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This page is entirely **advertising**, not editorial content or cartoons. It's a full-page advertisement for Little Blue Books, an inexpensive paperback series published by Haldeman-Julius Co. of Girard, Kansas. The ad announces a price increase from 5 cents to 10 cents after April 30, attributing this to rising manufacturing costs. It urges readers to order immediately at the lower price, calling it their "last chance" to get books cheaply. The bulk of the page lists available titles—hundreds of them—organized by catalog number, covering literature, philosophy, history, and practical topics typical of early-20th-century educational publishing. No political satire, cartoons, or jokes are present on this page.
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