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This page is primarily **advertising and light humor content** rather than political satire. **Main Advertisement:** A Simoniz car polish ad featuring a photograph of a man in a hat reading while driving. The copy emphasizes that Simonizing is a restoration process, not merely polish, that restores "lasting luster" to car finishes—a pitch to 1920s motorists concerned with maintaining their automobiles' appearance. **"Mrs. Pep's Diary"** (continued from earlier): A domestic humor column describing a society woman's mundane activities—tea dates, managing household accounts, reading Theodore Dreiser. The humor derives from middle-class social pretensions and marital observations. **Minor items include:** - Canadian Pacific bungalow camp advertisement - A "Fairy Story" joke about a husband promising (then actually) cleaning the cellar - "Through with the Game"—a joke about Cinderella discarding golf clubs at midnight - Ads for air sickness remedy and other products The page reflects 1920s concerns: automobile care, leisure travel, domestic comedy, and consumer products. No significant political content is present.

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LIFE - TREATMENT FOR ALL CARS Simonizing is a simpleprocess” Which anyone canuse—it is not a mere polish. Its really the way lo restore the lasting luster and to bring out the rich beauty of DUCO and the lacquer finishes ALWAYS SIMONIZ A NEW CAR Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 17) diately, At the five-and-ten! because that is the response I hear most fre- quently to such a demand, but I was not correct, nor did Amy deem my error so amusing as did the others. To the Plaza for tea with Zella and Arthur Grover, and then home to spend the evening with Samuel over our books, cach of us looking up wi boat whistle blew on the river I am so desirous to be tak voyage at the moment that | almost willing to be deported on a con- vict ship in order to get it. May aia: was ina hig 3rd snversatj ; loath to leave for his office, declaring conver mood. truer word was never spoken than Os- car Wilde's epigram about work's be ing the curse of the drinki but I did finally get him off relief, and fell to my accounts, from classes, my great the casting up of which I did emerge with a psychology somewhat to the effect that if it be true that there is no ointment without its fly, it certa not true that there is no fly with ointment, To call on me come Janie Searles, but I did not press her to stop for lunchcon, having no mind or stomach to watch her consume the deli es of the season whilst I ned vegetable juices, and be- sipped s ing also anxious to get on with my book, “An American Tragedy,” by Theodore Drei so eng before I knew it, it was ti tea to Marge Phyllis Leggett with a pair of marine glasses swung from her shoulder and Boothby’s. Found th the explanation that, having just been to hear Raquel Meller from the topmost gallery, she had thereby been able to see something as well. And Oliver Perry, too, telling how Mr. Pigcon, who sails around the world by himseli is thereby asked more foolish question than any other living man, told all the ladies who wanted to know what he did for milk that he was weaned before he started....Dined he a small Florentine screen between us, alone with Sar forasmuch as he had spinach soup and clam fritters. Baird Leonard. Fairy Story NCE there was a young hust who said to his wife, “Next Sat- urday I will clean up the cellar and the back yard!” And he did. Through with the Game Teac ZR: What happened to C 1 derella at the stroke of twelve Jimmy: She threw away her clubs in disgust. You'll sing for joy! RAILS to hike and ride— peaks to climb — snow and ice and sweaters in July! And what an appetite you put on — satisfy —ride offand meet again on a holiday like this — without frills or hotel prices. Nine Bungalow Camps — with refrains that roar from camp fires to snowy mountain tops with cosy bungalow cabins—A-1 kitchens and chefs. So easy to reach! Rates only $5.50 a day. Ask for the Bungslow Camp Booklet and information and rates— mention B. C.-6. Canadian Pacific Hotel Department, Windsor Station, Montreal Or local Canadi. Offices A Charge Account THE ght Brigade charged i V Jalley of Death, Promptly according to schedule, Cannon to rig And ditt of them Volleyed The Bri; red, halted; The brave spurred his horse alot And crie« If we fall—we'll ‘orward, six } Another joke Cheaper than New Ones “YVEY do you move every year?” “Because the ni s seen all my wife's dresses. —nausea, dizziness and caused by all forms of Tra tion. Sea, Train, Auto, Car or Air kness yields promptly to 36 at Drug Stores or direct The Mothersill Remedy Co., Ltd. New York Montreat comicbooks.com