Life, 1910-07-21 · page 10 of 40
Life — July 21, 1910 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page combines charitable fundraising with rural lifestyle commentary. The main cartoon features an anthropomorphic ostrich holding a check, illustrating "A Good Idea" — apparently a humorous mascot for the Fresh Air Fund, a real charity providing farm experiences for urban children. The text discusses donations to this fund and includes several sections: "Postals From the Farm" (letters from children who visited farms), and "A Boom in Bicycles" (commentary on increased bicycle demand, attributed to improved roads and declining horse use due to automobiles). The page reflects early-20th-century themes: urbanization creating need for children's nature exposure, automobile transportation disrupting traditional horse-based infrastructure, and the bicycle's intermediate role in mechanical transportation during industrial transition.
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98 Life’s Fresh Air Fund Previously acknowledged.........+.$3,860.05 Proceeds of Candy Sale by “Ruth Frazier, Dorothy: Frazier, Marion Andrews, Josephine Stroughton and Katharine Stroughton. HH. Wells.....+ 0. Bend Sunshine Circle 222252 “g.gt |. G. o sete 5.31 ‘athalie L. de Cast $.00 Chas. F. Shelby —— 5.31 Ln O, Peck. ..-+ 200 5.00 GL, W525 25.00 Cash oe... 5.00 “In Memory of one who was ful in every relation of life “In memory of Lire’s best friend * Mrs. Flora A. Morrow. Mrs. Helen M. Ireland. . 2.000005 Mrs. E. S. Dana. C. FE, Quincy. Mr, and Mrs. ELF. Melville C. Day.....- El Bosque Ranch..... E. G. Johnston......- Charlotte Demorest. A Friend...... AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Through a typographical error in our issue of June 30 24,000 mint and violet chips were credited to the Culgan Company, They were sent to the Farm through the kindness of the Colgan Gum Company, of Louisville, Ky. and are acknowledged ‘with many thanks. A Good Idea UR especial thanks to Mr. Burg- win for his check. This well wisher figured the cost of certain articles consumed at Lire’s SUTS, SOLTS, DOOR KNOBS! DELICIOUS! 1 MUST ORDER soMte.”” AT LIFES FARM A PULL DAY Fresh Air Farm as per list herewith, published in a recent issue of this journal, and sends $21.31 to the Fund. Paid formerly Now. $0.03 $0.09 Ib. ginger snaps Wb. lemon snaps. 103 Ib. better...... b. cocoa. Ib. coffees... bbl, oatmeal. - bush, eplit peas. hush. pea beans. Th. rice... Ib. sugar... sees. th. lar doz. sal on. Postals From the Farm Dear Mother and. father we are all right and dont be worried about us and how is iNie and Tom and John and grade please send some money for thier some nice candy and other things that we like and I will bring home a cow so grandma can have her butter milk, From Tootsie. Dear Mother We came to this place yesterday about 5 o'clock and we put our things away, and then we went down to play about 6 o'clock we had supper, and what we had for supper was as much bread as we wanted and a bool of milk and 4 cakes. 7 o'clock we went to bed and we got up at a quarter after six went down to the brook and washed our- es and we all felt well I send my best regards to all fro daughter, your dear inama we got hear safe. we go pick: ing apples and grapes. we play games and hall and lots of other things. we go swiming id climing up trees. good by. A Boom in Bicycles HEY say that the demand for bi cycles this year is far ahead of the supply, so that the jobbers can’t fill their orders. That is not. surprising. The bicycle is a permanent link in the chain of mechanical transportation. It has kept its market right along better than most people suppose, being very useful 10 dwellers on farms and in vil 5 If there is a spurt in bicycles this year it is probably due to the decline in horse and the vast improvement in roads, both of them consequences of the rise of the automobile. It is obvious that the multiplication of fast-going mechanical wheel-vehicles on the roads of the earth is very stimu- lating to aerial navigation. Folks who dislike dust and crowding and speed- fines and smoke and smells are going to travel and run their errands by the air line just as soon as the mortality sta- tistics of that sort of transportation be- gin to look reasonable to them. comicbooks.com