Life Magazine – September 22, 1921 (# 2029) – Wall Street, Wyeth

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Cover : Pirates and swashbuckling leader glaring at YOU, “Stand and deliver,” art by the accomplished NC Wyeth = Newell Convers Wyeth.
– WALL STREET NUMBER (this is rather ANTI-Wall Street).
– Full page color ads for Simmons beds, Pierce-Arrow cars (portrait by A. E. Northup, looks like a faintly colorized photo).
– Full page black and white ads for Phoenix hosiery (on trim ankles the luster of silk), Wills Sainte Claire (The molybdenum Car, C. H. Wills of Marysville, Michigan).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (The beginner, A young man is teaching a comely young woman how to golf), Rea Irvin (The tale of the irascible merchant and the heroic office boy), Charles Forbell (The Anglers, Fat men in suits are sitting on the portico of the Stock Exchange and casting fishing lines down into the crowd on the street to catch the unwary), F. G. Cooper (The adventures of Solomon Grundy), Paul Stahr (Tell me not in mournful numbers, man explaining the current stock prices)
– Two page centerspread art by Victor C. Anderson, “Disturbing the Peace,” a prospective train passenger comes to a railroad station where the station master is napping, the tracks are overgrown with a cow laying in them and chickens running around.
– Some current events include : There is only feeble confidence anywhere in the governmental and economic bases on which rests the apparatus of current life, Stocks had a rise out of the encouraging badness of the cotton crop, Very many important concerns (including most of the railroads) are living partly on their savings or their credit, The New York World is reporting on a dangerous organization named the Ku Klux Klan, Sinn Fein in Ireland, Judge Landis is condemned for being a baseball judge while receiving a salary as a Federal Judge.
– “People wonder how long the money that they have been used to living on will be forthcoming, and those who have invested funds, even in the most conservative securities, wish they had them in something less liable to suffer from bad business.”
– Cute half page comic artwork by G. Burr Inwood, a motorist who has just had an accident is berating the motorcycle cop, “A fine traffic cop you are! If you’d arrested me for speedin’, like you should, I wouldn’t a run into that poor fella.”
– And much, much more.