– MATRIMONIAL NUMBER (much on weddings and marriage).
– Full page color ads for Williams’ Talcum Powder, with Violet or Carnation scents.
– Full page black and white ads for Prudential Insurance Company; Ivory Soap (with art of a young woman and her baby sitting on a huge sofa); H. J. Heinz (stating that Heinz products do NOT contain Benzoate of Soda); Life magazine (showcasing the next five issues).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (very small man explaining to the farmer that he has no idea why the bull ran away … the wife is huge and intimidating); F. T. Richards (May).
– Two page center spread art by William H. Walker (Huge, fat US senator representing the big Trusts stands over a flattened and rumpled Uncle Sam who has fallen on the National bird).
– Some current events include : Revision of tariffs and retribution for the tariff fixers; the entire editor’s column pertains to this and related taxes, crimes, and more.
– Describing Congress : “The best man in the scramble is the man who can get the most for his district, his client, himself or whoever he is working for, without regard for the people at whose cost he gets it.”  Sounds familiar, huh?!
– And many, many more smaller artworks and much humor!

The post Life Magazine – May 27, 1909 (# 1387) – Weddings! appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Jones Speedometer (in black and red, has a motorcycle policeman talking to a motorist about how drivers with the Speedometer no longer get speeding tickets because they know how fast they are going); Hartford Tires; Olds Motor Works (Oldsmobile lighting up a picnic under the full moon).
– Full page black and white ads for Harry S. Houpt Company (all text, Herreshoff, the smart light car of class); Republic Staggard Tread Tires.
– Full page art or cartoon art by William H. Walker (It might have been, various historical characters as each other); illegible (The Crossways, couple in a car in an intersection); Harrison Cady (A sporting note : Flies as spectators and matador-like participants with a couple who are in bed and trying to swat them).
– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell, “Some prefer wild flowers,” The flowers are men and women are selecting a man either from a cultivated flower bed or in the wild.
– Some current events include : “We congratulate the Sugar Trust in being found out in some of its sins” (they had jury-rigged their scales so as to pay less in import duties) – The Trust ended up paying the government $2,135,486.82.
– The editor has a very funny column that includes poking fun at the problems of the rich.
– Half page artwork by J. Conacher “He’s farmin’ fer his health!”, two old farmers hold their sides as they laugh at a newcomer plowing his field.
– And many, many more smaller artworks and much humor!

The post Life Magazine – May 13, 1909 (# 1385) – Day Dreaming Maid appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– SPORTSMAN’S NUMBER (a lot of hunting-related humor).
– Full page color ads for Remington Autoloading Rifle (Going into Africa, Big Game Cartridges, art of locals leading camels loaded with rifles); Fisk Removable Rims (With very cute child-like art of couple in a car, not signed); Baker Electric Vehicles (Aristocrats of Motordom, with art of a young lady and her dog zipping along in the open-topped Baker “Queen Victoria.”
– Half page artwork by W. O. Wilson showing an automobile running into a horse-drawn furniture wagon, with furniture going every which way, “Furniture Carefully Removed.”
– Half page ad for the Caloris Bottle, an insulated thermos for hot or cold that looks surprisingly modern.
– Quarter Page ad for the Astor Trust Company with a list of officers and directors (4 years later John Jacob Astor dies on the Titanic).
– Full page black and white ads for Packard Motor Car Company (with the Packard Eighteen Runabout); Wm. Knabe Pianos;
– Full page art or cartoon art by J. Conacher (Magnanimous : one hunter with hat full of holes, other one blasé about it); Art Young (New York City – is it worth it Art shows crowds, crime, accidents); William H. Walker (Uncle Gulliver and the Harriputians : Uncle Sam tied down by a network of railroad lines);
– Two page centerspread art by the wonderful Harrison Cady, When the Greatest Show on Earth” reaches Rhinoceros Corners.
– Some current events include : The Wheat bull James Patten is not bankrupt yet, he has retreated to a ranch in Colorado 25 miles from a railroad line; Abdul Hamid and troubles in Turkey and the region; Ambassador White runs into trouble when his Protestant daughter wants to marry a French Catholic; Sudden death of publisher Peter Fenelon Collier.
– And many, many more smaller artworks and much humor!

