Life Magazine – March 11, 1915 (# 1689) – Boy playing warlike Indian

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Cover : Appalled little girl holding her bound and scalped doll as a sheepish little boy holding hatchet and wearing feather headdress looks on, “Another Indian Outrage,” art by S. Werner.  Yup, this cover is not politically correct!

– Full page color ads for Fatima Turkish cigarettes, Baker Electrics Motor Vehicles (with nice art of olive green car on white background).
– Full page ads for Hudson Motor Cars (car on a delicate bridge, “Lightness can be combined with strength”), Studebaker cars, United States Tire Company (Nobby treads), Woodbury’s Facial soap, Mobil Oil, Willys-Overland Coupe (with photo).
– Full page art or cartoon art by C. LeRoy Baldridge (Spring : steelworker on high rise girder watching swallow fly by), Wm. H. Walker (Whose country?), Charles Dana Gibson (After the reception … I’m so tired), Harrison Cady (Two separate pages, landscape format, “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind).
– Two page centerspread art by William H. Walker, “Peace hath her victories,” various graft and governmental inefficiencies like “High Tariff” and such.
– Some current events include : Fine obituaries written for Mr. Root of the Senate, The sixty-third Congress has done its work and quit, Englishman H. G. Wells has been speaking kindly of the US, Constantinople may soon be in Allied hands.
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1915 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!