Life Magazine – October 6, 1910 (# 1458) – Ballerina

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Cover : Ballerina dancing alone on a stage, a thrown nosegay lies nearby, art by Lejaren a Hiller.

– 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!