– Full page mildly colored ad for Olds Motor Works, Oldsmobile, Exhilaration of speed.
– Full page art or cartoon art by F. T. Richards (December), Charles J. Budd (The call of the wild, motorist stuck in snow trying to flag down man with horse.).
– Half page artwork by A. D. Blashfield showing dogs operating on gagged human, “Every dog should have his day,” part of the anti-vivisection movement.
– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell, really nice spread of a row of people, each reading the next paper, “Why is a neighbor’s paper always more attractive than your own?”
– Some current events include : President speaks about the Brownsville soldiers (a case of racial injustice against Black troops); Panama Canal purchase; Alleged offenses of Mr. Joseph Pulitzer; Misbehaving Newspapers.
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – December 31, 1908 (# 1366) – Brownsville Soldiers appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ad for Southern Pacific Sunset Route, railroad trip, California in mid-winter.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harrison Cady (A few Christmas Capers we all know)
– Two page centerspread art by C. Coles Philips, Expectant wife watching her husband open the gift of an expensive fur coat, “… promised each other faithfully not to do anything in the way of presents this year, because – well, frankly, Jack simply can’t afford it.”
– Some current events include : “The President has been finding fault again with a newspaper”; Panama Canal; Mr. Foulke is president of the American Woman Suffrage Association.
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – December 24, 1908 (# 1365) – Christmas appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ad for Stoddard-Dayton Motor Car Company, Model 9F. 45 HP, $2500.
– Full page black and white ads for Packard Motor Car Company (Packard “Thirty” – looks like an open air bus with a canopy top), American Vacuum Cleaner Company with good art, Chickering Pianos, Gillette safety razor.
– Curious half page ad for Lowney’s chocolates, chosen as the National Candy by the US government.
– Nice 2/3 page ad for the California Limited, Santa Fe railroad, art by Newman, possibly C E H Newman.
– Interesting 3 page long story (fiction, I think) about a jewel thief “When money was tight” by Spot Cash.
– Cool 2/3 page ad for Shasta-Northern Pacific route, Northern Pacific railroad, with photo of huge log on two railroad cars.
– Really odd poem by Rupert Hughes about not getting fat, “I beg you to bant.”
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harrison Cady, “The original Thanksgiving dinner in old Plymouth,” bears eating the spread as pilgrims cling up in a tree.
– Two page centerspread art by John A. Williams, “The lull before the storm,” man and wife timidly preparing to knock on kitchen door, behind which lies chaos and a drunken cook.
– Some current events include : This Life should reach you on Election day; Uncle Joe Cannon of Illinois; Methodist Church and the anti-rum bill; Charles Eliot Norton is dead.

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

The post Life Magazine – November 5, 1908 (# 1358) – Upset Cook appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Pierce Arrow Enclosed Cars (except for the poor driver!, art by Williams), Baker Electric vehicles (showing five different cars), Peerless Motor Cars (Silence Comfort).
– Half page ad for Air-tight steel Tank Company, basically a small tank to store gasoline underground at your own house, your own gas station.
– Another great half page ad for Pabst Extract, Ward off the ailments of old age by reinvigorating the body.
– Full page black and white ads for Lord & Taylor for Onyx Hosiery, Chickering Pianos, Ford Motor Company (Five passenger touring car).
– Full page art or cartoon art by F. T. Richards (September).
– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell, “Love is also deaf,” Whole room of people covering their ears due to a bad piano player except for the lovey young couple standing near the piano.
– Photo of Petrolum V. Nasby, Mark Twain and Josh Billings in their earlier years, American Humorists.
– Some current events include : Does anyone read all the speeches printed in the newspapers?; The Renomination of Governor Hughes; Democratic New York State Convention.
– And much more 1908   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

The post Life Magazine – October 1, 1908 (# 1353) – Neat Car ads appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page black and white ad for Pears soap with cool art of a light house, “The beacon light to a good complexion.”
– Super half page art by Orson Lowell, Man faking a runaway horse as his girl clings to him in the carriage, “With care I can keep him at it for five miles.”
– Full page art or cartoon art by F. T. Richards (July).
– Neat photo from Life’s Fresh Air Camp : Girls fixing their hair in front of a little mirror affixed to a tree before going in to lunch.
– SUPER Two page centerspread art by Nuttall, old fisherman commenting on lovey writing in the sand, “Won’t be nothin’ left o’ them things after the fust storm.”
– Quarter page ad with art for the Royal Muskoka Hotel on Lake Rosseau in Canada.
– Some current events include : Mr. William Abbott and his applauded efforts to enforce the “no smoking” rules in street cars; Candidate Taft is trying to learn how to laugh without growing fat; Democratic newspapers and prosperity during elections; More on the suspended rowers from Harvard.
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!

Want More Click —> Sweetheart Humor    and     Skeptic on Valentine’s Day, 1908 LIFE magazine.

