Life Magazine – January 9, 1913 (# 1576)

– AUTOMOBILE NUMBER (this is a very FAT issue with 95 pages).
– Lots and lots of car ads, car-related pieces, car humor.
– Full page color Baker Electrics car ad (Baker Motor Vehicle company) with blue car in snow storm.
– Full page color Lozier car ad with night scene in winter, picking up fancy people from an event, art by G. W. Peters.
– Full page ads with color : Truffault-Hartford Shock absorbers, Oldsmobile, Fisk tires (with curious art of black man collecting rubber from a tree), Stevens-Duryea C-Six (nice art!), Motor Age publication, Republic staggard tread tires, Buffalo Electric vehicle company, White company, Peerless Six for 1913 (nice art! With Albright Art Gallery), Pierce-Arrow (art by Foster).
– Full page ads for 1913 Locomobile, Exide electric storage battery, Weed Chain Tire Grip company, Mack Saurer Hewitt trucks, Gray & Davis automobile equipment, Gramm Trucks, Packard Left-drive “38” (Packard Motor Car Company), Cole Motor Car company, Nordyke & Marmon company, Kelly-Springfield tire company, Willys-Overland company, Michigan Motor car company of Kalamazoo, Garford Company, Hoffecker Waltham watches, Oakland Motor Car company, National Motor Vehicle company, Stearns-Knight car, Diamond tires.
– One third page Colt Revolvers ad for Home Protection, you can’t forget to make it safe.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (There’s a rumor that we are having a serious affair), Arthur Lewis (I believe)(The trusted employee), Harrison Cady (Fairyland), Rea Irvin (Sports of All Nations : a Night Owf in Glasgow), Rea Irvin (Sports of all nations : tunneling for ostriches in the Transvaal), Rea Irvin (Sports of all nations : Treeing elephants in the Indian jungle), F. T. Richards (Two pages : a review of 1912), Will Allen (Extending our pure food limits : inspection of the man in the moon’s green cheese works), Harry Grant Dart (History as it might have been : Richard III at Bosworth Field : my kingdom for a horse!), Harry Grant Dart (History as it might have been : Horatius at the Bridge).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Meeting her sister’s city friends.”
– Some current events include : Democratic party is in a critical situation, The adjustment of the automobile to human life is going on pretty well, expensive subway construction, Big spending on Panama canal, general economy doing well and people spending more, Governor Osborn of Michigan gave away his car and is done with autos, Improvements needed in driving skills, Balkan war.
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1913 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!