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This page is primarily **advertising and social commentary**, not political satire in the traditional sense. The main content includes: 1. **Davey Tree Expert Company advertisement** (left): A business-focused pitch emphasizing professional tree surgery services, contrasting careful expertise against amateur "experimentation." The accompanying photo shows an oak tree, establishing credentials. 2. **"Mrs. Pep's Diary" (center)**: A gossipy society column where the unnamed diarist discusses weight anxiety, servant problems (the departure of a household maid named Angie), and a conversation about the novel "Trilby"—revealing period preoccupations with class status, domestic help availability, and literary culture. 3. **Prohibition-era jokes** (right): Humor playing on 1920s alcohol bans ("Smoking prohibited," "Spitting prohibited," "It is prohibited to stand or ride on the platform"). 4. **Product advertisements**: Reddy Tee golf balls and imported French tea services/cutlery. The page reflects 1920s concerns: domestic servant scarcity, weight consciousness, Prohibition enforcement, and consumer goods marketing.

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Life | perfectly over Dave: kon the estate of Mr. aine, 11, Brookline, Mass. cement fill- | | A half million trees saved in 25 years Davey Tree Surgeons never experiment on your trees; they bring you thorough training, proved methods, standardized practices, organization disci- pline, personal reliability and business stability Saving trees is both a business and a pro- fession with Davey Tree Surgeons. It has taken 25 years to build this remarkable or- ganization of nearly 700 trained men. Good men are carefully selected, the wrong kind are eliminated, and those who remain are thoroughly trained not only in the technique of correct Tree Surgery but also in the re- lated sciences and professional ethics. If you think of your trees as living things, if they are worth saving, they are worth proven Tree Surgery. Don't let any one ex- periment on them. The service of Davey Tree Surgeons is reasonable in cost — infi- nitely less expensive than experiments. These master Tree Surgeons live and work in your vicinity, are quickly available, and no carfare is charged. THE DAVEY TREE EXPERT CO., INC. 430 City Bank Building Kent, Ohio Attach this coupon to your letterhead and mail today Reg. U. S. Pat. Of. THE DAVEY TREE EXPERT CO., Inc., JOHN DAVEY 430 City Bank Bldg., | Father of Kent, Ohio Tree Surgery Gentlemen: Without cost or obligation on my part, please have your local rep- resentative examine my trees and advise me as to their condition and needs. Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 13) concerned about her weight that she flushes guiltily when she reads on the bronze placard of an elevator that its capacity is limited to twelve or fifteen hundred pounds. I do doubt seriously if I myself can ever again go upon a regimen, having found out that my husband, poor wretch, when he was encouraging me by appearing to abstain also from fattening provender, did fill himself up daily with a good meal at the Racquet Club before coming home. Marge did tell me that the Searles’ marvelous colored servant, Angie, has gone back to Kentucky, finding the work too onerous without the assistance of a kitchen maid or wait- ress, and telling Lucy Searles, apro- pos of serving the meals in courses. that there “too much a-shifti of the dishes for the fewness of the victuals, - This night to see a mo- tion picture called “Varie was especially astonished’ to learn from it that trapezists can keep such late hours and consume so much liquor without imperiling their lives at their profession. July A-talking all h agth morning with Sam, he more audibly regretful than ever that he had not inherited a vast fortune which would make him a stranger to toil, and I must set down for myself that there are moments when it seems entirely un- reasonable that some of my forbears did not invent lemonade straws or revolving doors or get in on the ground floor of the Standard Oil in- dustry. It did come out during the course of our conversing that I have never read “Trilby seemed to aston proportion to its importance, for when I did ask him to recount the plot to me, I could not sce wherein it possessed much charm or distine- tion, but Sam did swear that my hy was due to his deficiencies as raconteur, and did tell me that strong men had not only broken down and sobbed over the story when it was ia its heyday, but had actu- ally worn silver slippers in their lapels in tribute to its popularity. Lord! I wonder what he would do if he found out that my only ac- quaintance with “Alice in Wonder- land” comes from hearsay. I do now mark in my husband another sign that he is not so young as he was, for several times he did say “a couple of years ago” when what he was speaking of had really occurred anywhere from six to ten years ago. Baird Leonard. the carly Tuey put sand on rail- road tracks to stop trains, Why slow-up your drives with sand from the tee box? ~ 40> >a, Forsféds ita aids and ean t'yoar balXfrom GB Hoo DIM he Croepe Ask for Reddy Tees by name. Play the yellow or the red. Both weinners, both “Reddy.” One Piece, and shite birch from tip to cup. 25¢ FOR A* BOX OF 18 The Nieblo Manufacturing Co., toc. 38 East 23rd Street, New York ” Other Prohibition fokex GORING prohibited. Spitting prohibited. Trespassing prohibited. It is prohibited to stand or ride on the platform while the train is in motion, It is prohibited to walk on the rail- road tracks. It is prohibited to walk o+ throw papers on the grass. E. 1. B. Juststickitin the turf and 3-h-o-0-t Sure Signs OTOR TOURIST: Aha! We're getting near to a big city now. Notice the two- and three-story bill- boards? | Charming Colorful TEA, FRUIT or HORS D’CEUVRE Sets from France $5 for six Knives OR Forks OR Spoons in Goal Fink Leaf Green French Blue Lapis Blue Amber Yellow MRS. F. CARLETON 12 East 55th Street New York comicbooks.com