Life Magazine – February 25, 1909 (# 1374) – New President

Description

Cover : This neat cover artwork looks like Teddy Roosevelt (the retiring President) from a distance, but a closer look reveals the new team in his eyeglasses : President William Howard Taft on the left, and Vice-president James Schoolcraft Sherman on the right, art by Blendon Campbell.

– A number of things in this issue pertain to the changing of the President.
– Full page blue and white ad for Williams’ Shaving Stick, Talcum Powder, Jersey Cream soap.
– Full page black and white ads for Life magazine (touts the 6 issues of Life);
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (LENT : Three lovely young ladies waving away the devil).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Broughton, “Uncle’s Rescue,” New President Taft rescuing Uncle Sam from little baby Sherman.
– Some current events include : Life wonders where the anti-women’s suffrage sentiment is coming from;
– This issue has a positively wonderful piece on Women’s Suffrage (Votes for Women) as part of the editor’s column.
– And many, many more smaller artworks and much humor!