– SOCIALIST’S NUMBER.
– Full page color ad for Pierce Arrow Motor cars, art by John E. Sheridan, People standing up in car looking at airplanes, “The Pierce-Arrow at the Aviation Meet.”
– Full page black and white ads for White Company (What the White Gasoline Car costs to run), Packard Motor Car Company (1911 Packard Thirty Close-Coupled, Ask the man who owns one), Cunningham automobiles (the most conspicuous car in the high price division), Abbott Motor Company (built for permanence).
– What is the Imaginary Life?, humorous piece by TLM.
– Humorous half page art by A. B. Walker, “The leisure class if birds of a feather DID flock together,” bums hanging out with idle rich folks.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Arthur Young (Biblical law as interpreted by employers of child-labor), Doane Powell (On with the Dance, tired working man looking down at little rich people dancing around his feet), Harrison Cady (Why not a special speedway for the joy riders).
– The Boy Grafters : a new organization, which will fit our boys for public life, art and text by William H. Walker.
– Two page centerspread art by William Balfour-Ker, “King Canute forbids the rising of the tide,” working class rising up over rich folks.
– Some current events include : Disco Throop of the schooner “We’re Here”; Tariff on most fish; Gloucestermen; President’s reciprocity treaty with Canada; Withdrawal of charges that the Standard Oil Company had made and sold to candy makers glucose containing sulphites, which were poisonous to children and other consumers of candy.
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – February 16, 1911 (# 1477) – Socialists appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– SUMMER GIRL NUMBER.

– Full page color ad for Eastman Kodak (Woman taking a photo from the door of an electric car).

– Full page black and white ads for Wyckoff Church & Partridge truck (with Government of Uganda truck and Washington Quarry in Singapore truck), Life magazine (next issue : Coronation Number), Hupp-Yeats Electric Coach (The Patrician), Speedwell Motor Car company (with photo), Willys-Overland cars, Ainslee’s magazine.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (Honeymooners : guess which one has honeymooned before), William L. Jacobs (The city boarder : playing the piano as everyone else in the boarding house watches. Landscape format.), William H. Walker (Saint Thomas the fortunate, vignettes in a stained glass window), Bayard Jones (Two beggars : one asking for love, one for money).

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, About this time of the year the woods are full of them, young ladies in the countryside.

– Some current events include : No Democrat who has to get along with Mr. Bryan will ever be President, Commissioner of Immigration Williams needs to be removed by public office, Ellis Island is a place abounding in sorrow, William S. Gilbert is dead but not very dead.

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – June 15, 1911 (# 1494) – C. Coles Phillips – Summer Girl appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– BOOK NUMBER.

– A number of things pertaining to injuries of boys on the Fourth of July with fireworks.

– Literary giants as announced by their publishers.

– Full page color ad for La Marquise cigarettes with great painting of lovely lady by Hamilton King.

– Full page black and white ads for Columbia Motor Car Company (art by Edward Poucher), White Company (It’s motoring time – it’s White time), Life magazine (next issue : Summer Girl Number), Packard Motor Car Company (1912 Packard “six” touring car, signed but illegible), Locomobile cars (two pages, mostly words), Country Life magazine.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Chester I. Garde (Some recent books), Harrison Cady (A wedding amongst the June bugs).

– Two page centerspread art by Raymond Moreau Crosby, Is knowledge power?, woman alone studying while another woman (not studying) is surrounded by men.

– Some current events include : People are dressing for summer and going to the country, Mr. Cohalan is the leading adviser of Charles Murphy, Tammany Hall, Mr. Van Tuyl is the new superintendent of banks, Our legislature has not yet passed the federal income tax bill, The new public library is open, Lots of building in New York City.

– Sample illustrations from popular serials now running in the best magazines (all the same illustration with different captions).

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– BURGLAR’S NUMBER (much on different kinds of thievery).

– Lots of car ads in the 1911 issues.

– Full page color ad for Peerless Motor Car Company (with nice art at the College of the City of New York).

– Full page black and white ads for United States Tires, Franklin Automobile company, Standard Oil company (Polarine oil), Gorham wedding silver,

– Full page art or cartoon art by Westerman (Different kinds of burglars), Orson Lowell (2/3 page, Passing of Hubby’s Den), unsigned (Interrupted : Grim reaper comes for burglar in the middle of looting a safe), Vogue (Spring fashions), Life magazine (next issue : Dog number), , Wyckoff Church & Partridge trucks (with art of Collier’s and The Housekeeper truck).

– Two page centerspread art by C. Clyde Squires, Robbers : wholesale and retail, rich man sleeps as burglar enters the room.

