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This page contains primarily **advertisements and miscellaneous content** rather than political cartoons requiring historical context. The main cartoon ("When there's a pretty girl around") depicts a domestic humor scenario: a man repeatedly gets assigned the task of squeezing orange juice at parties while his female companion dances with others. The joke plays on dated gender role expectations—men performing menial kitchen tasks while missing social opportunities. The ad promotes a mechanical juice extractor as the solution, positioning it as a labor-saving device that would free men from this undesirable duty. **Mrs. Pep's Diary** is a gossip column recounting social observations and anecdotes, including a story about Eugene Field (a 19th-century American writer known for practical jokes) and discussions about theater and social behavior among the writer's acquaintances. The other content consists of advertisements for Bell-Ans indigestion remedy, Cortez cigars, and the Seald Sweet juice extractor. There are no significant political references or satirical commentary on this particular page.

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32 Life Sure Relief ; Hot water Sure Relief ELL-ANS FOR INDIGESTION 25¢ and 75¢ Pkg's.Sold Everywhere When . theres 2 pretty girl around, Are you the Patsy who squeezes oranges in the pancry while somebody clse—ahem— guides her through the mazes of the dance’ Are you even robbed of visual joy in her presence by the juice that the old fashioned squcezer lets fly? We know a man who had this happen to him so often that it took all the hope out of life! What did he do? One sunny day he signed on the dotted line and thereafter re- moved the delicious juice from Seald Sweet grapefcuit and oranges, deftly, with a Seald Sweet Extractor. This great little machine should be on every entertainmentcommittec. Itdoes the best extracting job you've ever scen—clean, quick and thoroughly; handling an over: grown grapefruit as easily as the tiniest orange. Try grapefruit juice. It’s a deli- cious change and there's more of it. The next time you're elected juice pro- vider there's sure to be a pretty girl in the offing. A word to the wise should be sutfi- cient. Get onc of these time and eye saving extractors today! And remember there's one-fourth mere juice 1 Florida Seald Sweet fruit! The Seald Sweet Extractor gets all the luscious juice from each Seald Sweet orange or grape fruit. Itsregular price is $3.00 —postage prepaid. $3.25 West of the Rockies, We will send it to you for $1.50 and 36 Seald Sweet orange or grape fruit wrappers, Check & mail the coupon The Florida Citrus Exchan; 1005 Citrus Exchange Bldg. Tampa, Florida [My check here is for one Seald Sweet Juice Extractor. $3.00—$3.25. My check here is for one Seald Sweet Juice Extractor $1.50 and 36 Seald Sweet wrappers enclosed. Name. Address Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 11) on the London-Edinburgh train at every stop until he aroused the curiosity of a fellow traveller, who inquired the cause of his restless- ness. Said the Scotchman, “I have just been to London to consult a heart specialist. He tells me I may die any minute, so I'm buying my ticket from station to station.” Lay late, reading in penis Slason Thompson's Life 12th of Eugene Field, and astonished to learn that Field was so fond of practical joking. Me- thinks he would have had to be a very lovable character indeed to be excused for such a social defection, as, apparently, he was. When I did come, however, to the part which de- scribes his having sent one of his extracted teeth to a young woman as a wedding present, I did close the book with the conviction that I did know all about him that I needed to know, and had liefer let him rest on his literary, laurels. ...Mitty Earle to luncheon with me, with such an exhausting stream of talk and so little good to say of anybody or any- thing, that after her departure I was minded of the reason which Herbert Spencer gave for breaking with his which was that she had “a 1 in a state of incessant activity.” Ben Lytle in at tea time, telling me of the stenographer in his office who said she thought that, while “Broadway” was a good enough show in a way, it was too much like what happened in a girl's daily life, and that when she went to the theatre she wanted to be taken a little farther from reality. Sam home early, bringing with him a client from Pekin whom he intro- duced as “a great big opium and cocaine man from the East,” which started a discussion as to the pro- nunciation of “cocaine,” from which Sam emerged saying, “My head is bloody but unbowed,” when he really should have said it was bony but un- bowed, for Lord! he will never ad- mit himself to be in the wrong on such points, and when the authori- ties fail to uphold him on any error which he may make, he falls back on the assertion that he has reverted to Old English. Baird Leonard. L0°r% on page 12 for the winners of Alibi Number Three and for the newest Alibi Contest picture. All of Live’s readers are urged to partici- pate in this amusing Contest, as many thousands have al- ready done. RUS! TERMINAL PRINTING CORPORATION, BROOKLYN MrW YORK TRAFFIC OFFICER: “ my throat. I gotta b: i fumes, all Ttold the chief I'd soon need a gas “We chauffeurs get it, fold me to si couple. You'll get q1 NOTE: The beneficial and exclusive menthel blend in Luden's Cough Drops brought comfert and quick relief over @ billion times I it year te sufferers from irritated th oughy, c. bu den’ 80 aw the king. In the yellow package= ( OF BRAINS Cortes. 1GARS| “MADE AT KEY WEST— Memory Test for Veteran’ Comic Strip Fans HAT ever became of— Fluffy Ruffles? The Yellow Kid? Perey the Mechanical Man? Foxy Grandpa? The Tiny Tads? Willie Westinghouse Smith? Mr. E. Z. Mark? Groucho the Monk? Buster Brown? If any or all of the above are liv- ing and in retirement, why have they not written their memoirs for (a) The Saturday Evening Post ot (b) Liberty? Big Laughs of the Past “ait not!” sip NERO TO ROME, AND OBLIGED WITH THE_JAZzZ. comicbooks.com