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This page contains several distinct sections rather than a unified cartoon: 1. **"Life's Fresh Air Fund"** - A charitable appeal listing donors who've contributed to send poor children to the countryside for health benefits. 2. **"Indictment Grows Popular"** - An article discussing widespread business indictments under Sherman Antitrust Law, with eighty-four wire manufacturers and paper manufacturers facing charges. The piece humorously notes these businessmen claim innocence despite mounting evidence. 3. **"An Expert Witness"** - A brief anecdote about courtroom cross-examination humor. 4. **"Epitaph for a Church Singer"** - A short poem. 5. **Photograph** - Shows children in a circle outdoors, captioned "ONE OF THE POPULAR GAMES," likely illustrating the Fresh Air Fund's charitable work. The page lacks satirical cartoons; it's primarily text-based content reflecting Progressive Era concerns about corporate monopolies and child welfare.

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Life’s Fresh Air Fund are’s Fees Are Funo years, In re it has expended’ $126.437.43 and has given a fortnight in the country to 32.730 poor city children. The fund is supported entirely by bequests and voluntary which are ae: knowledged in Previously acknowledged. Ray, Ogden & On 4.00 a hemine Kiesel ALK, ees Katherine Clark € Daskam Moosehea Lake Side of the West Clinic, Health Depar City of N. Y....- Mary. Anderso: $00 of Clinton’ Brown’ Ris- " *'Sympath O78 Friend... 10.00 10.00 M, Tandon...... ee 00 Wainscott” Childrer 1.85 n Memory of Craig “In Memory of Lowry * T. HB, U.S. Marines. Autome Our" thanks to the Broa s nerosity Live's Exchange, through whose We use it for hauling m se, running errands and a general saving of time and expense POSTALS FROM LIFE’S FARM k Masta ano Para: [Tam happy Louis and I nice and healthy, And why dont you answ the postals I send Your sons Dra Farare I hope you are all well, In the racing yesterday T won a asc ball, Johnie likes it very much we went for hucleberrie yester- ey were not ripe, d icks untry yet. Tell par Mr. Holmes boys is out from your Loving Son. 1s good They HOULD children’s clothing Branchville, Conn., th a good deed, Many of as Mr. Mohr and their flimsy of our friends send to Lire’s Farni would be doin th the any children ar rive says—" almost naked,” clothes are soon in rays. The roughest and toughest kind of garments, to fit boys and girls between six and twelve years of age, are always in demand and thankfully received, are -LIFE- Indictment Grows Popular By and By, Doubtless, It Will Rank with Appendicitis ERSONS caught conspirin 1 still to regard indiet- ment, even under the Sherman Jaw, with business se: some heaviness of spirit. Eighty-four business in various were indicted June 2oth by the Federal Grand Jury in New York tofore bility. respected Sherman though s to them, but at least they are x have plenty Eighty-four persons are quite a com of themselves, but the papers say that a battalion of the steel gentlemen to be indicted. On June 26th men were ade blishers for band- magazine trust to and, no doubt, they will indicted; later the y magnates, who are now nd so on, through the nd all everything else wire manufacturers doing places on Most of them have passed here as gentlemen of entire respecta- Are they less respectable or less for being indicted under the law? Their friends thin} of company in their pligh re also about indicted twenty paper-box complaint has been against fifte or twenty periodical p ing together in a maintain rates, be, or have been, express compa under scrutiny, bath-tub trust Well, tered, into the Pitt, or the rest. has a litle been wa nd why not let water indictment business? rke, or some one, said you couldn't in but an law at that time. there was no We respect- indicted fellow cit- casy. There are so whole people, fully izens to take solicit these thi of them now, man nd so many more coming, that some kind of a serpent will have to be hoisted on some kind of a pole to cure their bites. Time was, whe! a man was indicted folks thought, per haps, he had done wrong. These Sherman indictments hardly carry so an imputation as that They suggest that the indicted may have done something contrary + the Sherman law, and so, illegal; but observers speculate thoughtfully and dif- fer in conclusions, as to the acts, the law or the wrong, and when prosecuting ‘wickedly into their spectators grin. Nevertheless it is not yet a good joke to be indicted. something law grave persons, whether courts are lawyers write accusations the It is a less contumelious than it but it is and uncertain as to Lawyers are doing a good busines ing to vaccinate inst it, at writing the disease is scems to be epidemic An Expert Witness “IT MUST compliment you,” says the at torney experience was, ex: pensive its issue try this sprea and for the defense to the wit endured a whole cross-examination — by “The State's attorney tions that ought to have tangle ness, who has day's the — prosceutor asked you ques you all up, but never once did he trap you.” “Tt was easy,” wy am used to getting home late and answer- smiled the witness, ing my wife’s questions.” Epitaph for a Church Singer lips are dumb, still We feel her voice is ringing Among the Choir Invisible, More one sung against than singing ONE OF THE POPULAR GAMES comicbooks.com