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This page is primarily **advertising-heavy**, dominated by a large W. L. Douglas Shoes advertisement featuring the company founder's portrait and guarantees about shoe quality and fair pricing. The page includes two satirical cartoons: 1. **"Could He Eat a Tart?"** (top left) — A nursery-rhyme style joke playing on gluttony, seemingly unrelated to surrounding content. 2. **"Jake Your Complexion Seriously"** (lower left) — Advertises Resinol Ointment/Soap for skin problems, using period beauty standards to market skincare products. The text article **"A Lesson"** mocks anti-smoking propaganda by describing a 100-year-old Mason who smoked cigars daily but then hypocritically warned others against smoking. The satire suggests the centenarian's anti-smoking advice is merely influenced by "pernicious anti-smoking propaganda" rather than genuine concern—implying skepticism toward contemporary health warnings. The overall page reflects early 20th-century magazine conventions mixing entertainment, advertising, and light social commentary.

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W. L. DOUGLAS” RReduced °S3-0O SHOES “Yee Spesinl Shoes $10.00 || Seesial Shgee $6.00 FOR MEN AND WOMEN THE STAMPED PRICE IS W. L. DOUGLAS PER- SONAL GUARANTEE THAT THE SHOES ARE ALWAYS WORTH THE PRICE PAID FOR THEM YOU CAN ALWAYS They are the best known SAVE. MONEY BY WEARING ||shoes in the world. Sold Bp UOUGLAS SHOES in 107 W. L. Douglas SOLD FROM stores, direct from the fac- TO.X0U ATONE FRO tory to you at only one profit, which guarantees to you the best shoes that | can be produced, at the lowest possible cost. W.L. Douglas name and the retail price are stamped on the bottom of all shoes before they leave the factory, which is your protectionagainst unreasonable profits. W.L.Douglas shoes are absolutely the best shoe for the money in this country. They are made of the best and finest leathers that money can buy. They combine quality, style, workmanship and wearing qual- WJ ities equal to other makes selling at higher prices. They are the leaders in the fashion centers of America. The prices are the same everywhere; they cost no more in San Francisco than they do in New Y W. L. Douglas shoes are made by ee highest paid, skilled shoemakers, under the di: supervision of experienced men, all working with pe honest deter- mination to make the best shoes for the price that money can buy. CAUTION beta sroce ths name and price is plainly stamped ot on the sole. Be care- ful tosec that it has not been ch; Wel.....L, MeL. y, W. L. Dougias Shoe Co., 147 Spark St. Brockton, Mass. aA “COULD INE EAT A TART?” cco ME EAT A TART? NE CUD EAT THE WHOLE DARNED BAKERY!" of Lec- | g Literati Who Have Fallen Flat | dd Siates. } Association of Playwrights and nga trip, bo Have Written a Powerful Second » of Gripping Novel Makers. oi Distinguished One Americans Vote bho Have Received in the ‘oral College. awe rder of Defuact Prohibition | t Commissioners for the New Amalgamated Association of Movie ; Who Think Charlie Chaplin Is j SHOES FIT bat Fung. j WELL AND HOLD Nationa ation of Loyal Ameri- : THEIR SHAPE Who Think the Sunday Blue Laws Mi Be the Last Straw But Whe Nothing About It. seal las! gentle reader, the answer is No. Are ‘W.L Dougtias shors are for sale by over’ ion ine enter carne sapPi7 fon ah * Troe he facts for bookiot taling how te ender mall, postage free, hat ake your com: plexion seriously Are your pores enlarged or clogged with waste matter? Isyc our skin rough, unusually oily, blotched, or red? Don't neglect the treatment of these defects vhen Resinol Ointment and Resinol Scap usually overcome such troubles quickly andeasily, Resinol Ointment soothes and heals the skin while Resi- nol Soap cleanses and refreshes it. ‘Try them and see, Atall drugzists, - TRESINOL A Lesson HE oldest Mason in celebrated his one hundredth birthday recently, Massachusetts He was questioned closely con- cerning his method for accumulating such number of years, and the de that he smoked from two to five ci The tenarian added, however, that he had reason to think that the smoking had | helped his digestion to any noticeable ex- | tent, and he strongly advised everyone not to indulge in the vil ty weed. At first blush the centenarian may seem to be a gratifying discovery was then day. an ungrateful sort of person to go back on an old and faithful friend in this man- ner. Sober second thought, however, will make everyone realize that the old gen- tleman was merely affected by pernicious anti-smoking propaganda. He had no reason to think that the smoking had helped his digestion, he said; but if one PETER J, CAREY & SONS, INGy PRINTERS had punished several cigars every da tween the Fall of the Alamo and the ba of Chateau-Thierry and still retained even a fraction of his di one ive apparatus, then would have every reason to think that the smoking must have rendered his of time, cooking. Ie e thought of saying such interior impervious to the attac weather and Bohemian never would mean things nst tobacco unless some unscrupulous person had put them inio his head. It's a lesson to all of us to attacks on te a grain, but with an entire pailful, of salt. The Reason an inquiry by well-known penned the following: “We are not in- terested in your article on ‘Causes of the High Price of Coal.’ We have manu- scripts to burn.” acco with not only N reply to a would-be contributor, a editor comicbooks.com