Life Magazine – April 6, 1911 (# 1484) – Easter and Rabbits – Coles Phillips

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Cover : Gorgeous art of young girl feeding carrots to rabbits, “A friend of the family,” wonderful fade-away art by C. Coles Phillips

– EASTER NUMBER (Fatter than normal issue).

– Full page color ads for Belle Mead Sweets (chocolates and bon bons, with lovely artwork of cows grazing and drinking in meandering stream), Jones Speedometer (Uncle Sam settles the speedometer question), Williams’ Shaving stick.

– Full page black and white ads for White automobiles (White efficiency, White well built), Broc electric vehicle company (Luxurious, nice art by the Reeses), Hudson Motor Car Company (with interesting art), Massachusetts Avenue Heights (Real estate for sale in Washington DC), Packard Motor Trucks (with art of John Wanamaker business trucks), Meriden sterling silver (Beverly, La Rochelle, Shirley, Pansy), Peter’s Milk Chocolate (With excellent art of pilot dropping chocolate bars to kids below, A record flight from the Alps to America), Babcock Electric Carriage Company (attractive art), Goodyear tires, E. R. Thomas Motor Car Company, Life magazine (Next issue : Burglar’s Number), Alco cars (American Locomotive Company).

– Winners of Life’s Great Auto Race (Columbia Motor Car Company wins the solid gold cup, King Motor Car Company wins the Booby prize).

– Full page art or cartoon art by Bayard Jones (Man watching best friend finds out that his girl has another man), Orson Lowell (Of course women smoke now, but only cigarettes and as amateurs. Later, with more experience, they will do better. Landscape format),

– Two page centerspread art by Raymond Moreau Crosby (Mrs Gotrox and chorus in her brief engagement in town).

– Some current events include : Resignation of the existing Mexican cabinet, Rebellion in Mexico is a serious matter, Attack by Ulrich on Dr. Booker Washington, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Balfour of Burleigh and Headmaster of Eton (among others) sign protest declaring that “Certain novels issued by publishers of repute are not only unfit for perusal by a modest girl or a right-minded lad, but are likely to do harm to the moral character of all readers.”

– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1911 content – fun!