– JOSEPHUS DANIELS NUMBER (unpopular Secretary of the Navy).

– Full page color ads for Blue Boar rough cut tobacco, Prince Albert tobacco, Williams’ Shaving soaps.

– Full page black and white ads for Liberty Motor Car (with art showing the operation of the emergency brake), Perrier table water, American Chain Company (Take a Chance … He did, art by Yook), Franco-American Soups (canned Mock Turtle soup), Mitchell cars (1917 Smart Cars), Harmony blended pipe tobacco.

– Half page ad for the Hollenden hotel in Cleveland with art of the building.

– Full page art or cartoon art by William H. Walker (two pages, The general staff of the United States Navy, according to Josephus), Harrison Cady (landscape format, Marooned, if the Navy had its way), Charles Dana Gibson (You never compliment me any more on my appearance), Harry Grant Dart (I resign).

– Small photo of fatherless French Marguerite Marcq (Baby 58) and her mother.

– Two page COLOR centerspread art by Victor C. Anderson (The auction sale – old friends must part, Old man gently holding his old horse as it is auctioned off), sad but great art.

– Some current events include : Action of the government on the railroad strike, Interstate Commerce Commission, Judge Hughes, Greece is following Roumania (Romania) into the Allies’ fold, Flight of Hohenzollerns and their tools from their thrones.

– Regarding the railroad strike, “The representatives of 400,000 well-paid men took the country by the throat and shook it until Congress bribed them to let go.”

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

The post Life Magazine – September 14, 1916 (# 1768) – Secretary of Navy Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Prince Albert tobacco, Gordon Dry Gin, Columbia Grafonola.

– Full page black and white ads for Dodge Brothers Cars (a circle that never stops growing), Velie Motor Vehicle Company (nice art of Polo game with a 1917 Velie Biltwel Six, aigned with a G in a circle), American Chain Company (Weed anti-skid chains, Criminal negligence, killed a child), Du Pont Fabrikoid Company (Rayntite car topping material), United States Rubber Company (two pages, with small labeled depictions of all the different factories), Kelly-Springfield tires.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Birch (2/3 page, How do you suppose old Plimrock came to marry a girl only nineteen?), A. D. Blashfield (A few of this year’s automobile models), Charles Dana Gibson (Decorations, two German officers well-laden with medals sneaking behind a soldier with many grievous wounds.), F. T. Richards (July).

– Fatherless French child Marcel Boudenet (Baby 90) of 11 Rue Desprez, Paris.

– Two page centerspread art by Ellison Hoover, “The People’s Choice,” Firing squad of the US voting public shooting Congress.

– Some current events include : The Great War enters its third year still going strong and with no end in sight, Kaiser William II, Belgium made her foolhardy objection to being a road, France scrambled to arms, Dr. Walter Rauschenbusch of the German branch of the Baptist Theological Seminary in Rochester.

– “It will be impossible to get up any effectual fright about Russian domination until the fear of German domination is thoroughly allayed.”

– Cute photo of two little kids standing in the Sunshine at Life’s fresh air camp.

– Lovely half page artwork of lonely rich lady sitting in the grounds of her beautiful home at night, “To exchange : an Eden for an Adam.”

– And much more 1916   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

The post Life Magazine – August 3, 1916 (# 1762) – Sailors with Foreign Ladies appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Willys Knight limousine (great art by Myron Perley), Gordon Dry Gin (art of sailboats and ferry in motion, not signed), Cole Motor Cars (lovely art of dark blue open car with two greyhound dogs (probably) and crème colored building behind, not signed), Richmond cigarettes, Pall Mall cigarettes (with art of Leo Theimer of Hotel St. Regis).
– Full page ads for Westinghouse starting, lighting and ignition equipment (with photo of foot on starter), Life magazine subscription, Locomobile closed cars, Goodyear Tires, Pathfinder cars.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Birch (mothers discussing accomplishments that girls need before they can get married), Harry Grant Dart (an inducement, pertaining to prohibition and politics), Charles Dana Gibson (page and a half : Her dance.  Older lady interrupting young man as he talking with young woman), Rea Irvin (Where they spent the summer).
– Two page centerspread art by William Balfour-Ker, The Supreme General Staff, the Devil, Death and a Joker looking down on a battlefield.
– Some current events include : Mr. Hughes now describes himself as a friend of labor, Gifford Pinchot has come out against Wilson, Progressiveness is a very different thing from progress.
– “The rich, as representatives of the vested interests, are always and instinctively obstacles to political progress. They are beneficiaries of the existing order and don’t want it all mussed up.”  Still true 100 years later!!!
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – September 21, 1916 (# 1769) – Red Cross Nurse as Art appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Murad cigarettes (Gorgeous art of female dancer in butterfly costume with more butterflies on backdrop, Everywhere, Why?, not signed – who knows this artist?), Reo Motor Car company (two pages, green), Great White Fleet (Call of the Caribbean, with gull and parrot, not signed).
– Full page ads for Winton Company cars, Studebaker (all text), Mitchell cars, Everybody’s Magazine.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harrison Cady (two pages : Bread lines in Europe (poor people in line at soup kitchen) and America (rich people in line at restaurant), landscape format), Paul Reilly (Advertisements you have never seen).
– Small photos of French baby 107 Roger Cazaneuve, Baby 152 Andre Menetre and older brother.
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Every man to his taste,” young man gazing at young lady in library while old man looks at antique vase.
– Some current events include : Railroad strikes, Adamson bill, It will be quite a change to have railroad strikes forbidden by law.
– “In spite of all Mr. Wilson’s mistakes, the sum of his achievements is such as to make one wonder why anyone who owns less than three automobiles should vote for Hughes.”
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – September 28, 1916 (# 1770) – Dog Stealing Baseball appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Milo cigarettes (Swimming Pool Training, manly mostly-nude men, art by Otho Cushing), Cole Motor Cars (OMG, lovely, people and car reflecting in a pool.  Not signed – who knows this artist?), McCallum Silk Hosiery (Great sepia tone art by Marjorie C. Woodbury, woman diving off cliff).
– Full page ads for Dann Shock Absorbers, Pathfinder Company cars, Studebaker cars, Mitchell-Lewis Motor company cars (art by T. C. Weld).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Robert L. Dickey (Say, Mex! Don’t start anything you can’t finish … line of bandaged-up dogs facing unscathed Chihuahua dog heavily armed), Charles Forbell (if we permitted ourselves to be governed by the impulse of the moment, misbehaving in the street), Charles Dana Gibson (A tragic moment for Smyth (who married for a home) …), C. A. Voight (The theorist, swimming lessons, stuck in mud).
– Still apt: Family getting ready to go on car trip, commenting on the fine weather, father sees only one cloud, the Mortgage hanging over the house, art by Will Vawter.
– Two page centerspread art by William H. Walker, Rich congressmen laughing over Pork bills, while poor military drags along, “Where the money goes.”
– Small photos of French Baby 71 Raymonde Allanic and sister Suzanne, Baby 72 Lucien Bailles.
– Some current events include : Arrival of the big German submarine in Baltimore, Tug named after Thomas F. Timmins of Pearl Street, Guarding the border with Mexico.
– “Meanwhile, the war-map which Chancellor Hollweg lately suggested as a basis of peace negotiations is not so flattering to German aspirations as it was.”
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – July 27, 1916 (# 1761) – Boys Playing Sailor appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page COLOR ads for Willys-Knight Overland car (nice art of rainy scene), Pal Mall cigarettes.

