Life Magazine – August 6, 1908 (# 1345) – Swimming!

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Cover : Woman in swimming costume on beach, exulting in Life and preparing to swim, art by Henry Hutt.

– Full page color ad for Mennen’s Borated Talcum toilet powder, The queen of the surf.

– Full page black and white ad for Packard Motor Car Company (with a Packard Thirty with close-coupled body).

– Quarter page travel ad for Muskoka Lakes, Canada, with lady in swimming costume and Royal Muskoka Hotel on Lake Rosseau.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Harrison Cady (from the insect point of view, a man sticks his umbrella through a hornet’s nest and is driven off), Harry Grant Dart (The power of the press).

– Two page centerspread art by Harry Grant Dart, “Words, not deeds,” Teddy Roosevelt’s travels.

– Some current events include : Political candidates, Three Federal judges agree that Judge Landis did not give a fair trail to the Standard Oil Company and that the 29 million dollar fine was improperly imposed, Bishop Potter, Debate over the best kind of Navy.

– Half page photos of girls swimming in the pond at Life’s Fresh Air Farm.

– Newport as seen by a foreigner, by P. Dormer Chesterfield.

– And much more 1908   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!