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This page mixes charitable fundraising, product advertising, and corporate messaging typical of 1920s *Life* magazine. **The Louvain Library Fund** (top left): A post-WWI appeal seeking donations to rebuild Belgium's damaged Louvain Library as a memorial to American soldiers. This reflects 1920s philanthropic nationalism—America positioned itself as benevolent peacemaker. **"Grandfather Was Wise!"** (left): Advertisement for Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, a digestive remedy. The humor relies on stereotypes about elderly men's digestive troubles and the implied wisdom of using patent medicine rather than dietary changes. **"An Account of Stewardship"** (right): A Bell Telephone System advertisement marking the telephone's 50th anniversary (circa 1876). It praises Alexander Graham Bell's invention and celebrates the Bell System's massive growth—16 million phones, $3 billion in assets—framing telephone infrastructure as a public good binding the nation together. **"The Horrible Example"** (bottom): An incomplete humorous poem about a woman's fashion mishap, likely a moral cautionary tale about vanity. The page reflects 1920s corporate confidence and consumer culture alongside patriotic post-war sentiment.

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The Louvain Library Fund As little Belgium has now arranged for funding her debt to the United States, how would it be for us to follow suit by finishing the Louvain Library, just to show our country is not in- different, especially in this season of peace and good will? America absolutely premised the Bel- gians we would rebuild their Library, ty aid their recovery after ihe losses of the War, and construction work is now under way, but more money is needed. The new building is to be a memorial to our soldiers who died on foreign soil. Our friends have already sent us $47. Help us to make it $1,000 by Christmas, please, and after that, as much as you can spare, for our na- tional honor is involved in this Library matter Previously acknowledged... Eleanor L. Kelly, Cleveland M. W. Hager, Lancaster, z Grandfather Was Wise! Ever watch an old man indulge his ap- like a youngster who never heard digestion? Watch him_when he is ished—perhaps he takes a Stuart's tab- and that explains it! The gloomiest peptic could be eating butterscotch pie, if he only used Stuart's tablets. Is there 100% relief for dyspepsia—in- digestion—sour stomach? Yes! These ailments are not caused by what you eat. Give yd digestive system a chance, and it will function with almost any kind of food—even doughnuts; baked beans; dishes cooked with onions. Stuart's dys- pepsia tablets give your stomach the a/ka- dine it needs—and that’s all there is to it! Men and women of every age, in all walks of life, have sworn by Stuart’s—for more than thirty years. Hearty eaters— hard smokers—high livers—have found Stuart's a boon and blessing! Your First Box FREE! Any druggist in the land has Stuart’s dyspepsia tablets, A big boxis only 60c— they are less than a penny apiece! So, why suffer? Get a 25¢ metal box o! Stuart's for the pocket—and keepit filled. One box free if you write the F, A. Stuart Company, Dept. 8, Marshall, Mich. STUART’S DYSPEPSIA TABLETS An Account of Stewardship Firry years ago Dr. Alexander Graham Bell was busy upon a new invention—the telephone. The first sentence had not been heard; the Patent had not been filed; the demonstration of the telephone at the Centennial Ex- position had not been made. All these noteworthy events were to occur later in the year 1876. But already, at the beginning of the year, the basic principle of the new art had been discovered and Bell’s experiments were approach- ing a successful issue. The inventor of the telephone lived to see the telephone in daily use by millions all over the worl and to see thousands of develop- ments from his original discovery. If he had lived to this semi- centennial year, he would have seen over 16,000,000 telephones linked by 40,000,000 miles of wire spanning the American con- tinent and bringing the whole nation within intimate talking distance. He would have seen in the Bell System, which bears his name, perhaps the largest indus- trial organization in the world with nearly $3,000,000,000 worth of public-serving property, owned chiefly by an army of customers and employees. He would have seen developed from the product of his brain a new art, binding together the thoughts and actions of a nation for the welfare of all the people. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND AssociATED ComPANIES BELL SYSTEM aa IN ITS SEMI-CENTENNIAL YEAR THE BELL SYSTEM LOOKS FOR- WARD TO CONTINUED PROGRESS IN TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION The Horrible Example A sitty young lady named Wesson Went out with a very smart dress on; It flapped and it swayed, And that was what made Her, instead of a moron, a lesson. L..H. contrio- utors are represented, with their best work, in the CHRIST- MAS NUMBER—now on sale, LL of Live's _ finest sports or re- creations? Try HOSTETTER'S Celebrated Stomach Bitters—a wholesome tonic, appetizer and ive. At All Druggists ‘THE HOSTETTER.CO., A. rs HOSTETTER’S CELEBRATED STOMACH BITTERS comicbooks.com