– Full page color ads for Good Year Double Eagle tires, Ethyl gasoline (Acceleration with Mallard ducks, art by Stark Davis), Camel cigarettes.
– Full page black and white ads for Johnston & Murphy shoes for men (with Hotel Schenley in Pittsburgh), Mohawk Rubber Company of Akron Ohio (Flat tread special balloon tires), Mimeograph, Cine-Kodak (Home movie camera), Where does your Congressman stand on Prohibition?, Command-Aire (Airplanes made in Little Rock, Arkansas, starting at $5,675).
– Quarter page artwork by Dr. Seuss, Flit ad, nightmare victim.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Russell Patterson (It’s all right, Mabel, I thought I’d bring along a Red Cap.  Eloping woman finds black bellhop on the ladder outside her window), R. B. Fuller (Wish I had a house like that!  Guy with house on top of skyscraper looking at identical house on taller skyscraper), Edwina (Sinbad : It’s a great game, baseball), Dr. Seuss (Life’s Little educational charts : Connoisseur of silence), Ralph Barton (Dorothy Appleby and Constance Collier), Gardner Rea (The lad who didn’t mind waiting, a drama of Stone Mountain – this is FUNNY!!).
– Willingdrift by Eric Hatch, Hobo (this must be a serial, even though Life generally doesn’t do these).
– Wesley Jones and the Wreck of No. 18 (another of these Home-Brew Mountain Ballads, to the tune of Casey Jones).  
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – April 18, 1930 (# 2476) – Rolf Armstrong’s American Ideal appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ad for General Dual-Balloon 8 tires, with art by Fred Mizen of outfielder stepping into the path of a car to catch a home run.
– Full page black and white ads for Houde Engineering Corporation (A bucking broncho may look like a saddle horse … test ride the Houdaille system on a rough road), White Star Line and Red Star Line cruises and transport (very cool art deco art by Armand, Shipboard ‘at home’ … who knows his full name?, not Rapeno), Canada Dry Ginger ale (with excellent art of woman playing tennis), American Bankers Association (art by Earl Blossom, ABA, early travelers’ checks), Chevrolet (with NEAT art of car on one-car sized ferry, not signed).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Kemp Starrett (What! No penthouse!), R. B. Fuller (2/3 page, people on skyscraper rooftops greeting each other in city, Howdy Neighbor!), R. B. Fuller (News reel : dynamiting a jam in the Detroit River … cases of liquor), Edwina (Sinbad : Oh well, I guess I’ll run along, dog with a goat), Dr. Seuss (Life’s little educational charts, on the horns of a dilemma), Gardner Rea (It’s rather rough on mother), Ralph Barton (Glenn Anders and Ruth Gordon), Perry Barlow (The tower where the king imprisoned the princess, farm kids pointing to grain silo),
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1930 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!

The post Life Magazine – May 9, 1930 (# 2479) – John Lagatta’s American Ideal appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Sheaffer’s pens and pencils (Balance), Atwater Kent Radios.
– Full page black and white ads for Cord front-drive (Auburn Automobile company), Wilson Golf bags.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Kemp Starrett (Speaking of unemployment, big “Men wanted” sign on the capitol building), Gardner Rea (Friends of the Astorbilts stage a little surprise party), Edwina (Sinbad : starting the day right!).
– Some current events include : Predictions from a woman in eastern Massachusetts, Racketeering, England is in tough shape, War debts.
– Half page ad pertaining to the spoons being given away in half pound packages of Pekoe and Orange Pekoe teas, Rogers 1865 silver-plated pattern.
– And so much more!  1930 Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!

The post Life Magazine – September 12, 1930 (# 2497) – Corn on the Cob appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Sheaffer’s Skrip ink, Atwater Kent radios.
– Full page black and white ads for Schrafft’s candies and chocolates, Philco radios.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Victor C. Anderson (You wouldn’t call him “at large” would you Policeman talking to little girl with little puppy in front of “No dogs allowed at large” sign), Edwina (Sinbad – “bear” rabbit), Gardner Rea (The wrecking of the Union League Club uncovers a long missing member (sleeping unharmed in his chair)), Robert Orr (Here’s the church, here’s the steeple …), Robert Orr (Joe Cook and his plush pony ballet), Horace Taylor (reprinted from Life October 18, 1906, The hunting season opens),
– George E. Klenzendorff served in the State Assembly of Wisconsin from 1907 to 1909 and just discovered he was not an American citizen (2Neat notes : this is true, he petitioned later to become a citizen).
– Some current events include : Explorer F. A. Mitchell-Hedges plans to examine the jungles of Honduras in search of the cradle of man, Soviet leaders seem to aim to exterminate religion and private property, Methodists and Bishop Cannon, War with Europe is only a matter of time.
– “One reason for the slow pace of the war in China is that they are fighting on a pay-as-you-go basis, instead of being financed in America.”
– And so much more!  1930 Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!

The post Life Magazine – October 10, 1930 (# 2501) – Don’t go with HER appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Sheaffer’s pens and pencils, Ethyl Gasoline (power, art of eagle by Stark Davis), Heinz Rice Flakes cereal.
– Full page black and white ads for Gillette shaving blades.
– Full page art or cartoon art by R. B. Fuller (Good heavens! My car’s been stolen! … man sitting in his car looking into his empty garage), Edwina (Sinbad : of all the nerve! … Sinbad the dog being bothered by a kitten), Gardner Rea (The American Federation of Musicians hears that the government decided to come to their relief), Raymond Crosby (reprinted from Life May 2, 1912 … the hand that rules the world).
– The ultimate store by Don Herold.
– Quarter page photo of cool out-post camp built by the kids at one of Life’s Fresh Air camps for inner city kids.
– Some current events include : Republican Morrow, King Carol of Romania likes the ladies (he returned to rule June 8, 1930 after a basically misspent youth and early adulthood).
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – July 18, 1930 (# 2489) – Gutsy dog stealing bone appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Ethyl Gasoline (with excellent art by Stark Davis of a white crane bird against a red sky, Control), and for Lucky Strike cigarettes with woman in pale yellow dress (20,679 physicians say Luckies are less irritating).
– Full page ads for Opening of Hotel Charlotte Harbor, Useppa Inn and Gasparilla Inn in Florida, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (with mother holding six month old child).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Kemp Starrett (Preacher getting the game report in the middle of a wedding, “Notre Dame 12 – Army 0), Don Herold (Say, how do you suppose I putt with you coughing), Paul Carruth (O ye of little faith … table busser), Edwina (Sinbad: the melancholy days are here), Horace Taylor (The village election, from Life November 2, 1905).
– Half page art by Jack Arthur, notable because it is now very politically INcorrect, pertaining to black folks, “’Course I ain’t got no chillun, Mose.  Don’t you know I’se a baroness.”
– Some current events include : Governor Roosevelt is preparing to run for re-election, Tammany, Julian Huxley and African wildlife, Monthly death roll in New York for homicides by motor cars is about forty.
– And much, much more.

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The post Life Magazine – October 17, 1930 – Raking Autumn Leaves appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – November 7, 1930 (# 2505) – Cheating at Solitare appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – November 14, 1930 (# 2506) – Fox Hunting from cars appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – November 21, 1930 (# 2507) – Thanksgiving appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – November 28, 1930 (# 2508) – Bird Dog with Turkey appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.