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Life Magazine – May 7, 1908 (# 1332) – Henry Hutt – Trying a New Hat

Brenda Wiard — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:29:28 +0000

Cover : Woman trying on a new hat, art by fabulous Henry Hutt.

– Full page color Onyx Hosiery ad with 12 different styles of men’s socks, lots of colorful patterns.

– A number of smaller ads for cars and auto accessories, really neat!

– Full page ad for Chickering pianos.

– Full page artwork by J. Conacher (Watching the race flash by … wild animals watching two men try to dig a car out of a snowbank in the New York to Paris race).
– Two page centerspread art by C. Clyde Squires, three panels of art showing woman writing a love letter, man writing a love letter, couple together in a field of flowers, “The story that never grows old.”
– Pair of full page complementary facing artworks by C. Coles Phillips, “Extract from a letter : Easy Writing’s : Curst Hard Reading.”

– Current events include : Universities try to be a father to hordes of miscellaneous young men, Proposal that the number of intercollegiate sporting contests by reduced so there is less distraction from studies and from sport for health and fitness.

– Funny fake photos of huge vegetables and fruits.

– Short story : With and without, no author listed.

– Half page ad for Waterman’s Fountain Pen with drawing of the building on Broadway and Cortlandt streets, with the Singer Building, the City Investing building, and the Hudson Terminal building.

– Half page Studebaker ad with the Alexandra Basket Phaeton and the Fairfield County Country Club in Greenwich, Connecticut.

– Full page color ad for Baker Electric Vehicles with five different labeled vehicles.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1908 content – fun!

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Life Magazine – May 14, 1908 (# 1333) – Baby eating flies!

Brenda Wiard — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:28:08 +0000

Cover : Throw-back to original cover style, “Wanted : a Perseus, by Miss Democracy,” girl chained to boulder, art by Wm. H. Walker.

– Full page ad for Budweiser beer.

– Two page centerspread art by B. Cory Kilvert, Crowd of kids and other helpers around a broken down car 20 miles from New York.

– Current events include : It is discovered that the Metropolitan Railway used to pay five dollars a day to every policeman who appeared as a witness in a Metropolitan suit. The contrivance of checks on small dishonesties (like cash registers) have become a great commercial industry.

– “It is important to curb monopolies, to restrain great corporations from unjust use of great commercial powers, to regulate railroads so that they shall perform with impartiality the services they were chartered to render, to protect the young and the irresponsible from unnecessary temptations.”

– Creepy half page artwork by William H Walker show dogs about to operate on a Vivisector.

– Another chapter about the LIFE car in the made up New York to Paris car race.

– Very cute quarter page comic artwork by Harry A. Linnell (Baby’s eating the currants off the sticky paper … it is fly paper, of course!).

– Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1908 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!

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Life Magazine – May 21, 1908 (# 1334) – C. Coles Phillips – Woman at Desk

Brenda Wiard — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:26:36 +0000

Cover : Woman sitting at table with a stack of books, Lovely fade-out art by C. Coles Phillips.

– Full page (pale) color Oldsmobile ad with art by Edward Penfield, sepia color ad for Kodak with lovely portrait of a girl.

– Full page ad for Prudential insurance.

– Full page artwork by Post (Possibly Charles Johnson Post)(My dog : itching fleas).
– Two page centerspread art by Wm. H. Walker, “Teddy Roosevelt leading a parade and protecting “Mother Tariff.”

– Current events include : Governor Hughes’s fight against race track betting Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of California asks Secretary of the Navy not to serve intoxicating beverages where members of the fleet are present (I’ll bet that was a popular idea – ha!), Some folks want the legislature to put shackles on the Stock Exchange to curb speculation (This might have helped prevent the big crash in 1929), and more.

– More tongue-in-cheek humor about the LIFE car in the great New York to Paris race, they are now in Persia.

– Quarter page ad for the sale of a house on Strawberry Hill near Manchester, Vermont, on 400 acres, with photo.
– Many more smaller artworks, comics, and humorous bits.

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Life Magazine – May 28, 1908 (# 1335) – C. Coles Phillips – feeding chickens

Brenda Wiard — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:25:05 +0000

Cover : Amazing fadeaway = Fade-out art by C. Coles Phillips, his best!!, woman feeding chickens.

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

– Full page artworks by F. T. Richards (May), unsigned (Berlin! Prosit! Life),

– Two page centerspread art by I. B. Hazelton of Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, “But never the rose without the thorn.”

– Current events include : Cardinal Logue showed concern about the spread of divorce in this country, Divorce is part of the price we pay for monogamy, The World is celebrating their 25th anniversary of when Joseph Pulitzer became its owners.

– Cute little humor piece about LIFE’s car (the Zip) winning the big car race.

– Tommy : “Pop, what is the difference between a dialogue and a monologue#8221; Tommy’s Pop “When two women talk, my son son, it’s a dialogue; when a woman carries on a conversation with her husband, it’s a monologue.”
– Much more.

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Life Magazine – June 4, 1908 (# 1336) – Travel

Brenda Wiard — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:23:42 +0000

Cover : Life’s cherub in a full traveling ensemble with walking stick and suitcase, art by James Montgomery Flagg. Be sure to read the stickers on his suitcase!

– TRAVEL NUMBER (much on traveling, modes of travel, travel destinations, travel humor).

– Full page ads for Mitchell Motor Cars of Racine Wisconsin, Studebaker Suburban (the adaptable car), Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes (Color : Everywhere you go, everywhere they know … continuation of front cover art!).

– Lots of other smaller auto ads and ads related to cars.

