Life Magazine – September 1, 1910 (# 1453) – C. Coles Phillips – Sportsmen Number

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Cover : Lovely lady fencer holding her foil pensively and thinking of love, art by the great C. Coles Phillips.

– SPORTSMAN’S NUMBER.

– Full page COLOR ads for Pierce-Arrow motor cars (with nice art by Gil Spear of bellboy accepting a tip), Stearns cars (nice art by Ray Parmelee), Peerless Motor Car company (excellent sunset art, not signed).

– Full page ads for The White Company limousine, Hartford Suspension Company (Truffault-Hartford shock absorber), Mental subscriptions to Life, Armour toilet soap, Adler Rochester clothes (The Rook of Mens fashions, art looks like Leyendecker, but not signed), Grand Rapids furniture company (art by F. J. K.), Baldwin Player Piano (cute art of room of dancing children), Woman’s Fashion Number of Life.

– Great half page ad for Pabst Extract, extolling the vigor of barley malt and hops, the best tonic.

– How to hunt the Fox, by Bill Nye.

– Cute little cartoon by Hal Fowler, The extent of the loss, little boy showing the size of the fish that got away.

– Quarter page ad for the Correja Motor car company, Correja speed runabout.

– Full page art or cartoon art by F. T. Richards (August), Life’s infallible fortune teller, Herbert Johnson (When polo becomes a college game).

– Two page centerspread art by William L. Jacobs, “Wiping out old scores,” automobile racing by horse carriage.

– Some current events include : Proportion of unofficial announcement to resignation has been excessive, Plank is about to be walked by Ballinger, Cannon, Aldrich, Wickersham and Knox, Manly Republican disdain of the political authority of Roosevelt, Death of Florence Nightingale.

– And much more 1910   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!