Life, 1910-05-12 · page 7 of 44
Life — May 12, 1910 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and travel promotion**, not political satire. The main content features: **Yellowstone Park Advertisement**: Promotes visiting Yellowstone's animals (bears, elk, deer, antelope) and natural features (canyons, geysers, hot springs). The illustration shows bears climbing a tree. **Northern Pacific Railway Ad**: Advertises train service to Yellowstone via Pullman sleeping cars, emphasizing the "Gardiner Gateway" entrance (open June 15-September 15, 1910). **Motor Apparel Shop Ad**: Promotes clothing for motorists—linens, mohairs, silks, and gabardines for men and women. **"Tarred with the Same Stick"**: A narrative story (left column) about financial corruption involving a Sugar Trust scandal and a chauffeur's bribery—social commentary on wealthy privilege, not visual satire. The page reflects early 20th-century commercial interests: automobile travel, railway tourism, and contemporary corruption scandals.
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GLISH TOURS By AUTOMOBILE PRIVATE CARS. GO WHERE YOU PLEASE. Iustrated Booklet Free By Post. MOTOR TOURING COMPANY, Tarred with the Same Stick Who shall doubt the secret hid Under Cheops’ pyramid Was that the contractor did Cheops out of several millions? Or that Joseph's sudden ri: To Comptroller of Supplies Was a fraud of monstrous si On King Pharaoh's swart civilians? Kipling. In mordant words, his eyes aflame with scorn, the Preacher denounced the Sugar Trust and arraigned its direc- tors. “They are whited seoulchres,” he said, “ who rob widow’s houses and for a pretence make long pra: And the coachman and feur, the cook, the lawyer and the doctor inwardly answered: “ Amen.” And when the offering was taken the coachman gave ten cents, the first part of fifty dollars the dealer had given him the day before, when on his ad- vice his employer bought a three hun- dred and fifty-dollar mare for five hun- dred dollars. The chauffeur’s gift to the Lord was of like amount. It was apart of the ten per cent. of the bill for tires and gasoline the keeper of the garage had ungencrously grudged him when he brought his employer's check for the full amount. A quiet sugges- tion to the effect that “ Mr. Reachout around the corner would be glad to Everything that Comfort Demands for the Motorist JX as many new models as there are trained minds on both continents to conceive them, we present : Motor garments of thin, soft fabrics, such as linens, mohairs, silks and gabar- dines, for men and women. The quality of both fabrics and tailoring ishigh. The prices are not. Send for Catalogue L. Fox, Stiefel & Co, RATS, Fourth Annual Rose Festival, Portland, Ore., June 6-11,1910 Ask for de luze booklet, describing it. @Not the least of the many attractions of ‘‘Wonderland” are the Bears, Bison, Elk, Deer and Antelope which roam this magnificent domain. @Nature seems to have taken delight in assembling everything she could to quicken the pulse, kindle the eye and awe the mind of man. @ You should see the giant canyons, towering peaks, noble cataracts, bubbling hot springs, spouting geysers and weird formations of rock and lava. @You should enjoy a stay at the fine hotels, striking in architecture and pleasing in service. You should experience, too, a trip over the “Scenic Highway through the Land of Fortune’: Northern Pacific Ry Operating through Pullman Sleeping Cars, with- out change, direct to the Park boundary at Gardiner Gateway the official entrance, daily during the open season: June 15 to September 15, 1910. @Summer Tourist Fares to the North Pacific Coast effective daily, June 1 to September 30, 1910. @Write for “Land of Geysers” book- let and Park folder —with full partic- ulars of fares and train service. Address A. M. CLELAND General Passenger Agent ST. PAUL, MINN have the business that basis” offering was a tithe of one of the many brought the stingy garage man to his senses. The cook sat back in silent satisfac- tion when she gave a quarter, ard in- cidentally noted that the wealthy M Closefist could have given no more, for - there were only three dollar bills on the plate when it came to her, while Mr. and Mrs. Wellden and Mr. Save- man always gave a dollar each. Her 867 remembrances the dairyman, Mr. Jer- sey, was accustomed thoughtfully o hand her for her kindness in n ing that his milk was bluer ar cream thinner than that of Mr. Hol- stein, his rival, The lawyer and the doctor as be- fitting their position cach gave a dol- (Continued on page 868) comicbooks.com