Life Magazine – May 13, 1915 (# 1698)

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Cover : Various world leaders done up to look like postage stamps, “Among those present,” art by Ernest Hamlin Baker.  The art style sure looks similar to the Obama HOPE poster.

– Full page color ads for Richmond Straight Cut cigarettes (When our flag had only 37 stars), Baker Electrics Motor Vehicles (with nice art of olive green car on orange background).
– Full page ads for Columbia Records, The Optimists Number of Life, Locomobile, Studebaker, Bull Durham smoking tobacco with art of horseback riding scene, Oldsmobile.
– Nice half page Denby Trucks ad.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Richard Culter (Never too old-fat-thin-awkward to learn, Dance instructor with students), Rea Irvin (Clubs we do not care to join : the Occult Club), P. L. Crosby (If dreams came true : Skippy pitching at a pro baseball game in a packed stadium), Charles Dana Gibson (Tragic moments : it is no longer possible to deny that the baby looks like his father), Wm. H. Walker (The danger zone … the Administration flying in an amphibious aircraft and about to set down in waters filled with mines), Harry Grant Dart (Applicants for membership : still on the waiting list).
– Two page centerspread art by Balfour-Ker, “Neutrals,” huddled and scared citizenry.
– Some current events include : Mr. Roosevelt testifies on his own behalf at the libel case at Syracuse,  Mr. Bird is running for Governor of Massachusetts, Plenty of peace talk but no progress toward it, Germans torpedoed an American oil ship, How thoroughly the Germans are to be drubbed is not yet disclosed.
– Good quote from Roosevelt defending what he said (whenever he gets into oratory trouble), “Whatever I did was right.  I meant to do right; what I did was inspired by the intention and was invariably the rightest thing to do under the circumstances.”
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1915 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!