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This is primarily **advertising content, not satire or cartoon**. The page promotes the newly opened Hotel Statler in Buffalo, New York, positioned as a stopover en route to Niagara Falls (22 miles away). The advertisement emphasizes luxury amenities—1,100 rooms with bathing facilities, twin-bed rooms from $7, and single rooms from $3.50—along with five transportation options to Niagara Falls. A notable section titled "Statler Service is Guaranteed" outlines the hotel's customer service philosophy, promising attentive staff treatment. The page also mentions other Statler Hotels in Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, and the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York. This represents straightforward early-20th-century hospitality marketing rather than satirical commentary.

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_ Entered as Second Class rqunder the act of Entere Second Class wMatier at the Po ter at the Post OM id and the Briti Matter June 8, 1483. at the Post Omce at New York, ad, 1879. in Bethlehem e at Bethlehe acs, Department, {nthe ‘United ‘States: Eng To Go to Niagara— Come to Buffalo There are some new and attractive reasons for including Niagara Falls—and Buffalo— in your vacation trip, this year. One of them is the NEW Hotel Statler at Buffalo, where you can live in comfort and luxury, only twenty-two miles from the Falls, and take your choice of five different ways of making the short and pleasant trip. The new Statler is on Niagara Square, where Delaware Avenue begins; it has 1100 rooms, 1100 baths—including 169 twin-bed rooms (from $7, for two) and 104 parlor suites; single rooms are from $3.50. The former Hotel Statler is now known as Hotel Buffalo; and the old Hotel Iroquois has been closed. Another reason for vacation- ing in this territory is 2000 miles of new paved highway through the Great Lakes country, from Toronto to the Northern Michi- gan resorts. This great play- ground offers almost any recre- ation you seek, and greater tour- ing-comfort than ever before. Stop at the Statlers There are Statler Hotels at Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, and St. Louis, and in each of them you will find comforts and con- HOTELS STATLER BUFFALO: 1100 rooms, 1100 baths. Niagara Square. The old Hotel Statler (at Washington and Swan) is now called Hotel Buffalo; and the old Iroquois Hotel is closed, not to reopen. CLEVELAND: 1000 rooms, ro00 baths. Euclid, at E. 12th, DETROIT: 1000 rooms, 1000 baths. Grand Circus Park. ST. LOUIS: 630 rooms, 650 baths. Ninth and Washington. BOSTON: Now preparing to build at Columbus Ave., Provi- and Arlington Sts. veniences that will add greatly to the pleasure of your vaca- tion. Each of these cities—as well as the nearby pleasure- grounds to which they are gate- ways—is well wortha long visit. The rate per day (for one and for two people) of every Statler room is posted perma- nently in that room, printed in plain figures. And Statler service is guar anteed to you—read the column at the right. STATLER and Statler~operated Statler Service is Guaranteed We guarantee that our employees will handle all transac. tions with our guests (and with each other) in the the golden rule—of treating the guest as the employ like to be treated if their positions were reversed. We guarantee that y employee will go to the limit of his authority to satisfy the guest whom he is serving; and that if he cannot satisfy him he will immediately take him to his superior. From this time on, therefore, if you have cause for com: plaint in any of our houses, and the management of that house fails to give you the satisfaction which this guarantee promises, the transaction should then become a_ personal matter between you and me. You will confer a favor upon us if you will write to me a statement of the case, and depend upon me to make good my promise. I can’t personally check all the work of the 6,000 employees, and there is no need that I should do so; but when our promises aren't kept, I want to know it. My permanent address is Executive Offices, Hotel Statler Company, Inc., Buffalo. Prv0NaN Ln ania New York The largest hotel in the world with 2200 rooms, 2200 baths. QnSeventh Avenue, 32d fo 334 Steeets, directly opposite Pennsylvania Railway Terri nal. A Suatleroperated hotel, with all the comforts and con: teniences of other Statler and with the same policies teous, intelligent and Relpfal service by all employees. comicbooks.com