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This page is primarily **advertisements and publishing news** rather than political satire or editorial cartoon content. The main editorial content discusses **The Brazier**, a trench newspaper produced by Canadian soldiers (16th Battalion, Canadian Scottish) fighting in France during World War I. The piece humorously quotes the publication's excuse for poor print quality—that shrapnel got into the printer's ink—and jokes about requesting a "tin hat" (military helmet) to protect the ink-can. The satire here is **gentle wartime humor**: it contrasts the real hardships of producing a newspaper under combat conditions with American editors' complaints about difficulties in peacetime publishing. The implicit message is that American publishers should stop complaining about trivial problems. The rest of the page consists of period advertisements for typing courses, health belts, a hotel, and patent services—typical of early-20th-century magazine advertising.

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The masthead of this inter- esting little paper announces that Piper George Inglis is the Editor and Manager, and makes the statement that contributions should be sent care of The Brazier, 16th Battalion, the Canadian Scottish. Editors who complain of the difficulties of getting out a paper here in America should take heart of grace after reading such no- tices as the following, quoted in The Bra: from the Western Scot, a contemporary publication: Excuse this paper if it is sort of blotchy. The printer got most of the shrapnel out of the ink, but not all. We're trying to get the Q. M. to issue a tin hat for the ink-can. The dominant note in these little ebulli- tions of good spirits in their checriness. There is a comforting absence of hatred for the enemy; in fact, many of the remarks seem to show that Tommy considers Fritz a good fellow, whom he is unfortunately at war with, and whom he will “get””—always with the reservation that Fritz doesn’t “get” him first—but toward whom he cherishes no personal animosity beyond the natural peevishness that any man might show toward another who disturbed his slumber with large-calibre shells. The fol- lowing bit culled from The Brazier’s columns is certainly not inspired by any detestation for the enemy: A NOVEL IN A NUTSHELL Documentary Evidence, or a Romance of War Extract from the Puddletown News, Oct. 11, 1014: Miss Sophonisba Smith is visiting her aunt at Mistletoe Cottage. Leave of Absence. Mudhill Camp, Oct. 12, 1914. 1234567 Pte. J. Brown has per- mission to be absent from his quarters until Reveille, Oct. 15, 1014, for the purpose of visiting Puddletown. (Signed) W. Firebra Col, ©. C. of the Umpty-Umpth Bs (iii) Extract from Conduct Sheet, Oct. 18, 191g: No. 1234567 Pte. J. Brown, absent without leave, 14 days C. B. Copy of Receipt. J. Brown— Dr. to Messrs. Buyem & Sellem, Jewelers, Puddletown. TolRingg- - = 2 15 © Received payment with thanks, Nov. sth, rorg. (i) Extract from Rum Creek Gazette, Rum Creek, Alberta, March sth, 1015: Advices from the front indicate that the Rum Creek boys with the Ump- ty-Umpth are now in France, etc., ete. Gi) Various receipts for parcels, signed by J. Brown, March to October, 1915. iii) Leave Warrant No. X12374- ‘ov. 1, 1915. No 1234567 Pte. J. Brown is pro- ceeding to England on leave. Des- tination, Puddletown. Returning, Sec. I (i) Big businessmen . started reading the “Men Who Are Making America,” now running in Leslie’s, because it was being written by B.C. FORBES, the country’s lead- ing industrial and financial writer. Big and little bus- inessmen and the rest of the country, too, are reading it now, because they realize that /¢ 7s the greatest history of American modern enterprise ever COmM- piled. - The Story of Darwin P. Kingsley in this week’s issue Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper 225 Fifth Avenue New York City father i reproacl It Se face wa Lele it Well Yourself