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This page is primarily **advertising and filler content** rather than political satire. The dominant advertisements include: - **Van Kerr Transformers**: A motor/engine component marketed to solve cold-weather starting problems - **Bellans for Indigestion**: A digestive remedy - **Motors**: Electrical equipment - **Cortez Cigars**: Marketed "for men of brains" The right column contains brief items: a hotel advertisement, a speech impediment treatment ("Stammering"), a Mark Twain book promotion, and a short piece titled "The Wages of Sink" commenting on King George's reduced dinner parties—a minor social observation rather than sharp satire. The "Mystic Names of the South Seas" item is a light cultural note about Tahitian pronunciation. Overall, this is a typical early 20th-century magazine page mixing advertisements with brief, gentle humor rather than pointed political commentary.

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YOUR TROUBLES ARE OVER “VKCO™ VAN KERR TRANSFORMERS Decrease gasoline consumption—give greater power— reduce carbon deposits. Can be attached in a few minutes, and from that time on you will have a sweet, smoothly running motor which starts easily even in zero weather. DOES YOUR MOTOR PUMP OIL? DON'T WORRY! You won't have to spend The Van Kerr Transformer is to $125 for new pistons a the only oxygen-burning system boring cylinders. The Tr of ignition on the market and is mercarriesoxygentoyourexplo. Of ignition on the market aad i sion chamber, producing a more sold on an absolute money-bs combustible spark, “This spark, ge sii yi by consuming every particle oll and gas, gives, greater power coveting over electrodes is a and leaves no cat! ented fireproof fearur For Pleasure ‘Gare, Tractors, Motorcycles, Gas Enj We Will Send You a Set of Transformers by parcel post. Write us today and tell us your dealer's name and the kind of car you drive. Send no money. Simply pay the postman $2.00 for a four-cylinder set or $2.50 for a six-cylinder set. Use them ten days and if you are not satisfied that they do all we say they will, return them and you will get your money back. Attach them Jourse fal Som need es Tino, mire THE VAN KERR CO., Dept. 68 3160 N. Clark Street, Chicago 44 Quer 100,000 satisfied customers are using ‘Van Kerr Transformers 6 BELLANS Hot water Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION Cartes CaaS “MADE AT KEY WEST.— The Wages of Sink REPORTS from England have it that the head chef of King George has accepted a reduction in salary—but as usual there's a string to it. Instead of the eight state dinners heretofore served at the palace, he will have only three. Furthermore, every time the king has more than twenty dinner guests at Buck- ingham his chef is to receive a bonus of five hundred dollars. This seems fair enough. As to the number of dinner parties which a ruling sovereign may give with propriety during a twelvemonth, we think that eight is too many. As to the bonus, there will doubtless be many opinions. But it is only a question of time before Col. Harvey—our Mr. Harvey—will be invited to sit at the kingly board, and though he may make the twenticth guest we believe it will be well worth five hundred dollars to be able to command the: services of a first-class chef on such an occasion. HEN a man loses his heart his head has to do double work. 782 Mystic Names of the South Seas Few of us know that by those who live there Tahiti is pronounced “ Tity * (long i) to rhyme quite perfectly with nightie. HERE was a young lady of Tahiti, Whose neighbors declared she was flahiti ; For they saw on her line (If the Monday was fine) An extremely diaphanous nahiti! Carolyn Wells, OES age give people away? It tells on them, HOTEL ASPINWALL LENOX, MASS. High and Cool in the Berkshires ‘A HOTEL OF DISTINCTION Opens June 18 Golf Saddle Riding Desirable Cottages with Hotel saven HOWE & TWOROGER, Managers Winter Resort, Princess Hotel, Bermuda pie M1 Ifs @use and Gire * You eqa.be exicts ity cured. Send 10 cents for 283 cloth bound book on Stammering and Stutter- It tells how I cured myself after Stammering aba Staterng ft 0 years, BEN. NM. BOGU! fidtes. 1 1147 M, HL 81 Afraid” “Lain't.” “You are.” -ept With the calm un- rol somal thes ive hers onahe ven Knowing each other—just as have fought many a time—becasse you cou! help it, Once more go tack to boyhood wit! MARK TWAIN 12 Volumes—At a Low Price REX BEACH—FREE! 5S Volumes—Adventure Stories Rex Beach is the most popular writer of thrilling stories living today. Plenty of humor—plenty of scrapping— bg. raw-boaed mea—the women these men figbi and die for—all these you will fad in Beach's vivid, humaa novels, Only a Few Sets Free Rex Beach now costs you $2 for each volume worth of books~ absolutely free. Hf you are prompt you caa get your set free. Send no money—just the coupon for both sets for examination, Send it at ence. HARPER & BROTHERS, 37 Franklin Square, New York. Send me, all charges prepaid, a set of Mark Twain fn 12 vot tomes, illastrated, bound in handsome green cloth, Stamped te gold, and Rex Beach tn $ votu Sx tatinted I wit rerara hem nt year expenses iheretse T will send you $1.50 within $ days and $2.00 a month for 14 months. Lave 47-21 NAME... y ADDRESS. Occuration. comicbooks.com