The post Life Magazine – July 30, 1908 (# 1344) – Written in the Sand appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page black and white ad for Packard Motor Cars (1909 Packard “thirty” touring car), Chickering pianos, Williams’ Shaving (with color).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (LIFE permanent weather bulletin, an iceman in hell), F. T. Richards (June), Harrison Cady (The fourth in our village … building fire), Nesbitt Benson (Bugbears : your athletic friend with the hearty handshake).
– Excellent half page ad for Pabst Extract, “Encourage listless convalescence on to rapid recovery.”
– Quarter page Remington Autoloading Shot Gun ad, loads itself.
– Two page centerspread art by William H. Walker (Wall Street’s tribute to the father of his country).
– Some current events include : Taft got the nomination; Mr. Sherman is a well-nourished man (candidate for Vice President); A dreadful tragedy … two Harvard crewers (rowers) were suspended after being caught taking a book out of the reference library.
– Photograph of Reverend Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
– Large photo of all the kids at Life’s Fresh Air Camp cheering.
– Full page poem by Thomas L. Masson, The Quest of the Golden Girl.
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
– And much more 1908   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

The post Life Magazine – July 2, 1908 (# 1340) – Harriet Beecher Stowe appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– 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.

The post Life Magazine – December 17, 1908 (# 1364) – Mistletoe – Henry Hutt appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Half page artwork by Orson Lowell, “Orchids as the insignia of wealth and social standing,” everyone including the dog is wearing an orchid.

– Very unusual Pears’ Soap ad, full page black and white with naked toddler sitting on shore with back to viewer, ad words are written on his back.

– Full page art or cartoon art by C. Allan Gilbert (most of a page, Mistle toe picture puzzle, get the right people together).

– Two page centerspread art by William B. King (Their Hopes, mother dreaming of church and heaven, boy dreaming of pirates).

– Some current events include : Census Bulletin 96 came out just in time to catch the Christmas trade (statistics of marriage and divorce from 1887-1906), People who want divorces migrating to states where the facilities for getting them abound, Cardinal Gibbons, Mr. Root acts as legal adviser to the Metropolitan Street Railway malefactors.

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

The post Life Magazine – December 10, 1908 (# 1363) – Crazy Huge Hat appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– CHRISTMAS NUMBER (Much fatter issue than other 1908 issues).

– Full page color ad for Eastman Kodak (with man sitting in front of fire and admiring his vacation photo album).

– Full page black and white ads for Packard “eighteen” 1909 Town Car (Limousine version shown), Prudential Life Insurance, Rambler cars (Nice art, Model Forty-Four, 34 H.P. $2250, with offset crank shaft), Welch’s Grape Juice (with art by CH or GH), Baldwin Pianos, Chickering Pianos, American Vacuum Clean Company (with art), Northern Pacific railroad (Yellowstone Park Line with photos, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition), Gibson’s Rye Whiskey (with art by RFA), Gillette Safety Razor.

– Full page art or cartoon art by J. R. Shaver (Little girl confronting Santa Claus, “No, I don’t believe in you any more, but you may leave the things”), Arthur T. Merrick (Castles in the air), C. J. Taylor (non-standard shape, If he had married her : the revery of a bachelor over his old love letters … he is happy to be a bachelor!), unsigned (Famous art that might have been different if painted today, such as the Mona Lisa in an advertisement),

– Two page centerspread art by William Balfour-Ker (His Christmas Dream, a bride).

– Some current events include : William Taft, Expectation of prosperity, Merry Christmas to all!

– Funny three-panel artwork by Ted of a painted sliding door where the ad changes as the door is opened, the Reverend is now offering beer on ice by the case.

– “It is easy to rise, but hard to come down, in the scale of living. If we are now comfortably nourished on three daily meals and afternoon tea, let’s not blunder immediately into the mistake of requiring five. If we find ourselves doing well with somewhat less rum, and older raiment than we used to need, let us value and preserve those modifications of our necessities.”

– And much more 1908   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool! … this is a fat issue.

The post Life Magazine – December 3, 1908 (# 1362) – Christmas – Coles Phillips appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Baker Electric Vehicles (Lovely pastel art of ladies getting into Baker Four Passenger Coupe, the Aristocrats of Motordom), Williams’ toiletries.

– Full page black and white ads for American Motor Car Company (with art of six different cars with prices), Prudential Life Insurance.

– Full page art or cartoon art by James Montgomery Flagg (All in the same boat).

– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell, Ladies (all holding up the bottoms of their skirts for ease of movement) are gathered at a shop window looking at a new fashion that has a slit skirt (showing an ankle), The immodesty of the sheath skirt is repellant to American Women.

– Half page artwork of fanciful flying machine / airplane by J. Conacher with humorous commentary by the pessimist.

– Some current events include : The Democratic party is demoralized by the results of the recent election, Ambassador Whitelaw Reid, President Eliot of Harvard resigns, President Roosevelt is an editor of the Outlook.

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – November 19, 1908 (# 1360) – New Sheath Skirt appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.