– Some current events include : The horror of the Shirt Waist Factory fire (Triangle Shirtwaist fire, 146 workers died, most ages 16-23), Deep disgust of the burning of the New York State Library at Albany and a considerable fraction of the Capitol that contained it, Realization that many factories are death traps, Voting in Milwaukee, Oregon has an extraordinarily fine set of new political improvements.

– Impressive half page artwork by W. O. Wilson, When their terms expire, No one greets the common thief when he is released from prison, All kinds of rich men happily greet the dishonest banker when he is released.

– What would we do without our burglars No national institution is more necessary. Not only are whole families supported by this honorable calling, but likewise entire insurance companies.”

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The post Life Magazine – April 13, 1911 (# 1485) – Burglar’s Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– EASTER NUMBER (Fatter than normal issue).

– Full page color ads for Belle Mead Sweets (chocolates and bon bons, with lovely artwork of cows grazing and drinking in meandering stream), Jones Speedometer (Uncle Sam settles the speedometer question), Williams’ Shaving stick.

– Full page black and white ads for White automobiles (White efficiency, White well built), Broc electric vehicle company (Luxurious, nice art by the Reeses), Hudson Motor Car Company (with interesting art), Massachusetts Avenue Heights (Real estate for sale in Washington DC), Packard Motor Trucks (with art of John Wanamaker business trucks), Meriden sterling silver (Beverly, La Rochelle, Shirley, Pansy), Peter’s Milk Chocolate (With excellent art of pilot dropping chocolate bars to kids below, A record flight from the Alps to America), Babcock Electric Carriage Company (attractive art), Goodyear tires, E. R. Thomas Motor Car Company, Life magazine (Next issue : Burglar’s Number), Alco cars (American Locomotive Company).

– Winners of Life’s Great Auto Race (Columbia Motor Car Company wins the solid gold cup, King Motor Car Company wins the Booby prize).

– Full page art or cartoon art by Bayard Jones (Man watching best friend finds out that his girl has another man), Orson Lowell (Of course women smoke now, but only cigarettes and as amateurs. Later, with more experience, they will do better. Landscape format),

– Two page centerspread art by Raymond Moreau Crosby (Mrs Gotrox and chorus in her brief engagement in town).

– Some current events include : Resignation of the existing Mexican cabinet, Rebellion in Mexico is a serious matter, Attack by Ulrich on Dr. Booker Washington, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Balfour of Burleigh and Headmaster of Eton (among others) sign protest declaring that “Certain novels issued by publishers of repute are not only unfit for perusal by a modest girl or a right-minded lad, but are likely to do harm to the moral character of all readers.”

– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1911 content – fun!

The post Life Magazine – April 6, 1911 (# 1484) – Easter and Rabbits – Coles Phillips appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– MID-LENT NUMBER.

– Full page color ads for Vogue (with art by Frank X. Leyendecker), Maxwell-Briscoe Motor Company (with nice countryside driving art).

– Full page black and white ads for Goodyear Welt (United Shoe Machinery company, men sliding down the banister of Life), Locomobile (photo of “30” locomobiles on the Caledonian Canal in Scotland), Life magazine (for next issue of Life, the Travel number), Aolian Company (Pianola Pianos), Columbia Motor Car company (art by P, in a box), White motor cars, Review of Reviews (with Civil War photos), Vogue (Spring millinery number).

– Half page ad for Oakland Motor Car Company with nice art of a Runabout with acorns in the art.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (Host is rather dreadful, he speaks with a pronounced Business accent), John Newton Howitt (The latest installment, women gathering to listen to the next chapter in a serial story. Landscape format),

– Two page centerspread art by William L. Jacobs (Drawing Lots : who remains with Miss Peach while the other goes for gasoline), winter scene, gas is 5 miles away.

– Some current events include : Second installment of Mr. F. T. Martin’s discourse in Everybody’s about the Idle Rich is quite a serious piece, The Rich in America, Money is a power no matter whose hands it goes into, There is a fight on against government by wealth for wealth.

– Full page pertaining to the awarding of the Booby prize in Life’s great auto race.

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – March 23, 1911 (# 1482) – Lent – Many car ads! appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– MANY car ads!

– Full page color ad for Pall Mall cigarettes.

– Full page black and white ads for Franklin automobiles, Packard motor cards (Packard “30” Brougham), Pompeian massage cream, Vogue magazine (Spring dress materials number).

– Full page art or cartoon art by Harrison Cady (My Lady’s finery : central art of lady dressed in furs and feathers, surrounded by scenes of all the slaughter of animals and birds needed to make her clothes, including clubbing seals and killing birds just for their tail feathers), Angus MacDonall (OMG, another horrible vivisection artwork … Life was very anti-vivsection, the little boy who never grew up, he moves from killing his toys to killing dogs),

– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell, “Fido’s Birthday : he gives a party to the dogs in his street and the masters come with them,” Dog birthday party with humans who look like their dogs.

