– HUMOROUS NUMBER (actually, much is morbid death-related humor).
– Full page color ads for Pompeian Massage Cream (now who would dare buy a jar?), Vogue magazine (with reduced version of cover of Vogue April 15, 1914), Baker Electrics motor vehicles (art of car driving under blooming tree).
– Notes on the periodicals, what is the matter with the magazines, by the editor of Life (a humorous piece).
– Two part artwork, “Does the punishment always fit the crime?”, poor man who stole $10 in jail living on bread and water, rich man who stole two railroads and a bank living at home, fancy dining with servants.
– Full page black and white ads for MOON Motor Car company (1914 Moon light weight Six-50, back of the Moon, Could you suggest betterment here?), Chandler Motor Car company (which Light Weight Six will you buy?), Subscription to Life magazine, Onyx hosiery, Mobiloils (two pages).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Unsigned (Every time the clock ticks, Stork flying overhead with baby, not stopping).
– American and English humor, by G. K. Chesterton.
– Two page centerspread art by Unsigned, “Next,” Grim Reaper on the River Styx beckoning the next person forward.
– Some current events include : More of us ought to behave as if we meant to go on living here (on earth); Behavior of commissioners; William Hearst’s efforts to stir up anti-English sentiment; Canal  tolls repeal bill; Fall of Torreon in Mexico.
– “A month ago the story was current that Villa had been recognized as one of the negro soldiers, once in our army, who got into trouble at Brownsville and were discharged.  If that is a true story, our army lost more military ability by the discharge of those Brownsville colored troops that was appreciated.”
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – April 16, 1914 (# 1642) – Humorous Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ad for Colgate’s Talc Powder, with lovely art.

– Full page black and white ads for Goodyear tires, Chandler Motor Car Company, Lozier Motor company, Schlitz beer.

– Cute half page artwork by Orson Lowell, Team Work : why the Hustleton family is always punctual at church.

– Full page art or cartoon art by William H. Walker (Stop the ship! I’ve dropped a penny overboard), A. B. Walker (Around the world in a minute), J. Henry (One of the risks a moving picture hero has to take).

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, At the end of his two weeks – making it hard for him to go (lots of young ladies waving goodbye at the train station).

– Some current events include : Paul Warburg is a member of the Federal Reserve Board, Recent disorders on Blackwell’s Island (one of the penal and corrective properties in the charge of Commissioner Katharine B. Davis), Big row with miners in suffragist Colorado.

– And much, much more

The post Life Magazine – July 23, 1914 (# 1656) – Canoe Camping appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ad for Colgate toilet soaps (Colgate Motor Movie).

– Full page black and white ads for Hudson Motor Car company (Hudson Six-40), Studebaker automobiles, United States Tire Company.

– Two wonderful 2/3 page artworks by Mary Lane McMillan (weather forecasts).

– Full page art or cartoon art by Angus MacDonall (Waterloo, small boy being spanked as his friends look on and titter), Raeburn Van Buren (The original Jollier (Adam and Eve).

– Striking half page artwork by Arthur T. Merrick showing the evolution of a man from birth to death, Going Up.

– Half page ad for Englebert tyres made in Belgium, I bet the war curtailed that business.

– Two page centerspread art by Watson Barratt, “All in the same boat,” refugees from all walks of life.

– Some current events include : Armament is a trap and Europe is caught in it, Slav and Teuton row in Austria, Every Stock exchange in the world is closed, Triple Alliance, Triple Entente, The enormous topic that is WAR, Interstate Commerce Commission, Railroads.

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

The post Life Magazine – August 13, 1914 (# 1659) – Henry Hutt – Cupid Encouraging Cuddling appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Coca-Cola (Ask the soda man, he’ll tell you the crowd drinks Coca-Cola, art signed with D with an arrow through it), Welch’s grape juice (with cute picnic art).

– Striking small artwork by Norman Anthony showing how canon balls turn into skulls.

– Full page black and white ads for Life subscription (cool art with camel by Orson Lowell), Johnnie Walker Red Label whisky (art by Leo Cheney), Chandler Motor Car company (with labeled engine), Willys-Overland Motor Cars.

– Two page COLOR centerspread art by Angus MacDonall, Hopes, young lady sitting on beach and looking across ocean toward all the young men who will be home some day.

– Some current events include : Everybody seems to feel that Germany might have stopped the war that Austria had started if she had wanted to, War, Germany, War, Germany, France, War, Germany … you get the idea.

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – August 20, 1914 (# 1660) – To the Beach, cross-stitch appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– EASTER NUMBER (a very fat issue).

– Full page COLOR ads for Stevens-Duryea automobiles (nice art by William Harnden Foster), Nylo Chocolates (nice art of couple on a swing, let this be a Nylo Easter),

– Full page ads for Gray & Davis starting-lighting systems (with photos of testers), Fisk Rubber Tires (with yawning toddler, time to re-tire), G. F. Heublein Club Cocktails, Willys-Overland automobile, E. La Montagne’s Sons wines, Chickering pianos, Ohio Electric cars, Remington typewriters, Federal Motor trucks, Hudson Motor cars, Kelly-Springfield tires.

– Lovely half page Franklin Simon and Company dressy tailored suits ads with models 29 and 31.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Gordon Grant (Beethoven), Orson Lowell (Two pages : spring fashions for men (done like women’s fashions), Charles Forbell (April showers), Charles Dana Gibson (Botany in the bowery), F. T. Richards (March),

– Perfect 2/3 artwork by Broughton, “Expiring winter : the mortal wound,” white outline of old man in grass with flowers coming up through the heart.