– Full page ads for Chalmers Motor Company (two pages, with color, nice car), Fisk non-skid tires, Locomobile motor cars, BVD underwear (2/3 page : art by David Robinson), United States Tire company.

– Very nice Half page ad for Colt guns with policemen catching robbers, The Policeman’s story about breaking up a gang armed with “sleep producers (black jacks).”

– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (the charmer), Charles Jay Budd (pair of 2/3 page artworks : is it wise to change This into This?), Charles Forbell (and their steamer leaves in twenty minutes),

– Two page centerspread art by Balfour-Ker (vertical format : woman waving a handkerchief from high balcony at man in street, “Is love blind?”

– Some current events include : Republicans did not nominate Henry Ford, choosing Justice Hughes instead, Kitchener died for England.

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – June 22, 1916 (# 1756) – Uncle Sam Wants Peace appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – November 2, 1916 (# 1775) – Honorable Dog. appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for The Great White Fleet (The call of the Caribbean, with art including Toucans), Fatima cigarettes (nice ad in mostly blue and white).
– Some of the other full page ads : White Company cars (with nice art by Teale, includes artist’s glyph that looks like crossed angle irons), Franco-American soups, The Hollenden hotel in Cleveland (half page, includes photo of the Red Room).
– Advertisements you have never seen, such as Shakemupp Shock-absorbers.
– Full page art or cartoon art by G. B. Inwood (Bachelors’ job in Hades : pushing baby carriage full of devil babies up a never ending hill).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, A review of the summer campaign, young lady day-dreaming about all her conquests.
– Small photo of Andre Colin, baby number 27, his father and his widowed mother  (aid to war orphans).
– Some current events include : A large proportion of the voters are trying to forgive themselves for voting as they did, There were very persuasive reasons against voting for either candidate (Wilson and Hughes), Bandits in Mexico.
– “There probably never was a presidential election in this country in which so many voters voted for a man they didn’t want.”
– And so much more!  Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!

The post Life Magazine – November 9, 1916 (# 1776) – Death of Man with Harem appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – November 16, 1916 (# 1777) – Cory Kilvert – Sick Europe appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Willys Knight Touring Sedan (with nice art by Herbert Andrew Paus, with woman driving), Cole Motor Car company (With Excellent winter scene art with blue car, toboggan and skis), Woodbury’s soap (art of lady looking in mirror, Examine your skin closely tonight, signed but not quite legible, last name ends in CHER, first name ends in Y).
– Some of the other full page ads : Barley Motor Car Company (The Roamer, with art), John Walker Red Label whiskey (With art by Leo Cheney), Locomobile Car company (with art), Good Year tires (with nice art of New York’s fifth avenue at Hotel Plaza, art by R.C.).
– Full page art or cartoon art by William H. Walker (Heard at the club), Charles A. Voiht (The Theorist : Singing), Charles Dana Gibson (Time 3am : Young Soapley to his chaperon, Just one more dance?).
– Letters from a Japanese Schoolboy : the Togo currency system, by Hashimura Togo.
– Two page centerspread art by Calvert, “Reported Missing,” wrecked framework of dirigible with skeletons hanging from it, lost in space.
– Small photos of war orphans Simone Pottier (# 319), Marcel Plichon (#318), Marie Dinville (# 359), and Louis Vinges (#325).
– Some current events include : A very close election, Wilson won.
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – November 23, 1916 (# 1778) – Doubts of Novice Nun appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.