lived a strenuous renew his note at the old rate, the . life in the open. His digestive apparatus was suited to that kind of an existence, You inherit from the cave man the same internal mechanism, but youeat diferent food and youtead adigerent kind of a life. Hence the almost universal prevalence of constipation and its constant menace to health Your problem is to adjust that “cave man” internal mechanism of yours to the sedentary life and concentrated food of man, NUJOL accomplishes this adjustment by pi bowel contents from ing hard, thus making ments easy. It doesn’t upset the ordinary processes of digestion and it doesn’t form a habit. NUJOL is sold in pint bottles only. at all drug stores. Refuse substitutes—look for the name NUJOL on the bottle and package. Dept. 15 STANDARD OIL COMPANY mes (New Jersey) | DUCK Bayonne New Jersey | [PROUSERS, cHear TODAY banker is pained to have to tell him that, on account of the excessive demands due to the war, money is very tight, and consequently the interest rate must go up. Next to elastic currency what the banker most needs is elastic logic Send for booklet, “THE RATIONAL TREATMENT OF CONSTIPATION.” Write your name ; and address plainly on the margin below. “THEY'LL MAVE TO BE ALTERED" comicbooks.com