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LymanHenry, that is a very nice example of an early CJ box but it is definitely not from 1914/1915. The 1915 box looked like this:
The answer to your question is in Issue #9 (Fall 2006) of Old Cardboard magazine as per the following excerpts:
1) From page 23 (side panel; the same point is also made by JimB earlier in this thread): "... the [logo of] the now familiar Sailor Jack and his dog Bingo ... was not introduced until 1918--a few years after the baseball card sets were issued."
2) From the magazine cover and page 21 (illustration across lower portion of page): An image of the CJ box (the one in the above scan) was taken from a period poster promoting the 1915 baseball cards. The image of the box on the same poster as examples of the 1915 cards almost certainly shows the box design to be the same as the one that was used to distribute the cards.
Hope this helps.
Lyman