Life Magazine – December 17, 1908 (# 1364) – Mistletoe – Henry Hutt

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Cover : A single gentleman is sitting under the mistletoe surrounded by a bevy of ladies, he does not look happy, art by Henry Hutt.

– Full page color ad for Pierce Arrow cars, with art by Louis Fancher, 48 Horse Power, 7 passenger, suburban limousine.

– Full page black and white ad for Oldsmobile (with art of car with four of Life’s cherubs : Life in an Oldsmobile).

– Two page centerspread art by Power O’Malley, The investigating committee : Santa Claus to the bar. Is he a real person?

– Some current events include : Mr. Croker’s strong desire to be respectable is a very interesting tribute to virtue, Mr. Andrew Freedman, Rabbi Stephen Wise, Tammany, Judges dine with Croker.

– “For the purely (or impurely) newspaper purposes of interesting the mass of careless readers and selling papers, a lie well cultivated is at least as good as the truth” … wow, sounds like Breitbart in 2017.

– And much, much more.