Life Magazine – May 27, 1909 (# 1387) – Weddings!

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Cover : A shy and worried looking young bride walking down the aisle with her very happy and much older new husband, art by William Balfour-Ker.

– MATRIMONIAL NUMBER (much on weddings and marriage).
– Full page color ads for Williams’ Talcum Powder, with Violet or Carnation scents.
– Full page black and white ads for Prudential Insurance Company; Ivory Soap (with art of a young woman and her baby sitting on a huge sofa); H. J. Heinz (stating that Heinz products do NOT contain Benzoate of Soda); Life magazine (showcasing the next five issues).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (very small man explaining to the farmer that he has no idea why the bull ran away … the wife is huge and intimidating); F. T. Richards (May).
– Two page center spread art by William H. Walker (Huge, fat US senator representing the big Trusts stands over a flattened and rumpled Uncle Sam who has fallen on the National bird).
– Some current events include : Revision of tariffs and retribution for the tariff fixers; the entire editor’s column pertains to this and related taxes, crimes, and more.
– Describing Congress : “The best man in the scramble is the man who can get the most for his district, his client, himself or whoever he is working for, without regard for the people at whose cost he gets it.”  Sounds familiar, huh?!
– And many, many more smaller artworks and much humor!