– Full page color ads for Sheaffer’s pens and pencils, Ethyl gasoline (Dart away with ethyl … with mackerel).
– Full page black and white ads for Listerine, American Golfer magazine, Winner’s of the Life contest for a caption to the art pertaining to the new golf ball, Full page of articles about new golf ball excerpted from other publications.
– Full page art or cartoon art by J. Cassell (Male aviator buying sandwiches for himself and a fellow female aviator), Garrett Price (Oh the great out-doors – how I love them!), Edwina (Sinbad : Candy Cracker), Ed Graham (The spirit of 1931), Harrison Cady (Reprinted from Life July 2, 1908, The Fourth in our village).
– I object to the torture inflicted on characters in magazine serials!
– CUTE : A city man crosses a country road (he waits until the car is almost there and then dashes across right in front of it), art by I. Klein.
– Two page centerspread art by Clifford McBride (Fisherman’s Luck … lots of funny things that can befall a boating fisherman … he eventually goes home with a chicken).
– Beginning next week in Life : articles written by Ely Culbertson on Contract bridge.
– Some current events include : National Flag Day, Dr. Murray Bulter is in Paris for the Carnegie Peace Foundation, Dr. Harold B. Clark has been arrested and tells of an organization to steal rare books from libraries and sell them, Families of policemen killed in the line of duty should be taken care of.
– And much more 1931   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

The post Life Magazine – July 3, 1931 (# 2539) – Fisherman’s Luck appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ad for Camel cigarettes.
– Full page black and white ads for Listerine (with terrier dog, Nobody paid me $1000), Life and the new golf ball (responses from readers, two pages).
– “It is characteristic of France to show her concern for mankind by looking out vigilantly for France.”
– Full page art or cartoon art by Edwina (Sinbad – tenting tonight), Otto Soglow (Man enjoying the morning and doing his exercises in front of a window … and then jumping out of it, committing suicide), Perry Barlow (Sonny and Patricia … this signature looks a bit different, but I think it is him), Power O’Malley (reprint from Life June 2, 1910, dog on dock mourning his master leaving on ship)
– Two page centerspread art by Gluyas Williams (The dandelion), man trying everything to get a dandelion out of his yard … and failing.
– Cute! Four square 1/3 page cartoon art by Bill Holman of a cow altering a painting with his tongue and then the abstract art winning First Place.
– 1/3 page art by Dr. Seuss, ad for Flit bug repellant, The Ambush.
– Some current events include : President Hoover’s moratorium toward maintaining peace and solvency among nations, People starting on perilous adventures (Sir Hubert Wilkins and taking a submarine under the North Pole, Pilot Ruth Nichols), Education.
– Frank Craven writes on golf, the new ball.
– Cute half page comic art by Bill Holman (Kids on an extended go-cart labeled “Sight Seein Bus” … and on your right – Mrs. O’Brien’s step-ins (underwear)).
– And so much more!  1931 Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!

The post Life Magazine – July 10, 1931 (# 2540) – Diving into the Water appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for New Ford convertible Cabriolet (with Just Married art), Powers Reproduction Corporation (with lady model in blue and white outfit), Lucky Strike cigarettes (with Virginia Cross).
– Full page black and white ads for Metropolitan Life Insurance (cultured germs from glass).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Jack Markow (That’s Uncle Sam’s divorced wife … statue of Liberty), Edwina (Sinbad … the worm’s turn), Kemp Starrett (Adam : something I ate, no doubt!), J. Cassel (The prohibitionist sows, the racketeer reaps).
– Two page centerspread art by Howard Elcock (The skyscraper, workmen on girders).
– Two page art reprinted from Life July 22, 1920, art by Anton Otto Fischer, The sixth day, dog and man shipwrecked in dingy with ship passing them in fog.
– 1/6th page art by Dr. Seuss, Flit advertisement.
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – July 24, 1931 (# 2542) – Sneaking out to Golf appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Good Year tires (with Arch of Titus in Rome), Ethyl Gasoline (Swift as a swallow), Lucky Strike cigarettes (consider your Adam’s apple, with Estelle Skinner).
– Full page black and white ad for Listerine (eggs).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Perry Barlow (Sonny and Patricia … do you hear as much noise as I hear Eating toast), Garrett Price (If we can get some good jazz now … couple camping in the deep woods), Edwina (Sinbad : the racketeer … begging at different food shops), Will B. Johnstone (I see in the papers).
– Great dramas in sport by Jack Kofoed.
– One third page photo of swimming pool full of kids at Life’s Fresh Air camp.
– Some current events include : Europe after the war, Wickersham Commission and federal prisons, deportation laws, police interrogation, Flying men, Theodore Roosevelt’s portrait on the five cent stamp does not look like him.
– Two page art reprinted from Life August 8, 1895 by Charles Dana Gibson, The newlyweds had been in their room but a moment when they were startled by a knock … porter bringing luggage.
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – August 28, 1931 (# 2547) – Are you Color Blind? appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Sheaffer’s pens and pencils, Cadillac (La Salle 7-passenger sedan in burgundy and black with art of couple in evening wear), Camel cigarettes (with photo of football player and two lady fans).
– Full page black and white ads for Spud menthol-cooled cigarettes (with odd art of wife watching her husband shave while he smokes, “Your Good morning cigarette”), Unemployment relief (Forward!), Listerine.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Edwina (Sinbad : what’s the matter now! … boy praises his dog for tripping a member of the opposing football team, then scolds him when the dog trips he himself, poor dog is confused.), unsigned (Pair of art panels showing doctor successfully treating sick child and (next panel) parents discovering they can pay every bill but the doctor’s), Will B. Johnstone (I see by the papers), Howard K. Elcock (Back stage).
– Fulfill your destiny! Be a man! Or a woman! Or what have you Yogi Cluett.
– A sample of Life’s sarcastic humor : “An escaped monkey in Norwood, NJ, made himself a nuisance by going around nights blowing the horns of parked cars.  Suspicion that it was a monkey was aroused by the fact that the boys were away at college.”
– Is it more fun to be a moron An argument against intelligence.
– And much more 1931   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

