Life, 1906-04-26 · page 19 of 24
Life — April 26, 1906 — page 19: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and fundraising**, not satire. It contains three distinct appeals: 1. **Top left**: A book club offer from Tabard Inn Library—membership plus a popular novel subscription for $2.10. 2. **Top right**: Advertisement for the Metropolitan Jockey Club's spring racing meet in Jamaica, Long Island (April 27–May 9). 3. **Bottom**: A fundraising campaign for the Lincoln Farm Association, seeking donations to convert Abraham Lincoln's birthplace into a national park. The board lists prominent figures (William H. Taft, Cardinal Gibbons, Mark Twain, etc.), legitimizing the cause. The association aims to restore the cabin, protect the spring, and build a historical museum. The Lincoln appeal emphasizes patriotic duty, comparing it to Mount Vernon's role in honoring Washington. No satire is evident—this reflects genuine early-20th-century efforts to preserve historical sites through public contribution.
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fit isa A Rare Opportunity to obtain the Most Popular Novel Select any one of the books enumerated below. You get one of these books hand- somely bound, a Tabard Inn Library Membership and a year's subscription to THE METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE all for $2.10. Order to-day. We pay the “freight.” Anber Grifiths + Elwabeth Ellis » Bettina von Hutton Geo. Bart McCutcheon . The Patriots ‘Cyrus Townsend Brady A Motor Car Divorce Louise Closer Hale . The Girl with the Blue Sail = coe Burton E. Stevenson E. F, Benson Max Pemberton + Oppenheim Gordon Holmes R.A. Bennet The Passenger from Calais . Barbara Winslow—Rebl . Pam Decides Cowardice Court The Angel of Pain . My Sword for Lafayette . A Maker of History . The Arncliffe Puzzle . For the White Christ . THE TABARD INN LIBRARY Dept. L 1611 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Do You Want to See the Name of Lincoln Joseph W. Folk, President Joseph H. Choate August Belmont William Travers Jerome By Permenten MeCler's Y man, woman, and child in America is invited to join this Associa- tion, which has been organized to convert the Lincoln Birthplace Farm into'a National Park to honor the memory of our great War President. Lincoln stands next to Washington as our greatest citizen. In honor of Tiashington we have Mount Vernon. In honor of Lincoln let us have a National -incoln Park. The Lincoln Farm Association, with headquarters at New York, is now composed of some three thousand patriotic citizens, all of whom have already contributed to the Park Fund. The Association now has possession of the Birthplace Farm, and has also purchased the old Lincoln Cabin, which was in the hands of a speculator. The immediate purposes are to restore the cabin; to properly clean and Protect the old spring; to sow the fields with blue grass; to erect at least one noble monument on the farm; and also to build there a historical museum— eventually to make of this one of the nation’s great memorials. To do these things, and then to maintain the Park through all coming years, a large fund is needed. It ought to be contributed by the whole people—the citizens of every State in the Union, Horace Porter William H. Taft Jenkin Lloyd Jones Augustus Saint Gaudens SPRING MEETING OF THE METROPOLITAN JOCKEY CLUB JAMAICA, LONG ISLAND ELEVEN DAYS FROM Friday, April 27th To Wednesday, May 9th SIX RACES EACH DAY. First Race at 2 P. M. Each Day Track can be reached via Long Island Railroad, foot of East 34th St.; and from Flatbush Ave. Station, Brooklyn. For Time Tables, see Daily Papers. > Fittingly Honored « Then Join the Lincoln Farm Association BOARD OF TRUSTEES Clarence H. Mackay, Treasurer Richard Lloyd Jones, Secretary Edward M. Shepard Ida M. Tarbell Samuel L. Clemens Robert J. Collier Henry Watterson Cardinal Gibbons Lyman J. Gage Norman Hapgood Charles A. Towne Albert Shaw Thomas Hastings Any contribution from cents to $25.00 will make you a member of the Association—you will receive an engraved Certificate of Membership, and your name will be entered in the Membership Books, to be kept in a place of honor at the Park. Please use the coupon, and write your name and address plainly. Con- tributions of less than $1.00 may be sent in the form of two-cent postage stamps. COUPON THE LINCOLN FARM ASSOCIATION Clarence H. Mackay, Treasurer No, 74 BROADWAY, NEW YORK Enclosed find $.ccccccco.soe-esssesevne-nvevvesseesseeecees ‘as my contribution to The Lincoln Farm Association. Please send Membership Certificate to Name. comicbooks.com