– Full page artworks by William H. Walker (What an ex-President can du when his job is thru), Nesbitt Benson (John never plays for money … wife says about husband as he sits in front of huge winnings)

– Two page centerspread art by Harry Grant Dart, “The first international Aerocar Race.”

– Current events include : The interesting question about coal is whether it will go out of existence before it goes out of fashion, or vice versa (especially apt in 2017 with Trump trying to resurrect dirty energy). Flying machines have beun apparently to fly. Messages come from Europe by wireless. Mr. Hearst and his political projects. No great absurdity can flourish long after it is exposed.

– Half page photo of large group of children walking in a circle around the flag, Rallying Round the Flag at Life’s Fresh Air Farm.

– Humorous short piece about traveling with a dog (if you can smuggle him into a hotel room without detection, it fills you with a personal sense of triumph, etc.).

– Country man to Conductor “Which end of the car do I get off#8221; Conductor to Rustic “whichever end you prefer, both ends stop.”
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1908 content – fun!

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Life Magazine – June 11, 1908 (# 1337) – A RICHER Heiress

Brenda Wiard — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:22:01 +0000

Cover : Bride and groom entering meadow under full moon, with group of cherubs carrying bride’s train, art by Wilfrid Huggins.

– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell, “A higher bid but too late,” sad Man discovers a RICHER heiress after he has already captured one.

– Some current events include : Will Taft win?, Headlines out of Chicago, Bad New York State Senator Platt.

– Photo of kids playing Bean Bag at Life’s Fresh Air Farm.

– Full page color ad for Gustavo Bock Cuban cigars.
– Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1908 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!

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Life Magazine – June 18, 1908 (# 1338) – Eloping on Horseback

Brenda Wiard — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:20:31 +0000

Cover : Motherly woman offering cherries to the Life cherub, art by R. M. Crosby.

– Full page ads for 1909 Packard “Thirty,” Kodak (Color : woman with her suitcase and camera).

– Full page artwork by Harrison Cady (Hurrah! The first potato vine is up … potato bugs converging), Will Foster (What’s the meaning of this picture?)

– Half page artwork by Orson Lowell (The wrong twin, when proposing)

– Two page centerspread art by C. Everett Johnson, “The Elopement,” Man chasing down eloping couple in a car, but is stymied when they head cross country on their horses.

– News of the time includes : Chancellor McCracken says students are goofing off too much in college.

– Small photo of a boxing match at Life’s Fresh Air farm.
– Much more.

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Life Magazine – June 25, 1908 (# 1339) – Best View while hiking

Brenda Wiard — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:19:01 +0000

Cover : Dejected jester and old man walking side by side, art by James Montgomery Flagg.

– Lovely full page color ad for Oldsmobile cars with open red car under portico.

– Full page art or comic art by Harry Grant Dart (Picturesque America : a street lined by tall buildings covered with advertising), Nesbitt Benson (Bugbears : the bachelor friend who tells your bride what a gay dog you used to be).

– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell, “The view : a difference of opinion,” old hiking guide pointing out the view while all the men in the group look at the only young woman in the group.

– Currently in the news : The result of the Republican Convention is soon to be announced, Roosevelt isn’t running again but he made sure Taft does, Eminent muckraker Lincoln Steffens is tired of Tumult and prosecution.

– Small photo from Life’s Fresh Air Farms of girls and boys reading letters from home.
– Much more.

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Life Magazine – March 12, 1908 (# 1324) – C. Coles Phillips – Spring Bonnet

Brenda Wiard — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:17:09 +0000

Cover : Lovely woman in an Easter bonnet with lots of flowers and a huge bow, unusual early art by the famous C. Coles Phillips.

– Full page art by Albert Levering (Our national life : a day with the lawmakers).

– Full page ad for Schlitz beer, The Home Beer, all text.

– Very interesting two page centerspread art by Bayard Jones of group of people at a pond with their true animal selves reflecting in the water (i.e. peacock, ass, pig, kitten, etc.), “To see ourselves as others see us.”
– Some current events include : District attorney Jerome is not doing his work, Prosecution of high officials of the New York Central Railroad, Should Thomas Ryan be in jail?

– The editor of Life uses English so well … for example, in this week’s column he used the words amuck, malefactor, turpitude, demagoguery, rascality, credulous and more.

– Cute 2/3 page art by Orson Lowell, “George, do take your arm away, quick! Something seems to tell me that papa is approaching,” young couple on sofa see the belly of a large man protruding beyond a doorway.
– Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1908 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!

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Life Magazine – March 19, 1908 (# 1325) – St. Patrick’s Day

Brenda Wiard — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:15:36 +0000

Cover : Little Leprechaun playing huge harp, art by James Montgomery Flagg.

– SAINT PATRICK’S DAY NUMBER.

– Full page color ad for Mitchell Motor Car company with three small vintage photos in color and lovely larger art of the car in color.

– Two page centerspread art by Geo W. Barratt, “Those who dance must pay the piper,” sad group of people walking along the road next to sign “ten miles to order.”

– Interesting quarter page ad for Pompeian Massage Cream, “Gives a clear, fresh, velvety skin,” “Rub out, to-night, the wrinkles of today,” ” Comparisons may be odious, but they are human.”

– Half page artwork by Bayard Jones showing a poor gentleman resting precariously on the supports under a rail car, “To exchange – a lower berth for an upper.”

– Current events include : Prohibition, Calvinist scheme of salvation, Race track question (is it right to race horses?), The basic principle of current reformers = “All men are natural criminals and belong in jail.”
– Much more.

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