The post Life Magazine – November 6, 1931 (# 2557) – Curmudgeonly Neighbor appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Camel cigarettes, Cadillac cars (with V-16 passenger coupe in burgundy and pink, with art of woman in pink riding side-saddle), Lucky Strike cigarettes (with art of Jean Harlow in long fuchsia gown that looks like a nightgown).
– Full page black and white ads for Unemployment relief (Morale), Metropolitan Life Insurance (The gifts you get, art by James Montgomery Flagg), Listerine, Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harry Grant Dart (picture puzzle), Gilbert Bundy (Some shot – eh folks   … boy has shot the fox subject of a formal fox hunt, riding to the hounds), Gluyas Williams (The day of the Yale-Harvard game, a Princeton man is a guest at the Harvard club), Edwina (Sinbad : Aw, what’s the use), Will B. Johnstone (I see by the papers),
– Great dramas in sport by Jack Kofoed.
– From subway to suburb in the same generation, by Sam Hellman.
– A sample of the sarcastic humor in Life : “A man makes the best boss,” said 184 out of 200 shop girls who were questioned on the subject – proving that only 16 of them were married.”
– Very cool 2/3 page ad for advertising on city buses with photo of Fifth Avenue Coach Company double decker bus.
– And so much more!  1931 Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!

The post Life Magazine – November 13, 1931 (# 2558) – Boy and his Dog appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Hawaii (with art of Waikiki’s beach scene), Camel Cigarettes (with four people at the supper table, Something to be thankful for).
– Full page ad for President’s Organization on Unemployment relief, World’s Wit and Humor (book set).
– A bird in the hand gathers no moss, humor by Sam Hellman.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Edwina (Sinbad : Program coming in fine!), C. W. Anderson (and she’s going to marry this guy and live in the sticks – can you beat it!), E. Simms Campbell (The convalescent … boy rough-housing with friend), Harry Grant Dart (Rebus # 2, a story in pictures).
– Some current events include : Silver prices are rising as are wheat, China and Japan seem to be having a war, Troubles building in Europe, Great Depression, Prohibition of narcotics.
– “It is more and more evident that this world would be all right if the people in it were not so stupid.”
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – November 27, 1931 – Optimism appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Ethyl Gasoline (with nice art by Stark Davis with white heron against white sky, Here’s Flexibility), and Camel Cigarettes (Natural moisture, the key to freshness.
– Full page ads for Spud menthol-cooled cigarettes (with art of woman hunting, shotgun cracked open), Listerine, President’s Organization on Unemployment Relief (nice art by signature illegible, might be Rico Tomson).
– From Grand Rapids to Louis Quatorze just for the Ride, humor by Sam Hellman.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Edwina (Sinbad: let us be thankful), Bill Holman (several small artworks), Harry Haenigsen (The big business deal … can’t sleep all night, falls asleep in meeting), Perry Barlow (Sonny and Patricia : fire in Hoffer’s barn), Harry Grant Dart (Rebus word picture writing puzzle), Will B. Johnstone (I see by the papers).
– Nuremberg, Germany: the old Sausage Bell claims to be the first hot dog stand in the world  It has been doing business at the same stand for four centuries.
– Some current events include : How much Navy should we have?, Alfred Smith disagreeing with Governor Franklin Roosevelt about forestry, Cheapening electric power, Borah’s scandalous remarks to the French journalists, Lamont from Morgan’s bank speaks on the state of the world by reviewing a book by a German banker.
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – November 20, 1931 – Turkey’s Last Days appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – October 9, 1931 (# 2553) – Duck Flying South appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – October 16, 1931 (# 2554) – White meets Black appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.