Life Magazine – November 1, 1894 (# 618) – Sweet Talker

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Cover : “He Got Both: So you wish my daughter for your wife?  Partly that, Madam, and partly that you may be my mother-in-law,” clever art by the excellent Charles Dana Gibson.

– Full page art or cartoon art by T.S. Sullivant (two different interpretations of “pain in stomach” by tramp and soldier), Probably F. G. Attwood (October),

– Two page centerspread art by F. T. Richards, The plague of darkness (set in ancient Egypt, pertaining to US government and corruption by the rich).

– Some current events include : There seems to be no Democrat now living in New York for whom all the other Democrats are willing to vote, The Czar is dying, A 15 story building is called a sky scraper and it was not expected to be very durable, Football disputes between Yale and Princeton.

– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!

– And much more 1894   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!