Life Magazine – March 12, 1925 (# 2210) – St. Patrick’s Day

– SAINT PATRICK’S NUMBER (Much on Irish, St. Patrick’s Day, more).
– Wonderful full page color Fisk Tire Company ad with man sleeping in chair while listening to radio, art by Paul Hesse.
– Interesting full page Parker Duofold Pen ad for four train dispatchers, photo.
– Full page Packard Motor Car Company ad, with art by Frank Quail showing airplane and Captain Lowell H. Smith and Lt. Leslie P. Arnold each getting a free car, round the world fliers.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Forbell (Saint Patrick’s Day in the Morning After), Harrison Cady (The Emerald Isle : if all the people who tell Pat-and-Mike stories and sing “Mother Machree” were really Irishmen), C. H. Sykes (And stay out of sight till he’s gone!), P. L. Crosby (Skippy, what a damn fool I was to lend him me skates!),
– Two page centerspread art by Ellison Hoover “An impression of Dublin, by one who has never been there.”
– Some current events include : Congress has raised it’s own pay but not that of Ambassadors or Federal Judges, Kipling speaks of Europe being shaky, Italians moving into France to take agricultural jobs, New York Legislature elects Regents of the University of the State of New York, Mrs. Danforth of Rochester, Welcome to the magazine New Yorker!
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1925 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!