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This page mixes advertising with humorous short pieces typical of 1920s satirical magazines. The main content includes: **"Fabulous Folks"** — A list of improbable, virtuous characters presented as satirical commentary on social types. Examples include "the traveling salesman who was true to his wife" and "the editor who occasionally accepted manuscripts"—implying these behaviors were so rare they were essentially fictional. The satire targets common stereotypes and human weaknesses of the era. **Short comic vignettes** like "Elsie's Unwelcome Visitor" (a child rejecting a fairy's gifts for boys and cigarettes), and "The Gambler" (mocking a deacon who abandons respectability for Florida real-estate speculation—likely referencing the 1920s Florida land boom). **"Motorcade"** — A playful note on new slang, suggesting the neologism follows the pattern of "cavalcade" but for motor cars. The ads (Johnston's Chocolates, Porto Rico cruises, Porto Rico Line shipping) reflect contemporary consumer culture. Overall, the page satirizes modern American social pretension, greed, and hypocrisy through gentle mockery rather than sharp political commentary.

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The Distinction of a Gift of Jobnston’s Chocolates Yeu will finda cy for Jobalten's one of 7 class Bores HE sophisticated giver well knows the value of John&on’s for paying social “debts,"— for Johnston's is always correct. The secret of its good-ness is one of a generation's standing. Today ... because of it, Johnston's has won a pinnacle place among the nethings thathavebecome in your neighbourhood. ROBE Jou NEW YORK te MILWAUKER Treasure Hunt Mxs. § I haven't seen your husband lately Mes. Brows: No: he's hunting for his overskoes. opopy can accuse the tabloid papers of reverting to type. PORTO RICO a 11 DAYS 150 att, Expenses To the Island of Enchantment NEW STEAMSHIP COAMO NOW IN SERVICE 1G, comfortable steamers your hotel 3" erful cruise. Option Vander ° Wide range of ac esque motor sigh rote. setices every Thursday. se Department POR’ TO RICO LIN ‘ew York ( 5 Broadway, part of our daily lives. STON OMPANY MINNEAL BAN FRANCISCO Elsie’s Unwelcome Visitor Tue little fairy came to Elsie “What would you like, my dear the fairy What else?” A bus of my own.” “Don't you want some little dolls tc play with and some candy?” cried Elsie, “but you can send ich of boys and some cigar tut, dear,” said the fairy, “that wouldn't be good for you.” ! You talk like Ancient His Be yourself, fairy, or I won't with you.” Elsie heaved a brick and the fairy vanished in a mist of tears The Gambler Deacon Dan was a Godly man, Who wouldn't play penny an But he sold his home and frying pan For a Florida bog and shanty! Wes asked why he had tion ess, Henry Ford ex plained that it is a lot of fun. He'll have to think up a better excuse than that ered the Fabulous Folks (Fabulous to the anecdote hound, at any rate) Tut bride who succeeded in placing an order with her butcher without lay g herself open to The married man’s stenographer who had brunette hair head instead of and kept it on her his coat lapel The French girl (war time) who was The old gentleman who passed a small boy weeping in the street and proved to be anything but benevolent The aforesaid small boy who resisted the temptation to wise-crack. he husband who was genuinely glad to welcome his wife's relatives The poet who made money. The boot! didn’t The traveling salesman who was true to his wife and went to bed (in a non- crowded hotel) at nine o'clock, The second lieutenant who was a reg ilar fellow The colored man who never stole a chicken and always had a job. The wife of the cok who did not take in laundry for of whose propos! p; (b) did non-grafting Prohibition enforce ment agent The editor who oce: accepted manuscrip! The business man who was actually engaged 1 important o when a visitor was kept 1 The minister's son who declined to live up to traditions by becoming a holy terror The bedtime broadcaster who was really a sweet, motherly woman. The Hollywood director who had n interest in the extra One Irishman, preferably named Walter T. B. Motorcade Meet the latest new word—motor- cade. It has found its way into print king im- patiently at the door of Messrs. Funk & Wagnalls. Motorcade on first ac- intance has a way of staggering the and is doubtless already kr innocent bystander. Certainly any one who attempts to get in the way of mo torcade is likely to be more than stag- gered, for motorcade means a procession of motor cars, The Past had its caval- cade; the Present has its motorcade. In the bright lexicon of the future we shall doubtless have to make way for air- cade, Or will it be acrocade or perhaps Whichever it may be, its ad vent seems certain, and those of us who don't make wa avicade? for aircade (or aero- cade or avicade) will make just so many fewer jay-fliers for the world to con jure with, comicbooks.com