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This page is primarily **advertisements** interspersed with one substantive editorial piece. The main non-advertising content is "The Predicament of the Seminoles," which advocates for the approximately 500 remaining Seminole Indians in Florida's Everglades—descendants of those who escaped removal during the Indian Wars of the 1830s-40s. The piece criticizes development projects (drainage schemes, land speculation) that are destroying their hunting grounds and threatens their tenuous legal status. It notes their treaty rights are merely "paper" and argues the state should establish a formal reservation with protected land access, agricultural resources, and federal protection against encroachment by tourists, settlers, and traders. The satire is gentle: Life is shaming Florida's indifference to its indigenous population while colonial development proceeds unchecked. The piece appeals to readers' sense of justice regarding a marginalized group facing displacement. The page's advertisements include Nylo Chocolates, photography services, typewriters, and cruise lines—typical early-20th-century commerce.

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More than 16,000 of the best druggists in America sell “NYLO” Chocolates. There is one of them right near you. Sixty cents to $1.50 the pound—and sold only at “‘Nyal’” Drug Stores — to assure you against substitution—the “Nyal’’ Drag Store is ever high class. We know that if you can know the superior goodness of “Nylo” Chocolates, you will buy them in preference to all others. We ask your personal test. Send us 10c (stamps of silver, to pay for packing and postage) and we will send you, prepaid, a full quarter pound box of (assorted) NY LO os Chocolates Y ill find them all we promise; of the highest le Ye rl fd Shen ll we proces of he Behe com ee and nut centers, No ‘attificial flavors or colors used. It will pay you to go to the “NYAL” Drug Store—you will see the “Nyel” trade mark on the door ot window. Send 10c for the sample. Address NYAL COMPANY, 1253 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich. The Predjcament of the Semi- noles IX the Everglades of Florida live about five hundred Seminole In- dians, descendants of those who were left in Florida after the days of Osceola, when their brethren were moved to Indian Territory. Our good offices are besought in behalf of these Indians whose affairs are not in a good case nor their future at all secure. They are peaceable people, asking nothing and harming no_ one understand there is a seventy-y treaty with the Federal Go that recognizes them and gives them rights to live and hunt in the E glades. But of late years there h: been projects to drain that great swamp, and extensive speculation in land to be reclaimed. The Seminoles are not quite so badly off as if they Portfolio Photography What woukl you not give fora picture of your son ordaughter or Some one equally dear toyou? De= ferred intentions often cause regrets. Photographic likenesses in the latest art portfolio mountings insuring permanent preservation are the specialty of Francisca Bostwick. Your time and convenience not intruded upon. Appointments for studio or home sittings by correspondence. Highest references. Francisca Bostwick 19 West 31st Street, New York. VISIBLE OLIVER TYPEWRITER Nothing Down—Free Trial. Less than Agents’ Prices. Shipped on approval. If you want to keep it, send us $4a month. Our booklet is worth sending for, because it tells W you how to save $41.50. It’s FREE, /RITERS D: ISTRIBUTING SYNDICATE bad P.7 TIN. Michiven Boulevard, CHICAGO” a If Your Wine Merchant, Drussiat or Grocer Docs Not Our Ri Write Tie Name jearest Distribut Keep Our RYTON & SON SOUTH BOSTON | lton’s 1 Coyskal Spring Rum had speculated in these lands, but their habitations have been mussed up by dredges, sport has suffered in their hunting grounds, lands have been sold that had been theirs for genera- tions; things ahead look precarious and blue to them, and William Bow- legs, their hereditary chieftain, has anxious hours, The State of Florida might provide for them at small cost if its mind could be kept on their needs. But it can’t. If their navy were stronger they might enforce their treaty with the United States—if they really have one—and the land-grant it carries. But their navy has run down and their treaty is paper. What is wanted for them is a per- manent title to a tract of land giving them access to salt water, with duc agricultural possibilities, and Federal protection against intrusion from tour- ists, settlers, traders, hunters and pur- veyors of rum—that is to say, a small Indian reservation in Florida. We invite the attention of the com- passionate and others, including the State of Florida, the Indian Bureau, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Board of Indian Commissioners, to this remnant of the Seminoles. A few tracts of land could now be bought for them—so we learn from Mrs. M. Moore-Wilson, of Kissimee, Florida— if the money could be found. E. S. M. First Cettic: I understand you saw Scribbler’s new comedy last night. Who played the hero? Seconp Critic: I did. I sat through the whole thing.—Tit-Bits. Cruises Every Saturday we WEST INDIES “* PANAMA CANAL Cuba, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Nicaragua By Popular “PRINZ” Steamers of our ATLAS SERVICE $85.50 11lto18DAYS .... 25 DAY CRUISES. . . PANAMA CANAL (Round Trip) . Fall information on request HAMBURG. AMERICAN 41-45 Broadway, N. Y. maak Boston Baltimore Chicago New Orleans Minn cay Pittsburgh St. Louis ‘Montreal Sun Francisco comicbooks.com Re ep ww mm}