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This page is primarily **advertising rather than satirical content**. The right side features a full-page advertisement for the S.S. France cruise ship, promoting Mediterranean and Moroccan voyages departing January 7, 1928. The left side contains: 1. **"Copy Reader's Nightmare"** — a humorous poem listing absurd newspaper headlines in rapid succession, satirizing sensationalist journalism and the chaos of newsroom production. 2. **"Agreeable"** and **"A Good Inspiring Sermon"** — brief, unrelated humorous anecdotes. The visual content appears to be a photograph of what the caption identifies as the "Island of Monte Cristo, Marseilles," accompanying the cruise advertisement. This is essentially a **travel advertisement with filler humor content**, typical of Life magazine's mixed editorial/commercial format of the 1920s.

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t —<—$—+——— ———— Copy Reader’s Nightmare (Note: We may as well warn you that this is one of those poems in prose.) B UTY Winner Enters Suit Young Bride Brands Aged Hus- band Brute headlines headlines head- lines drilling through a tortured mind Banker's Wife Now Seeks Divorce Girl Says She Was Drugged by Force can’t I can't I can’t I ever leave those things behind Poison | Liquor Claims Its Toll Charges Chorus Girl Took Roll headlines headlines headlines making agony of sleep Auto Joyride Ends in Death Cop Names Slayer in Last Breath jumbled mumbled headlines pile to- gether in a heap Airmen Off to Cirele Globe Mayor Demands De- partment Probe if I don’t get some relief I'll just break down and sob He'll Grant Million She Asks Ten Vice Crusaders Raid Dope Den why in thunderation did I ever take this job Seven Killed as Taxis Crash Men in Movie Tried to Mash no that last will never fit the units have to add Pastor Flays This Jazzy Life Hubby Spurned by Week Wed Wife think to-morrow I'll enroll in some home for the mad Texas Mob Goes Out to Lynch Married Man Sur- prised in Clinch slumber slumber slumber come and soothe a fevered brain Bellevue Crowded with Rum Crazed Says He Murdered Cop’ While Dazed never never never in my life will I be sane Big Increase Revealed in Crime Shot in Quarrel Over Dime wonder how you go about to buy some cyanide More Ball Players Named in Graft Claims He Won Her Love by Craft still some people think it’s wrong to take up suicide Super Bandit Trapped and Caught Charges Million Votes Were | Bought wish I had a gun around or handy piece of rope Supper Clubs | | Refuse to Close *Pastor Scourges Unclean Shows same to-night and evermore O Lord ain't there no hope Law Enforcement Here Is Lax Farmer Slays Two Sons with Axe now and then I almost doze then wake up with a jerk Social Leaders Open Shop Censorship Decided Flop headlines headlines headlines—guess I'll get to work. Tip Bliss. Agreeable | OD: I hear Stella is a girl who always has a kind word for every one. | Top: Sure! She'll say “Yes” to anything. GOOD inspiring sermon helps people in several ways. Some rise from it greatly strengthened. Others wake from it refreshed. i Istand of Monte Cristo, Marecilies Mediterranean and Moroccan Cruises Amid Parisian Atmosphere with renowned French Cuisine OU can't take time fora long Mediterranean cruise?«+Here's the shortest, the gayest, the newest, the smartest! evs Straight across the South Adantic to Vigo, Spain . . down the great African coast to Casablanca . . biggest, busiest port in Morocco, with Arabian Nights + See Rabat, its rugs, embroideries, and barbaric jewelry es» Then off for Gibraltar and on to Algiers . . ““Paris-in-Africa"’*»Naples, Nice and the whole Riviera at the height of the season . . Marseilles, where east meets west . . . .and home via Naples, Algiers and Cadiz with thirty thousand memories that come in duty free! S. S. FRANCE From New York, January 7, 1928 European shore excursions in chatge of: Thos. Cook & Son. Second Cruise, Feb. 8 Third Cruise, Mar. 14 Turopean shore excursions in charge European shore excursions in charge The American Express Co of: En Route Service, Inc All North Africa shore excursions managed by The North African Motor Tours of the French Line The France nas a chic like no other ship .. a cuisine to dream about. Your hosts, the French, are supreme in North Africa .. and who know the Riviera better? Choose your sailing . . stop over wherever you like and pick up the France on her next trip... shore excursions arranged by well-known tourist agencies ... or return via Havre on Ile de France or Paris. . . the ship for the cruise . . . Round trip, $550. Sreneh Line Illustrated Brochure and Deck Plans from any French Line Agent or recognized Tourist Ofice or write direct to 19 State Street, New York City of stay with comicbooks.com