Life Magazine – July 29, 1920 (# 1969) – Old Clothes Number

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Cover : Cute art of mother cutting down huge pants to fit little boy, “Dad’s,” art by Angus MacDonall.

– OLD CLOTHES NUMBER.
– Full page ads for Michelin Universal Cord tires (color, with seated Michelin man), Templar Motors Company (superfine small car), Ruud water heaters, Gillette razors (with nice art, signed with interlocking DD), Liberty Lens (Headlights, art by H. Gilbert Levine), Murad Turkish cigarettes (Color, with art of field scene from Turkey).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Gluyas Williams (If it had happened today, a few news dispatches that throw new light on history), Webster (The father of the candidate, one man who sees nothing incongruous in the selection of the nominee), Charles Forbell (Hooch : one raisin too many), J. Conacher (Poet and his wife at the seashore),  Angus MacDonall (Jimmie makes a discovery on his birthday and so gives a party (a discarded, nearly empty ice cream barrel and street urchins), Victor C. Anderson (Comrade!  Bum greeting scarecrow).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, Portrait of a young man making an important decision, choosing between two women.
– The Clothes of Yesteryear, a poem by Jennie Betts Hartswick.
– Some current events include : We are in a state of political catalepsy, Calvin Coolidge vs. Roosevelt, Harding and Cox, The America’s cup yacht race and Thomas Lipton, ex-Empress Eugenie.
– Lovely full page color McCallum Silk Hosiery ad with sepia tone art of woman jumping a horse over a hedge, not signed but has to be by M.C. Woodbury.
– And much, much more.