– SCHOOL NUMBER.

– Full page color ads for Stevens-Duryea cars (with excellent art by William Hamden Foster of a meandering stream probably near a coast), Williams’ Holder top shaving stick.

– Full page black and white ads for White Company electric vehicles (Grace, art by Otho Cushing), Chalmers Motor Company (The master motor of them all), Olds Motor Works (Oldsmobile 1914), Stag smoking tobacco, Locomobile company (with photo of Locomobile Berline).

– Full page art or cartoon art by Paul Stahr (The hired help at work … farm hand wooing the maid), Rea Irvin (To the militant suffragettes : why not make the spectacle a more amusing one?).

– Owing to Mr. Martin’s absence in Europe, readers of LIFE will be deprived of his editorials during the next few issues.

– Two page centerspread art by Angus MacDonall, Beginning Life’s Work, parents guiding two young children into school on the first day.

– And so much more!  Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!

The post Life Magazine – September 11, 1913 (# 1611) – School Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Vogue (Forecast of fall fashions), Baker Electrics (not signed, cool art of people inside a building looking out huge windows at street).

– Cute half page artwork by Albert Farrell, The Middleman’s profit, small child sitting between his parents.

– Full page black and white ads for Chandler Motor Car Company, Columbia grafonola (Tone), Velie Motor Vehicle Company (with half page photo), Hudson Motor Car Company, Hupp Motor Car Company (art by RFH), Locomobile cars, Good Year tires, Ohio Electric Car company,

– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (You know very well that, in our position, we can’t afford to economize), Rea Irvin (The millennium : testing matrimonial aspirants at the government institute of eugenics),

– Two page centerspread art by Harry Grant Dart, Let those who make the quarrel do the fighting.

– And much, much more

The post Life Magazine – September 18, 1913 (# 1612) – Idol Wanted. appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– HUSBANDETTE’S NUMBER (rights for husbands, humor).
– Full page COLOR ad for Williams’ Shaving Stick.
– Two page centerspread art by the famous Charles Dana Gibson, “Advice to the mentally feeble : sleep whenever you can, it will prevent your talking,” Bored young lady watching older man nap in his chair.
– Humorous piece about books “Translated by F. W. Bain,” Hindu Mythology and folk lore.
– Full page ads for Locomobile, Firestone non-skid tires (art by E. P. Seidel), Good year tires, Theodore Roosevelt’s autobiography,
– Full page art or cartoon art by Rea Irvin (The great Husbands’ strike : a strike-breaker going to work under police protection), T. S. Allen (What halos some wives would wear, if …), Gordon Grant (Husbandettes), Garford Company automobiles (art by R. F. S. … who knows who this artist is?).
– Some current events include : Plan for Congress to give Presidents a six year term, Subway contracts have not yet been signed, Judge McCall will succeed Mr. Willcox on the Public Service Commission, Bribery vs. Hoggery, Canal rates.
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – February 20, 1913 (# 1582) appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– BRIDE’S NUMBER.

– Full page COLOR ads for Fatima Turkish cigarettes (nice art of man reading stock ticker tape), Pall Mall cigarettes (with some color).

– FULL PAGE Colt automatic pistol ad, with man holding gun on burglar in his dining room as he calls the police.

– Nice half page artwork by Margery Stocking : The kind of girl a man marries VS. The kind of wife he expects her to be.

– Full page ads for Kelly-Springfield tires, Goodyear tires, Ohio Electric Car (signed but illegible), Welch’s grape juice, Peerless motor car company, Mobiloil.

– Full page art or cartoon art by William L. Jacobs (A bride of the future, in trousers), F. T. Richards (May).

– Two page COLOR centerspread art by Orson Lowell, “A rainbow is a state of mind.”

– Some current events include : California legislature denies Japanese the right to own farms in California, Miss Jane Addams writing in the Ladies’ Home Journal about the vote for women, Sale of Harper’s Weekly, Lots of strikes, Colonel Roosevelt going to Marquette, Michigan.

– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1913 content – fun!

The post Life Magazine – June 5, 1913 (# 1597) – Bridal Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – December 4, 1913 (# 1623) – Christmas Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – December 11, 1913 (# 1624) – Ship’s Figurehead appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color Locomobile car ad with art showing the business “Violette, Robes et Manteaux.”
– Full page art or cartoon art by Otho Cushing (White Company cars : Alone), C. F. Peters (Advice to thirsty men … dog waiting outside pub), Rea Irvin (3013 A.D., Reversion to the primitive).
– Two page center spread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Advice to the mentally feeble : keep the mouth closed.”
– Some current events include : President’s address to Congress, Recommendation of direct primaries for the nomination of Presidential candidates, Suffrage, Mr. William W. Rockhill was recalled as ambassador to Turkey.
– Full page color Pierce-Arrow car ad.
– Much more.

The post Life Magazine – December 18, 1913 (# 1625) – Immigrants appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color Stevens-Duryea car ad with beautiful art of purple car in front of rapids or waterfall, art by William Harnden Foster.
– Full page art or cartoon art by W. O. Wilson (All those in favor of woman suffrage hold up their hands), F. T. Richards (December), Charles Forbell (If we all waited for inspiration).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “In double harness to amuse the children, How Uncle Tom came to propose.”
– Some current events include : Mona Lisa is found, Mr. Root got the Nobel Peace price, Currency Bill, Some of the recent discoveries of science are cheering if one sees them from the right angle, Cimex lectularius is a germ carrier and under favorable conditions can infect people with tuberculosis, Bed bugs, Superintendent of schools of Chicago Mrs. Young retires, Mr. Taft loses seventy pounds.
– Much more.

The post Life Magazine – December 25, 1913 (# 1626) – Santa’s List appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – October 2, 1913 (# 1614) – War Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – October 9, 1913 (# 1615) – Drama Acting appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.