Life Magazine – October 24, 1912 (# 1565) – Bull Moose Number

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Cover : Moose, Teddy Roosevelt, and political campaign theme, art by William H. Walker.

– BULL MOOSE NUMBER.

– Full page COLOR ads for Fatima Turkish cigarettes (with art of fox hunting), Stevens-Duryea Company (excellent art of people motoring with snow-capped volcano in the background, not signed)

– Full page ads for Locomobile automobiles, Packard Motor cars, Abbott-Detroit electric self-starters for cars, Goodyear tires (two pages), Jackson Dultanic automobile, Garfield Six automobile (with nice art by R. F. S.), American Motors company.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Angus MacDonall (landscape format : I have not come for your money (grim reaper)), Harry Grant Dart (World series : may we all live to see it),

– Excellent pair of half page artworks by Harrison Cady : Barbarism vs. Civilization.

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “The reason dinner was late,” housemaid (?) sketching the portrait of the master of the house.

– Some current events include : Election, Democrats expected to win and this is good, War in Montenegro, Baseball championship between Red Sox and Giants, School board of Cedar Grove New Jersey (Canadian student won’t pledge allegiance to the American flag – duh!), What will the automobile situation be like in 20 years?

– “Not much but the shouting remains of the campaign except possibilites of indiscretion.”

– And much, much more.