– Some current events include : Congress has adjourned to meet again next month but a very different Congress from the one that has just ended, Anti-magazine bill failed, New Public Library ought to have black draperies in mourning for John M. Carrere.

– Full page devoted to fictitious troubles of the celebrity board to determine the winners of the Great Life auto race.

– More humorous recipes from the “human cook book” such as The Waiter : Suff a hired dress-suit case with an effort to please, Add a half-dozen stumbles and trips, Remove his right thumb from the cranberry sauce, Roll in crumbs, melted butter and tips.

– Cute half page artwork by William Van Dresser, “Up to date chivalry,” woman picking up man’s hat that has blown off his head.

– Life’s family album, Orson Lowell, with photo and “interview” of sorts.

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – March 16, 1911 (# 1481) – Coles Phillips – Turning back time appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Maxwell-Briscoe Motor Company (with people in car watching crewing (rowing) race, art by Edward Poucher), Baker Motor Vehicle Company (Baker Electrics, art by S. V. Campbell, or something similar).

– Full page black and white ads for Locomobile (the “30” at Lismore castle in Ireland), Hupmobile Cars (Companion of the costliest cars at home and abroad), Dayton Motor Car Company (Stoddard 20).

– Humorous full page pertaining to Life’s great auto race (where automobile advertisers gain points by how many lines of advertising they buy), the final judges and the prizes.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Mark Fenderson (When woman usurps man’s rights, great group of small artworks showing things like woman mowing the grass while man reads in hammock).

– Two page centerspread art by William H. Walker, “Will it come to this?,” Other magazines charging the Life cherub in Fort Independence.

– Some current events include : The Wall Street Journal says that the present postal rate for magazines (one cent per pound) is responsible for a marked decline in American literature.

– “A great many people live pretty dull lives, especially farmers’ families and working women. They get comparatively harmless entertainment out of the cheap magazines.”

– Life’s Family Album (Mrs. Kate Masterson (photo and interview, of sorts).

–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1911 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!

The post Life Magazine –March 9, 1911 (# 1480) – Henry Hutt appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– RICH MAN’S NUMBER (much humor related to excess, wealth and riches).

– Full page color ad for Williams’ Shaving Stick and Jersey Cream soap.

– Full page black and white ads for Locomobile (with photo of “30” Baby Tonneau on the shore of a lake), Life magazine (Peacock Number coming next week), Packard Motor Trucks (With small art of Tiffany Studios truck being loaded), Hudson Motor Car Company (with art of Hudson “33” and Madison Square Garden).

– Full page art or cartoon art by Art Young (A success : Gold, Glory, Gout), Power O’Malley (Man in the moon talking to woman flying an airplane at night, “Now that you know the way, come often.”), Orson Lowell (The rich man and the flies, the less fortunate swarm around him and beseeching him for money while he naps with fly swatter in hand).

– Two page centerspread art by C. Clyde Squires, “It isn’t always the early bird that catches the worm,” regular people crowding in the dark at 6am to work at the factory, fat rich man getting into his chauffeur-driven car to go to the office at 10am.

– Some current events include : The fight over the New York state senatorship, the whole editor’s column pertains to this.

– Half page artwork by W. O. Wilson, “If money grew on trees,” people sweeping up, picking up (like litter) and wading through the fallen greenbacks.

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – February 23, 1911 (# 1478) – Rich Man’s Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Massage Cream (a puzzle for the readers), Pall Mall cigarettes.

– Full page black and white ads for Franklin Automobile Company, Columbia Motor Cars (with nice art), United Shoe Machinery Company.

– Full page art or cartoon art by J. Conacher (The improper guest, wife telling husband he can have her or the new half-dressed statue in the house, but not both), Mark Fenderson (If our dreams came true).

– Two page centerspread art by Walter Tittle, “Frequently : what we want, we can’t have, and what we can have we don’t want,” people in a line, each beseeching the one ahead of them.

– Some current events include : Odd statement by Bishop Ludden pertaining to the New York Democrats, Catholic Irishmen, Tammany, Charles Murphy.

– Humorous half page artwork by Mark Fenderson, man is sitting in broken down car while his girl in underneath it repairing it and swearing, “Oh Lizzie! If you don’t stop that dreadful language I’ll never go out with you again!”

– More funny “recipes” from the “Human Cookbook.”

– 26 reasons why any man should not marry a suffragette.

– A whole page on Life’s Great Auto race with current placement of the entries, car advertisers ranked by number of lines in their ads.

–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1911 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!

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