Life — July 11, 1907 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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# Page 56, Life Magazine - "At Life's Farm" This page features a photograph of Mr. Mohr distributing postal cards at Life's Farm, accompanied by two charitable fundraising campaigns with accompanying poetry. The **"Our Fresh Air Fund"** and **"For the Manhood Trust"** sections list donor names and contributions, suggesting these were real charitable initiatives that Life magazine promoted to readers. The poems express philanthropic sentiment about helping poor urban children and those in slums. The right column contains a humorous domestic dialogue set in 1950, where the Hastall family discusses competing vacation plans—the wife wants Wall Street, children prefer submarines and autos, while the husband chooses horseback riding. This satirizes middle-class aspirations and family disagreements about leisure activities, poking gentle fun at consumer desires and domestic decision-making of the era.