– Two page COLOR centerspread art by Angus MacDonall, “The path of life,” old man leading two toddlers along a path as cupid and the devil lurk and an angel waits at the far end.

– Some current events include : Lid about to blow off in Ulster, Editor of Paris Figaro has been shot by the wife of the Minister of Finance, Demand for unemployment insurance, Woodrow Wilson.

– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1914 content – fun!

The post Life Magazine – April 2, 1914 (# 1640) – Easter Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page COLOR ad for Victor Talking Machine company with nice art by Norman Price of people dancing.

– Half page real estate ad with photo for beautiful estate near Boston, in Chestnut Hill, constructed in 1906.

– Full page art or cartoon art by William H. Walker (Big Pale-face chief), Charles Forbell (Signs of Spring), Chester I. Garde (Greater efficiency in reluctant congregations … church ushers taking collection while dressed as robbers),

– EXCELLENT 2/3 page artwork by Birchfield, “The helpmate : Can’t you hurry a little, John We don’t seem to be getting anywhere!,” Heavily overburdened man carrying wife and lots of possessions struggling uphill toward wealth.

– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell, “A warm reception : His Majesty, “Do they really know me – or not?””

– Some current events include : Bread lines, unemployment, I.W.W., wholesale laying off of railroads hands, editor calls this “Undigested Uplift” : it sounds much like “Trickle down economics.”

–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1914 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!

The post Life Magazine – April 9, 1914 (# 1641) – Husband Struggling Toward Wealth appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– FOOL’S NUMBER (a fat issue).

– Full page COLOR ads for Fatima Turkish cigarettes (with art of serving tea and cake), Vanity Fair magazine (with reproduction in color of the May 1914 cover, women in puffy pink skirt and white outfit), Baker Electrics motor vehicles.

– Full page ads for Hudson Motor cars, Fisk Rubber company (with nice art of man and dog in car (signed but illegible), Columbia Graphophone, Kelly-Springfield tires, Gray & Davis Starting – Lighting systems, Willys-Overland automobiles.

– Neat half page Westinghouse Electric ad with photo of Pierce-Arrow car driving through a huge tree in the Yosemite grove.

– Nice quarter page ad for Indian motorcycles.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Rodney Thomson (the path of glory), F. T. Richards (April).

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Serious business,” couples dancing.

– Some current events include : Banquet of the American Society of International Law, Mexican troubles, Huerta and Villa, William Hearst has mines in Mexico, A close likeness to civil war in Colorado (a thousand armed miners and the State militia have been fighting).

– “What a jolt it was to all complacent minds to have our ships fire actual missiles at Mexico, and send our actual sailors ashore to capture Vera Cruz.”

– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1914 content – fun!

The post Life Magazine – May 7, 1914 (# 1645) – Fools Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– FEMINIST NUMBER : a fat issue with much on the feminist movement.
– Full page COLOR ads for Gordon Gin (with Gin Daisy drink in pink), Colgate’s talc powder (with nice art by Ruth Eastman).
– Full page ads for Willys-Overland company, Fisk Rubber company tires (with excellent art of man and grandma in a car, not signed but same artist as in 5-7-14), Remington Typewriter, Federal rugged tread tires, Eastern Kodak (vest pocket Kodak), Kelly-springfield tires.
– Nice half page Egyptian Deities cigarettes ad with art by Frank Livingston Fithian of couple on beach with dog, greyhound?
– Winning essays from Life’s Feminist Contest.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (two pages : Summer fashions for women), F. T. Richards (May), Laura Elizabeth Foster (Mother of old, be with us yet).
– Two page centerspread art by A. D. Blashfield (Jonah).
– Some current events include : Welcome back to Colonel Roosevelt (several stone lighter after an illness), Pacification of Mexico, Los Cientificos, Villa and Huerta, Mr. Mellen of the New Haven road, Amending the Anti-Trust law.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1914 content – fun!

The post Life Magazine – June 4, 1914 (# 1649) – Feminist Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– 1950 NUMBER (lots of humorous predictions about life in 1950).

– Full page COLOR ad for Rauch and Lang Electric cars.

– Full page art or cartoon art by A. B. Walker (in 1950), William H. Walker (His punishment : to wear one of these uniforms each day of the week),

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Brown wishes his country wasn’t neutral.”

– Some current events include : “War was forced on Germany”, Austria may already be beaten, Mexico peace not near, The strike problem in Colorado (United Mine workers and federal troops).

– What with mines and submarines and mysterious ailments a British warship has come to be no place for persons of a nervous temperament.”

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

The post Life Magazine – December 10, 1914 (# 1676) appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– THANKSGIVING NUMBER.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Leo Cheney (Johnnie Walker Red Label Whisky ad), William H. Walker (Let U.S. give thanks that it isn’t ..), Orson Lowell (Instead of condemning the women for wearing their evening gowns so low in the back), F. T. Richards (October), Charles Forbell (The spirit of 1914).
– Neat half page art by Gerard C. Delano, “The annual Thanksgiving Festival at Hollywood Glen.”
– Two page centerspread art by C. Broughton “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad”, with Rheims cathedral.
– Some current events and such include : Captain Disco Troop and cod, Germans, Becky Edelson’s disinclination to eat in jail, Vivisection of the railroads, Joseph H. Choate, the Great War.
– Excellent Full page color Vanity Fair ad, most of it is a reproduction of the November 1914 cover with art by Frank X. Leyendecker, ballerina being kissed by a jester.  
– And much more 1914   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

The post Life Magazine – November 5, 1914 (# 1671) – Thanksgiving appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.