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This page combines humor with advertising typical of early 20th-century Life magazine. **The Klalesman cartoon** satirizes the Ku Klux Klan through wordplay. A New York traveling salesman arriving in a Southern town is mistaken for a KKK secret agent. When confronted with "Ku Klux?", he replies "No...Klux and suits"—he's a clothing salesman. The joke mocks the KKK by reducing their supposed mystique to a simple misunderstanding, while also suggesting the Klan's suspicious, secretive culture in the South. **Other content** includes period humor snippets (anecdotes about Bret Harte, a confused maid, a woman asking about "chestnut coal with no worms") and advertisements for Edison Mazda lamps, dandruff treatment, and Tucson's health tourism. The Klalesman joke reflects 1920s American attitudes—treating the KKK as ridiculous rather than genuinely threatening, though the Klan was actively violent during this era.

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