Life Magazine – August 25, 1910 (# 1452)

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Cover : Young man fishing – will he catch the mermaid or a fish?, “Fisherman’s Luck,” art by Power O’Malley.

– Full page ads for Locomobile (with photo), Imaginary advertising in Life, Ladies Home Journal, Sporting Number of Life, Gold Medal flour.
– Much art or cartoon art, and smaller ads.
– Half page ad for Winchester rifles, The trigger controlled repeater : it hits like the Hammer of Thor.
– Two page centerspread art by R. G. Russom, “What’s to Hinder?  New York’s favorite summer resort.”
– Some current events include : The WCTU tries to get Mrs. Longworth to stop smoking, Apparently European ladies are more attractive now that they smoke because the men join them after dinner much sooner than they used to, Tobacco in modern society, Mayor Gaynor is recovering from his injuries (he was shot on August 9th by a former city employee), Dr. J. H. Kellogg of Michigan says that insanity has doubled in the last thirty years and that, at that rate, the entire population will be crazy by 2175.
– “There are those who insist that the current candy habit, which in the main is a female habit, is as unwholesome as any practice that is cultivated by the males” (such as smoking and drinking).
– And much, much more.