– Full page color ads for Columbia Motor Car Company (another great artwork by Geo. Gibbs, this one showing a car in a crate being unloaded after a foreign trip), Baker Electric (A monopoly of real improvements … wet night scene).
– Full page black and white ad for Jones Speedometer (United Manufacturers).
– Full page art or cartoon art by F. T. Richards (March).
– Two page centerspread art by Raymond Crosby, A table arrangement by one of our most popular hostesses, one pretty lady seated with all the men.
– Some current events include : Uses for the money in the proposed Rockefeller Foundation; Charities; Handling alcoholics; Elevating political ethics.
– The “Popular Birthdays” page is really witty, such as for Wilbur Wright, “Life feels a sort of comradeship for Mr. Wright, inasmuch as it is the mission of each of us to overcome the effects of too much gravity.”
– And much, much more including many artworks and much humor.

The post Life Magazine – March 31, 1910 (# 1431) – C. Coles Phillips appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– HOTEL NUMBER (much fun related to hotels).
– Full page color ads for Columbia Motor Car Company (Oh My Goodness – Gorgeous artwork by Geo. Gibbs of driver and two passengers with a car), Crystal Domino Sugar (landscape format).
– Full page black and white ads for Studebaker Garford “40” seven-passenger with disappearing folding seats, Rambler Automobiles, Detroit Electric (Anderson Carriage Company, with photo of car with two women).
– Coronation of Pierpont First, art and text, this is humor not fact related to J. P. Morgan.
– Extraordinarily cute half page artwork by Harrison Cady, “Ye Old Oak Inn,” critters occupying various parts of a tree.
– Another great half page artwork, this one by C. Barnes, “Opening of the first Congo quick lunch on the “Help yourself” plan,” African animals eating everything in sight.
– Really odd half page ad for the Equitable Life Assurance Society, “Brain Fag and Carking Care.”
– Two page centerspread art by Harry Grant Dart, “All the comforts of home,” hotel humor.
– Humorous multi-page fiction piece by Chesterton Todd, “Right Up There,” hotel humor.
– Some current events include : Rockefeller applies for a federal charter for the Rockefeller Foundation for charitable needs (it was said “his fortune was rolling up so fast his heirs would “dissipate their inheritances or become intoxicated with power”, unless he set up “permanent corporate philanthropies for the good of Mankind”. This was the Standard Oil fortune.); The federal budget has not been passed; Ballinger-Pinchot proceedings drag on; Philadelphia street car strike; Struggle with Japan over trade rights in Manchuria, and more.
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – March 24, 1910 (# 1430) – Hotel Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– CHRISTMAS NUMBER (a very FAT issue with wonderful content).
– Full page color ads for Oldsmobile Limousine (not signed), Williams’ shavers, Rubberset brushes, Victor-Victrola, Locomobile (photo), Rambler closed cars, Gillette shavers, Maxwell-Briscoe Motor company (art by P), Rock Island – Golden State Limited railway, Goodrich Tires, Pierce-Arrow (with excellent western theme art by Edward Borein), Eastman Kodak.
– Full page ads for McCallum silk hosiery, Peter’s Milk Chocolate (with Wonderful art with Santa Claus, not signed), Hartford Suspension company (Truffault – Hartford shock absorber), The White gasoline car, Meriden silversmiths, Hupp-Yeats electric car company, Londonderry spring water, Belle Mead Sweets, Baldwin Piano, Educator Crackers, Woodbury’s Facial soap (nice art, sentry at an Atlantic Coast Fortress), Willys-Overland cars, Welch’s Grape Juice, Harper’s magazine.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Power O’Malley (I wonder which chimney it is … Santa looking at house with many chimneys), Orson Lowell (landscape format : A word to the rich), Otho Cushing (four pages, The Memoirs of Columbia 1 and 2 and 3 and 4), Wilder (As it appears to some … Santa holding guns on an old gentleman as he empties his pockets), Harrison Cady (Beetleburgh does its Christmas shopping), Angus MacDonall (Nothing to do but grin and bear it), George Wright (probably)(Some Christmas dinners), Unsigned (two pages : a bird in the air is worth two on the ground), Balfour-Ker (The honeymoon),
– Why Burroughs Quit, a dramatic sketch by William Wallace Whitelock.
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “A Christmas Story.”
– And much more 1910   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

The post Life Magazine – December 1, 1910 (# 1466) – C. Coles Phillips – Christmas Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– EVE AND ADAM NUMBER (the sarcastic humor in this issue may not suit religious folks, but others will find it hilarious).
– Full page ads for Chalmers Motor company (runs with eagerness), Country Life magazine, Life’s Suffragette contest, Packard Motor trucks (with nice art of Curtis and Pope Lumber Company truck), McFarnlan Motor Car company, The Gasoline number of Life, Life calendars for 1911, Michelin anti-skid tires.
– Half page ad for Premier Motor Mfg with nice art.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (The First Wardrobe : a dress for every day in the year).
– Two page centerspread art by Angus MacDonall, “John, I really must get some new gowns.  I’m simply in rags.”
– Some current events include : Tolstoi, On being good and great and not wise.
– And so much more!  Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!

