Life, 1910-03-10 · page 7 of 36
Life — March 10, 1910 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page features the masthead "LIFE" with an illustration titled "THE GOLDEN MILE" depicting elegantly dressed figures in formal attire. The text contains two articles: "Future News Notes" discusses corporate trusts (Steel Trust, Beef Trust, Pennsylvania Railroad, Lemon Trust, Bell Trust, Oil Trust, and University Trust), satirizing their expansion and influence. The author notes these trusts are acquiring summer camps and controlling District of Columbia resources. "A Believer" is a brief comedic piece about someone finding humor at the opera. The humor targets **monopolistic corporations and industrial trusts** that dominated early 20th-century American business. By listing various "trusts" controlling everything from meat to universities to entertainment venues, the magazine mocks the pervasive corporate consolidation of the era—a major progressive-era concern about unregulated business power.
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Future News Netes toward cor- ay reasonably expect to sce the following one of these days: The wife of the Stecl Trust was the host at a delightful reception yesterday at her palatial mansion in Pittsburg. Among those in the receiving line were the wives of the Pennsylvania F the Brass Trust, the Ice Trust Lemon Trust. It was.a very costly fair and entirely exclusive. The Beef Trust has gone to New York for a few days on business. The son of the New York Central Railroad has just purchased the Domin- ion of Canada. He expects to convert it into a modest little summer camp. The Oil Trust has finally secured com plete control of the District of Columbia N view of the tendency porations we THE GOLDEN MIEN for the location of its new office struc tures, The public buildings will imme: diately be removed to the Hackensack Several Senators who op- posed this change will not be re-elected The beautiful daughter of the Ham Trust is rejoicing over the safe return of her pet poodle Naughty. The doctor had prescribed a short sea trip for Naughty, and so, with its nurse, it had been sent away for a week on the Maw , which the Ham Trust has re- acquired The recent storms made the little vessel two days late in returning to port. The University Trust will only six students this year, as against st year. This is hailed as quite n in the progress not only toward exchisiveness but toward race suicide well. Ellis O. Jones. meadows, for its exclusive use. graduate alt A Believer a rule of psychology: No er’whether you feel cheerful or not, try to seem so, even if it's put on “That's right 1 go to a comic opera.” T always Jaugh when HE three P's of politics: Promises, procrastination and_ prevarication PORTRAIT OF A SUNSET IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA comicbooks:com