Life Magazine – March 18, 1915 (# 1690) – St. Patrick’s Day

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Cover : Leprechaun reading Loife, art by F. G. Cooper.

– ST. PATRICK’S NUMBER.
– Quarter page ad for McCallum silk hosiery for men.
– Half page ad for Pennsylvania oilproof vacuum cup tires.
– Illustrators include Richard Culter, Paul Reilly, Thomas Starling Sullivant, Crawford Young, A. D. Blashfield, Otho Cushing, Walter Tittle, A. B. Walker, Donald McKee, Robert L. Dickey, P. L. Crosby (full page), Wm. H. Walker (full page), C. F. Peters, Orson Lowell (full page “Well, it’s almost worth it, to be carried down a ladder by a handsome fireman.”), Pierre M. Artigue, P. Van Buren, Tousey, Rea Irvin (full page, Clubs we do not care to join, The Darwin Club), and many more.
– Let ignorance prevail!, Alabama is the most illiterate state.
– Full page “For the tired business man”, no signature.
– Editorial comments pertain to Obituary notices of the Sixty-third Congress, President Wilson, Too few people having too much power, Jacobites, new Federal Trade Commission, Mr. George Rublee, Submarine and surface shipping blockades, Frightfulness of the Germans, more.
– Two page center spread by Charles Dana Gibson, “Keeping Neutral” (has library stamp).

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