Life Magazine – September 9, 1920 (# 1975) – Davy Jones and Mermaid

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Cover : Davy Jones (dead pirate) and a mermaid are toasting each other at Davy’s locker on the sea bottom, “Dead men tell no tales,” art by Rea Irvin.

– Full page color ads for Estey Organ company (The dance of death, signed but illegible Lea…??), Williams Shaving stick (art by Farmer, face in cloud, first name illegible).

– Full page black and white ads for Templar Motors Company (The superfine small car), Goodrich silvertown cord tires, Weed Tire chains (art with an interesting angle), Packard Motor Car Company (art by Brubaker, How many buyers can judge value?), Franklin Automobile Company, Hotel Pennsylvania (opposite Pennsylvania terminal in New York), Studebaker cars (Special-six, photo with all women), Palmolive shaving cream, Camel cigarettes.

– Full page art or cartoon art by H. T. Webster (Land of equal opportunities … might have been President if born across the Ohio state line), Gluyas Williams (Senator Sounder averts the paper shortage), Popini (Man trying to describe a woman’s outfit), Louis Raemaekers (Feudalism and Bolshevism both want to set Russia free), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days : evicting ye tenants).

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, Satisfactory result of a correspondence course in personality and charm development, older lady with all the men around her).

– Some current events include : Presidential campaign, Victory of the Poles, Wlodawa on the Bug, Suffrage Amendment, Lady Nancy Astor supports having women in Embassies.

– And so much more!  1920 Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!