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This page contains **advertising and humor content**, not political cartoons. The **Milano pipe advertisement** (left) uses a glamorous portrait to market hand-crafted Italian smoking pipes, emphasizing quality and aesthetic appeal. The **"Our Foolish Contemporaries" section** (center) reprints three humorous anecdotes from other publications: a dialect joke about an African American debtor threatening to burn a promissory note; a story by journalist William Allen White comparing labor strikes to mule drivers; and a joke about an astronomer's wife finding his hobby tedious. The **Edgeworth tobacco advertisement** (right) frames pipe smoking as a wartime discovery—a soldier found the tobacco during WWI and now, postwar, treasures it as a memory. This nostalgia marketing connects the product to patriotic experience. The **Allen's Foot-Ease advertisement** and smaller items fill remaining space. The page reflects early 20th-century advertising conventions and period humor, including casual racial stereotypes typical of that era's Life magazine.

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Milano No. 1747 is preferred by many pipe 7s because of its distinctwe shape and fine The Sweetest Pipe In The World | Get more pleasure from smoking— treat yourself to a really good pipe! Milanois hand-fashioned from century old Italian bria-—especially seasone to smoke sweet at the first puff and ssay sweet always. It makes the best tobacco taste better—and it’s just as good to look at as it is to smoke. Milano comes in 37 smart shapes, smooth finish, $3. 50 up. Rusticmodels, $4.00 up. All are ““nsured”’ for your protection, Look for the White ‘Triangle on the stem. We. DEMUTH & CO. World’s Largest Manufuct 230 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK rers of Fine Pipes LIrre OUR FOOLISA CONTEMPO ARIES pons A darky named S. from his friend Tom, and gave his note for the amount. Time w on, and the note became m rrowed $25 long past duc. One day the two met on the street ] with determinatior | when you goin’ t’ pay thet note | “I ain't got no money now,” replicd Sam, “but I'm goin’ to pay it soon as 1 kin.” “Yo! been sayin’ thet fer months,” re men torted Tom, “but it don't git me no ney. Ef y’ don’t pay thet money here } and now, y* know whut I'm goin’ t’ do } I'm goin’ to bi whar'll yo’ be at ¢ "will! Yas, yo? will!" S. es’ yo" burn dat note o' mine I'll pop a lawsuit onto yo'!” —Ontlook yer old note; then m In a Pinch, use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE Good Cause, but Slim In reply to a query leading a progressive campaign thus far this year, William Allen White illustrates the situation with a story: “Why don’t you strike s to why he isn’t asked the col lege professor of the Lawrence mule driver on the old street cars forty years when 1! a sixteen-hou! rter, with the professor heard the st for a dollar and 3 e's board thrown in rike? Strike, hell!" said the driver. “What a raging riot me and Bill, the other driver, and the two mules wo make charging down Massac on a hot day } « The Stargazer A New York writer is keenly inter- ested in astronomy. His wife is not, but is patient with his hobby. When visitors call he has them scanning the beavens | through the telescope said one “Isn't it interesting for yc enthusiastic visitor to the wife. “Yes,” she sometimes I think 1 ¢ joy things nearer home,"—O. O. McIntyre, in St. Louis G De Abbott's Bitters: 8 every ment of & tonte. by mally 25 eta to C. W, Abbott & Co, Baltimore, Md. Nasty Fixst Notxr Dame Stupext: Rockne wanted to get as far away from football be could during his vacation. rcoxp Ditto: Why didn’t he spend the winter at Harvard? —Notre Dame Juggler Graxoaa (looking up from paper): It says here that young women are abandoning all restrictions. Now, mind, don't let me catch you goin’ out without yours, Ethel !—Collier’s, War brought him his pipe-tobacco thrill While Mr. Ellender of London isn't in favor of war for the purpose of finding a better tobacco, nevertheless one of the unforgetable memories of the last one seems to be his discovery of Edgeworth, And the fact that Edgeworth tobacco is available throughout most of Europe has made it possible since the war for this Londoner to enjoy his pipe of peace. Read his“hands-across-th Larus & Bro. Co. Richmond, Va. U. S.A. Gentlemen I've just read in a magazine the re markable letter of the traveling man in Seattle, who smoked five-cighths of @ ton th tobacco, "letter: t know that th was wait- enjoyed. “Tt was a U.S. Army m my first can, and with couldn't be as good as 1 had smoked since 1911, & pipe T've smoked all ki the war with the British Aj amoked tea leaves when I tobacco—in fact, I sm would fill a pipe, but battles. Right from the first can I've “kept, to Edgeworth at Base 3, Headquarters See- tion of the United States Army. Your traveling man didnt have any like | have england for a worth is amply rewarded “Yes, who gave me idea that it doesn't bite the tongue ¢ that thirsty-after-smoking- feeling, and always comes in I have to hide my can, like I do, but I cannot dto supply them all. | Let them for it like I have done. Then they will enjoy it better. Yours very since Theodore Let us send you free samples of Edge- worth so that you may put it to the ipe test. If you ike the samples, you'll like Edge- worth wherever and whenever you buy it, for it never changes in quality. Write your name and ad- dress to Larus & Brother Company, 16-0 South 21st Street, Richmond, Va. We'll be grate- ful for the name and address of your tobacco dealer, too, if you care to add them. Edgeworth is sold in various sizes to suit the needs and means of all purchas- ers. Both Edgeworth Plug Slice and Edgeworth Ready-Rubbed are packed in small, pocket-size packages, in hand- some humidors holding a pound, and also in several handy in-between sizes. To Retail Tobacco Merchants: If your jobber cannot supply you with Edge- worth, Larus & Brother Company will gladly send you prepaid by parcel post a one- or two-dozen carton of any size of Edgeworth Plug Slice or Edgeworth Ready-Rubbed for the same price you would pay the jobber. Richmond, Va. — the Edgeworth On your radio—tune in on WRVA, station. Wave length 256 meters. comicbooks.com