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Here, reformated for the Web, is the entire contents of a sixteen page promotional brochure created to extoll the virtues of the Hotel Ottawa (renamed by J. Boyd Pantlind as the Ottawa Beach Hotel) to travel agents and the general public.

OTTAWA BEACH is the summer joyland of the north- west. It is mere man's Garden of Eden It is the fountain of youth the giver of bountiful health and more. It is the most accessible summer resort which is "diferent" on all the In1and, Seas. One visitor last summer, standing on the Ottawa Beach dock, surveying the moon-kissed shadows of Black Lake as it nestled in its descent beneath the high hills, said; "This is Switzerland". But it is not Switzerland: it is Michigan and within easy, comfortable economical reach of the busy toilers of a thousand cities. Ottawa Beach is a place of health and recreation and yet a place so easily reached that annually many thousands- leave the heat of the great cities and with their families and friends wend their ways there. In the fall they return full of new vigor, with the blood stirring, the cheeks browned by the wind and sun with new heart and new life for business and the cares of a busy world.
Ottawa Beach is on Lake Michigan. Looking straight out across the water the nearest land is at Chicago or Milwaukee. It's on the Big Lake that comes rolling in during an occasional storm or lies placid as a mill pond on a quiet day. As the waves gently lap upon the white sands of the shore the water is warmed until just right for bathing. The beach slopes away very gradually for many yards out into the lake. Every day there may be seen hundreds of men, women and children swimming, bathing, wading and splashing in the water or burying one another in the sands along the shore.

The place named Ottawa Beach and upon which the Ottawa Beach Hotel stands, lies between Lake Michigan and Black Lake. On the one side is this great bathing beach. On the other is Black Lake. Connecting the Great Lake with Black Lake is a government steamboat channel. Through it pass the big Graham and Morton Line Steamers, excursion boats, freighters, small boats of all kinds and descriptions, for at the head of Blake Lake, six miles away is the bustling little city of Holland.

All around Black Lake are resorts. Just across from Ottawa Beach is Macatawa Park with the high knob reached by an inclined railroad and on the top of which is a pavilion overlooking both lakes for miles. This place is noted for its many beautiful summer homes of which there are more than four hundred scattered about the hills and along the big lake.

Across from Ottawa Beach too, is Jenison Park and here, when one seeks a bit of excitement, is a regular recreation park with all those things which go to make up an amusement resort. Here one may always find something of interest.