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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The dominant content is a Reedsdale Cigarettes advertisement explaining their new protective packaging design—a practical marketing pitch claiming the inner air-tight wrapping preserves cigarettes from damage during everyday pocket-carrying. The small "Our Foolish Contemporaries" section contains three brief humorous anecdotes: 1. **"An African Order"**: A Frenchman receives a decoration from an African king; a minister asks if he knows what it represents, implying comedic ignorance about foreign honors. 2. **"The Rich Indian"**: A young Englman working in Canada asks a manager about hiring local Indians, then reveals he wants to trade them "furs"—a joke about colonial misunderstandings. 3. **"Dialect Story"**: A Norse housemaid's mishearing of "Seamstress" as "Screamers" creates confusion. These are gentle, light ethnic/dialect humor typical of 1920s Life magazine—mocking foreigners and immigrant accents rather than engaging substantive satire. The page reflects period attitudes toward colonialism and linguistic differences.

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Each cigarette stays perfect in this package until you smoke it There 1s hardly anything more perfect than igarettes rolled by the marvelous modern machines with which all great cigarette factories are equipped. That is, they are perfect when they from the machines and practica fect when they reach the smaker. But what about the final five of a pack- age of twenty, after the package has be- come crushed in the pocket, and the tail- enders thrown crosswise and generally tangled up? Or how about those that wander out of the package into the pocket? Twenty-five per cent of the once perfect cigarettes in the ordinary container are apt to end up flattened, bent, broken, and generally disreputable condition. So, buying twenty cigarettes, yc get fifteen perfect ones, and five in states of damage. The new and improved Reedsdale con- tainer was designed to deliver twenty per- fect cigarettes to the package whenever and wherever you smoke them. Number twenty is as perfect as number one, It is, to the best of our knowledge and belief, the one package that preserves both aroma and form. This is because the inner air-tight wrapping is enclosed in an outer box that is light and comfortable in t pocket, y equate to preserve the cig: rettes in perfect shape. Suppose you try your first package of Reedsdales just to get this 100% insur- ance feature, and then see if the connois- seur-blend of fine tobaccos does not prove an equally happy revelation to you. 8 per- may ious Popularly priced Reedsdale Cigarettes are 20c for a package of twenty. They are now sold by many tobacco dealers and their distribu- tion is being rapidly extended. If you have any difficulty in finding them we will send you a carton of 5 pack- ages of Reedsdale Cigarettes (100 ciga- rette: stpaid for a dollar. Smoke one pack our risk. If you don’t like them, return the four remaining packages and we will refund your dollar. Address Reed Tobacco Co., 112 South 2ist St., Rich- mond, Va, To Retail Tobaeco Merchants: If your jobber cannot supply you with Reedsdale Cigarettes, Tobacco Company, Richmond, Va., will gladly send you prepaid by parcel post a carton containing one hundred or two hundred Reedsdale Cigarettes for | the same price you would pay the jobber. LIFE OU R_ I$ H_ Itcant get lost CONTEMFOR ARIES An African Order In Paris they tell who had been awarded, for some indircet service, the Af ks Tapo, the king of a certain country in Africa, with which the French had ec much in contact. The Freni It can't get lost - PIO AO0Q EDM ee AO NOR SRO oo This is the neu Hinge-Cap on \' story of a man n order of Lab, man was greatly delighted and immediately went to a member of the ministry to obtain the necessary pe n to wear th de of reign order The minister hemmed a Do you know what the decora he aske genth GO= PhOQ ee EROS ARO MOQ ao wh 1a cal | \y worn, In ¢ exactly he mem! in Africa the cecal Louitoe Opthisi LEARN TO PLAY Mah peng The popular and fusing game = $1% The Rich Indian A ye Enghshman, who over and secured g tion ina Car said to the manager : “1 see local Indians are among our DON : larg AND BEGIN TO PLAY ORIENTAL SPECIALTY co. est. 152 West 42nd Street, New York City Dealers and Agents Write. Mess sss k pointed te I might as well get rid of oes it contain Is I brought over t ans for furs. Dialect Story The Norse hane tress: “Ay vent to das n TOWN CANOES” are patterned ian models. ‘The graceful id easy handling. has added great d to her mis je last night iden s note the careful preservation of the dia Town lec ¢ lady of the hanse inquired strength. A n Canoes” are low Se eameach a iad the HA aad in price. $64 up. From dealer or tactory. caramouche nd the girl saic say 4 bea this is a scream: “No, not ver’ mooch © get —Spokane Spokesman-Re Write your free copy to-day. OLD TOWN CANOE CO. 1434 Middle Street, Old Town, Maine, U. S. A. j Sure Relief ji > ‘6 BELLANS >| Hot water 7 == Sure Relief © BELLANS DON'T DENY IT. 1 SAW YOU KISS- ING THE COOK AM—RUT IT WASN'T THE WOMAN IN HER T KISSED; IT WAS THE CULINARY EXPERT Klods-Hans (Copenhagen) FOR INDIGESTION | 25¢ AND 75¢ PACKAGES EVERYWHERE comicbooks.com