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This page contains a **product advertisement** (WASCO garage heating system) and a **satirical narrative** about finding a trustworthy doctor. The main satire mocks the difficulty of locating an honest physician in early 20th-century America. A couple, the Appleboys, seek medical help but encounter widespread suspicion: a banker won't recommend doctors to his depositors for fear of liability; a woman has abandoned medicine for "fast cure" (likely faith healing); another doctor, Dr. Spankrib, allegedly over-prescribes specialists for commissions. The piece references **Dr. Spinnerton**, a caricatured "big metropolitan doctor" notorious for unnecessary surgery and sanitarium fees—a common contemporary complaint about urban medical practitioners. The satire targets **medical greed and incompetence** among urban physicians, playing on widespread public distrust of the medical profession during this era. The cartoon ultimately suggests that finding an ethical doctor is nearly impossible, a sharp critique of commercialized medicine.

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TWO A.M? The WASCO is an all-cast-iron, coal-burning, self- regulating hot-water garage heating system, with positive automatic temperature control. Keeps your car warm, ready to start instantly any time, day or night, in the coldest weather. Burns only 5¢ worth of coal a day. Requires little attention. Absolutely safe and dependable. Saves frozen radiators and cracked cylinders. Eliminates big repair bills. The expense of one freeze-up would more than pay for a WASCO. Approsed by Fire Under. tortera, Fire Chiefs and in- erence Men Write for FREE Catalog and learn more about this unique system for I- to 10- car garages, It gives letters of at from users ia all pats ofthe country. Name and address of your dealer will be appreciated. Doctor— When You Have a “Harry” Call You want to get there in the shortest possible time. You do not want to be delayed by boiling out a frozen radi- ator or cranking a cold engine. Quick delivery from warchowses in Boston, Springbeld, Hartocd, Jeney City, Phila: Selo, Chicago, Deaver and Kansas INSTALL A ATA QL rw READY-TO-SET-UP and you will always get to your patient without a minute's delay. ity, W. A. ScHLeiT Mec. Co., Inc. 18 Eastwood Sta., Syracuse, N. Y. Distribators write for “exclasive territory’’ proposition and dealer “‘helps.’ “Naturally; that’s his business.” ave you thought of Dr. Spinner- ton? “You mean the Dr. Spinnerton, the big metropolitan doctor?” “Yes.” “You forget the dreadful experi- ence our friends the Bolters had with him—how he first wanted to operate on Mrs. Bolter, and then put her in his private sanitarium and charged her nearly two thousand dollars; and how she was cured afterward by Christian Science.” “Yes—that’s so, these big New Yorkers—I wouldn't dare trust myself with them. I have a natural suspicion of them, based on all the stories I have heard, and a good many facts I know about.” “And besides,” said Mrs. Appleboy, “they are all specialists. Now you don’t know what is the matter, and you want some good reliable man to tell you.” Appleboy passed a restless night. The next morning they renewed their search. “We'll ask everybody we know,” said Mrs. Appleboy. “Do you know of a good, reliable, honest doctor whom you can trust?” asked Appleboy of his banker. That gentleman closed the door dis- creetly. PLAYS FOR HYLAN AND TAMMANY “Good many depositors among them,” he whispered. “ But between you and me, I don’t know of one you can trust. I'd be afraid to send you to any of them.” Mrs. Appleboy pursued the search on her own account. She saw in turn most of her fellow-members in the Woman's Club. “I've given up medicine,” said one, “and taken up fast cure. It’s the only safe thing.” “We have Dr. Spankrib,” said an- other. “But I really couldn't recom- mend him. He just comes and comes, and he's always wanting you to see some specialist of his own choosing. My husband says he gets a large com- mission for surgical cases. He's about the only all-around doctor in town.” When Appleboy came home that night he was tired out with his search. So was his wife. “There's something serious the matter with me,” he said. “But as badly as I feel, I'm afraid to take Had any luck?” @e BILTMORE 43rd and 44th Streets and Madison Avenue The center of social life at TEA TIME Ideally convenient for suburban dwellers foramateurs; Monologs, Recitations, Drillsss! Vaudeville Jokesand Sketches; HomeAmur |) ments; ideas for all kinds of entertainments. Send for free cataky i ORAMATIC PUB. CO., 642 S. DEARBORN ST., CHICAG? comicbookssg alth cal it pur mer Apr