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This page contains primarily **advertisements and feature articles** rather than political satire. The main content includes: 1. **The Hollenden Hotel ad** (left): A straightforward hotel advertisement emphasizing the establishment's 30-year reputation, combining "tradition and novelty." 2. **"The Terms" section** (right): A humorous dialogue, apparently from a comic strip or cartoon, depicting negotiations between characters named "Black" and "White" regarding peace terms—likely satirizing post-WWI peace negotiations, with absurdist humor about payment (a limousine and meals). 3. **"Our College Boys"** (bottom): An article discussing college men's roles in WWI, arguing that educational institutions should receive more recognition for their patriotic contributions. 4. **Fashion advertisement** (right): A "Where Fashion Walks" ad for F.B. & C. Kid leather shoes. The page reflects early 20th-century concerns: wartime patriotism, hotel commerce, and fashion marketing.

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HHHHHHHHHHHH (S93) HHHHHHHHHHH' Our College Boys brought many long-suffering and Why You Think Hollenden When You Say Cleveland HHIRTY years ago The Hollenden was a good hotel. In every year between then and now The Hollenden has been made better, by renovation, new additions, improvements and the steady in- sistence upon everything that is best. It is the only hotel in the city that combines tradition and novelty—that exhibits the stability of maturity with the freshness of youth—that has had a natural, vital growth with the progress of the social and business life of the community— that knows how to do things well because it has been doing them well for a long time. For dignity without ostentation; for quality without sham; for service that is more than a promise; for comfort and cooking that have made a national reputation; for all the things you like in a private club and expect ata good hotel—register at The Hollenden on your next visit to Cleveland. Most convenient to all stations. European Plan with Bath. For One Person $2 to $5. For Two Persons $3 to $6. With Twin Beds $4 to $6. Suites at various prices, e Hollender Clevel months at war have HHH HHHHHHHHH the ranks, and an impartial analysis would demonstrate that the football heroes of the schools were far. more mm (| HHHHHHHHHHHHH H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H Hil H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H cynical parents to realize that American colleges are institutions with a deeper and more permanent purpose than the encouragement of athletics, the origina- tion of haberdashery fashions and the breeding of silk-sock socialists. Hardly a college of any description, even cor- respondence, but has representation in prompt to respond to the call for real battle than are the gunmen bravados of the big cities. When the full, authentic story is told of the part played by college men in this war, the hackneyed sneer, so popu- lar with imperfectly self-made men, at the college education, will be about as vogue as the iron cross. “OH! THE LANGUAGE AIN'T HAKD. as {LER A FEW PHRASES AND ‘EMBRASSEZ-MOI" ‘Je Vous AIME’ YE WON'T HAVE NO TROUBLE.” The Terms On what terms did the mpsons agree on peace? Wurte: She is to restore his den and three meals a day, and he is to pay her an indemnity consisting of one limousine ! ISDOM is wasted on a fool; but, no matter to whom it year’s subscription to Lir wasted as a Christmas gift. Where Fashion Walks On the Avenue — at the Matinee, Shocs of Kid in colors to match the costume are always worn. “P. B. & C." Kid is always used in Golden Brows No. 21, Field Mouse No, 88, Battleship Gray No. . Pearl Gray No. 61, Tabasco Brown No. 3 d_Ivory No. 40, as whole shoes or with tops ot “F.B.&C.” Vashable Glazed Kid “No.” Whole shoes made of “F, B, & €.% White Wasb- able Glazed Kid “No. 81° are superlatively smart. This leather requires no mussy dressing to keep its new and unblemished appearance. “P.B.&C." Kid is the only leather that “Fitson the Foot like FASHION PUBLICITY CO. of N lew Yor “E.B.&C. Kid comicbookg