Life Magazine – April 13, 1911 (# 1485) – Burglar’s Number

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Cover : Life’s cherub is (cutely) holding up a girl in her bedroom, art by James Montgomery Flagg.

– BURGLAR’S NUMBER (much on different kinds of thievery).

– Lots of car ads in the 1911 issues.

– Full page color ad for Peerless Motor Car Company (with nice art at the College of the City of New York).

– Full page black and white ads for United States Tires, Franklin Automobile company, Standard Oil company (Polarine oil), Gorham wedding silver,

– Full page art or cartoon art by Westerman (Different kinds of burglars), Orson Lowell (2/3 page, Passing of Hubby’s Den), unsigned (Interrupted : Grim reaper comes for burglar in the middle of looting a safe), Vogue (Spring fashions), Life magazine (next issue : Dog number), , Wyckoff Church & Partridge trucks (with art of Collier’s and The Housekeeper truck).

– Two page centerspread art by C. Clyde Squires, Robbers : wholesale and retail, rich man sleeps as burglar enters the room.

– Some current events include : The horror of the Shirt Waist Factory fire (Triangle Shirtwaist fire, 146 workers died, most ages 16-23), Deep disgust of the burning of the New York State Library at Albany and a considerable fraction of the Capitol that contained it, Realization that many factories are death traps, Voting in Milwaukee, Oregon has an extraordinarily fine set of new political improvements.

– Impressive half page artwork by W. O. Wilson, When their terms expire, No one greets the common thief when he is released from prison, All kinds of rich men happily greet the dishonest banker when he is released.

– What would we do without our burglars? No national institution is more necessary. Not only are whole families supported by this honorable calling, but likewise entire insurance companies.”

–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1911 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!