The post Life Magazine – December 8, 1910 (# 1467) – Adam and Eve Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– WINTER TRAVEL NUMBER (much on travelers, trips, vacations).
– Full page ads for Molly Make-Believe by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Locomobile, Packard Motor Cars (1911 Packard Eighteen Fore-door Limousine), Rambler closed cars, Columbia Motor Car company, Abbott Motor Company.
– Striking full page color Pierce-Arrow Motor car ad, At the Aviation Meet, art by John E. Sheridan.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Mark Fenderson (in the Good Olde Days).
– Two page centerspread art by William H. Walker, “The law : returning Americans will be regarded as criminals until proved innocent,” customs house, tourists dressed in stripes and being shaken down.
– Some current events include : The Interstate Commerce Commission and the shippers of the Eastern Seaboard and freight costs, More efficient industry, Greater interest in the consumer, Tariffs.
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – December 15, 1910 (# 1468) – Winter Travel Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – December 29, 1910 (# 1470) – New Years Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color Oldsmobile / Olds Motor Works ad with lovely color art by William Harnden Foster.
– Full page ads for Locomobile, Thomas Flyer (Thomas Motor Company), Hudson Motor Car Company, Truffault – Hartford shock absorbers, Life magazine’s next issue Plumage Number, Rambler cars (Thomas B. Jeffery Company), Goodyear Welt shoe soles, Baldwin Piano company, The Grand Rapids furniture company, Life’s Great Auto Race, Gillette shavers (landscape format with excellent art of sailors, not signed by sure looks similar to Leyendecker).
– Quarter page ad for Savage automatic hand gun, Cold Steel vs. Cold Sweat.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (Stirring times for father, how long will he keep it up … man juggling household supplies).
– Cute half page comic art by Ralph Barton showing the staff of a magazine.
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Broughton, Lovers of Freedom, men fleeing a lady handing out Free Trade.
– Full page ad for F. B. Stearns Company motor cars, nice art by Ray Parmelee.
– Some current events include : New York state political conventions still going on at press time, It is an excellent year for the New York State Republicans to rend one another, Mayor Gaynor, The trials and misfortunes of Mr. Chanler who married the opera-singer and conveyed to her various valuable remnants of property, Papers full of stories of reconciled divorced couples.
– And much more 1910   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

The post Life Magazine – October 6, 1910 (# 1458) – Ballerina appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– PLUMAGE NUMBER (hats, bird feathers).
– Full page color ads for Woodbury soap (art by E. P. Ottendorf), Pierce-Arrow cars (nice winter night time scene by Adolph Treidler).
– Full page ads for The White Landaulet gasoline car (nice art), Packard Motor Trucks (with art of Marshall Field and Company truck), Meriden Company silversmiths, Michelin tires (Semelle anti-skids), Gorham Company wedding invitations, Life’s great auto race, Country Life magazine, Franklin Automobile company, Pompeian Massage cream (in blue).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Sanford Tousey (When the men’s tailors adapt the Chantecler modes), William H. Walker (landscape format : my horse, New Nationalism), Otho Cushing (Ancestral, a study in American headgear), Leighton Budd (This milliner made a hat for my cook just like mine).
– Two page centerspread art by P. D. Johnson, “The Great Spirit.”
– Some current events include : Usefulness of Theodore Roosevelt as a political umpire, Stimson’s nomination, Political campaigns.
– And so much more!  Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!

The post Life Magazine – October 13, 1910 (# 1459) – Plumage Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Lovely full page color Peerless Motor Car ad, Silence and Comfort, not signed.
– Full page ads for Cluett Shirts, Locomobile, Life’s Midnight number, Baker Electrics (Baker Motor Vehicle Company, nice art by (possibly) R.J. Campbell – this signature has long been a frustration, almost readable, but not quite.  If you have more information please tell me.), Overland autos, McFarlan Motor Car company, Life’s great auto race, Cunningham cars.
– Two page centerspread art by the wonderful Harry Grant Dart, “If it should happen again,” Noah and the ark.
– Some current events include : Is a vote for Stimson for governor of New York a vote for Roosevelt for President in 1912?, Political campaigns, Disturbance in Portugal attends the termination of the engagement of King Manuel.
– Many cartoons and smaller ads.
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – October 20, 1910 (# 1460) – C. Coles Phillips – Scottish Girl appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

MIDNIGHT NUMBER.
– Artists and cartoonists include Crawford, F. T. Richards (full page), W. R. Graupner, F. G. Cooper, Art Young, A. B. Walker, Calvert Smith, Rm. Crosby, Lutz, Artigue, C. J. Budd, Hammond, Angus MacDonall, Ralph C. Criswell, Paul Goold, T. S. Sullivant, Harry Grant Dart (full page), Orson Lowell, Mary Eleanor George and others.
– Full page color Pierce Arrow car ad with cowboy on horse, art by Edward Borein.
– Two page center spread art by Orson Lowell, Negotiating for carfare (broke gentlemen after a card game).
– Full page Chalmers Motor Company ad, Detroit, motor cars.
– Full page ad about Life Magazine’s Great Auto Race – number of lines of advertising from October 1, 1910 to April 1, 1911 (Locomobile currently first, Kelly Motor Truck currently last).
– Pretty full page Packard Motor cars ad with 1911 year.
– Current topics include Colonel Roosevelt, Republican platform at Saratoga, Expulsion of monks and nuns from Portugal, McClure’s magazine and an untruthful account of Ferrer, more.
– The American Girl.
– Don’t let your wife grow selfish, by Able Earner.
– Bearing cheerfully the misfortunes of others.
– Wanted : a contributing editor.
– Life’s infallible fortune teller, if you were born on October 27-30, like astrology.
– Priscilla still in the ring, suffragettes.
– Half page Smith Premier typewriter ad with illustration.
– Half page Field and Stream magazine ad, affiliation with Camp Fire Club.
– Half page bulletin, opening of Great Pennsylvania railroad station in New York.
– Full page color Pall Mall cigarettes ad.
– And more.

The post Life Magazine – October 27, 1910 (# 1461) – Midnight Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.