This book is a collection of 30 comic strips in the series "Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers"/"Charlie Chaplin's Comic Capers". The original comicstrip ran from about March 1915, to about the middle of 1916. Originally written and illustrated by Stuart Wallace Carothers until he died, on October 4, 1915.
Elzie Crisler Segar seems a to have worked on the comic until its end. The comics were originally published by "Chicago Herald" a newspaper " and sold to various other newspapers through the "J. Keeley-Handy Syndicate".