Life Magazine – April 9, 1925 (# 2214) – Charles Dana Gibson – Easter

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Cover : Pious old woman reading bible in church, while young woman next to her looks into her compact, “Worship,” art by Charles Dana Gibson.

– EASTER NUMBER.
– Full page color Fisk Tires ad, Time to re-tire, with toddler sleeping inside tire circle, art by Maud Tousey Fangel.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Fred Mizen (Marmon car ad), Albert Frueh (Modern Mythology), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde dayes, Ye Apryl Foole), Fred G. Cooper (Behold the agile angleworm), Harrison Cady (Hurrah! The first seed is up)
– Very interesting one third page artwork by Strothmann showing news reporter blowing up a big balloon labeled Ku Klux Klan, “You made me what I am today, I hope you’re satisfied.”
– Two page centerspread art by Victor C. Anderson, getting the car out of the shed and sprucing it up, “Spring.”
– Some current events include : Mr. Schepp of the dried coconut empire is donating two and a half millions to a foundation to improve young boys, Tex Rickard has been fined heavily and faces imprisonment for the illegal transportation of fight films, Bricklayers and plasterers conduct private wars in the building trades to the ruin of contractors and the destruction of builders, Various people predict war within ten years.
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1925 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!