The post Life Magazine – May 6, 1909 (# 1384) – Sportsman’s Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– WOMAN’S NUMBER (lots of reverse humor such as “The Gentlemen’s Home Journal” excerpt).
– Full page color ad for Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company with neat artwork in blue, yellow and green of group touring in the mountains, not signed.
– Full page black and white ads for Pompeian Massage Cream (It Cleans Completely); Ivory Soap (It floats it is so pure, with a tower made of Ivory Soap that looks like the Washington Monument); Life magazine with the five issues of Life listed.
– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell, “While the Carriage waits,” mother, father and three daughters in a line all doing up the gown of the person in front of them.
– And many, many more smaller artworks and much humor!

The post Life Magazine – April 22, 1909 (# 1382) – Woman’s Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– A number of things in this issue pertain to the changing of the President.
– Full page blue and white ad for Williams’ Shaving Stick, Talcum Powder, Jersey Cream soap.
– Full page black and white ads for Life magazine (touts the 6 issues of Life);
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (LENT : Three lovely young ladies waving away the devil).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Broughton, “Uncle’s Rescue,” New President Taft rescuing Uncle Sam from little baby Sherman.
– Some current events include : Life wonders where the anti-women’s suffrage sentiment is coming from;
– This issue has a positively wonderful piece on Women’s Suffrage (Votes for Women) as part of the editor’s column.
– And many, many more smaller artworks and much humor!

The post Life Magazine – February 25, 1909 (# 1374) – New President appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– TRAVEL NUMBER.
– Full page color ad for Peerless Motor Car Company, Comfort, Silence.
– Full page black and white ads for American Motor Car Company (With illustrations of 7 models : Traveler, Tourist, Roadster, Wayfarer, Speedster, Gadabout, and Limousine), Northern Pacific Railway Yellowstone Park Line (with art of Old Faithful Inn).
– Full page art or cartoon art by William H Walker (At the White House, after March 4, 1909, dancing will supersede Tennis),
– Excellent Two page centers pread art by Albert Levering, Bi-wing airplanes terrorizing motorists.
– Some current events include : President Roosevelt’s last fights and agenda in his final six weeks in office, Tennessee Coal & Iron Company being swallowed by the big Steel Corporation, Bill to increase the salary of the President to $100,000; Beach Hargis of Breathitt, Kentucky; Trial of the murderers of Senator Carmack; Choosing a new president for Harvard College.
– Actual news : “Beach Hargis, of Breathitt, Kentucky, after shooting and killing his father, the rapid-firing judge, and being released on heavy bail after one ineffectual trial, was drunk and shooting up the town of Jackson within two hours.”
– And much, much more (ads, humorous artwork, sarcastic commentary).

The post Life Magazine – January 21, 1909 (# 1369) – Travel Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ad for Pierce Arrow automobiles with positively lovely artwork.
– Full page black and white ads Life magazine calendars; Ivory Soap (to be used around the house for general cleaning); Locomobile (the “30”); George Barrie & sons, publisher (Honore de Balzac, The Gigantesque).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (Lady despairing that while her dog is amazing he can’t do up the back of her gown and no one else is available); Arthur Young (To the defenders of tipping).
– Popular birthdays, including Orson Lowell.
– The Husbands’ Correspondence Bureau (a humorous kind of Ann Landers column).
– Two page centerspread art by Balfour-Ker, “Find the man who stole a million,” the artwork shows a chain gang using picks, a prison guard, and a rich man in a car with a chauffeur.
– Some current events include : The Catholic Union and Times of Buffalo is disparaging Life magazine; Shooting of Ferrer; Catholic church in Spain; Dr. Cook and his supposed exploits (summit of McKinley, north pole) as supported by the Springfield Republican.
– And much, much more humor, art, and sarcastic commentary!  So NEAT!

The post Life magazine – December 16, 1909 (# 1416) – Santa Doesn’t Exist? appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– MERRY X-MAS LIFE (an extremely thick issue packed with great Christmas holiday content!!)
– Full page color ads for Kranich & Bach Piano (bright yellow), Perrier sparkling table water (with French flag), White Rock Table water (with gorgeous art of topless nymph); Rubberset Shaving Brushes; Pierce Arrow cars (in front of the Library of Columbia University, art by Louis Fancher); Eastman Kodak (with photo of couple looking at travel photo album).
– Lots and lots of smaller car and automobile-related ads!!!
– This issue also had a number of smaller Piano ads … they must have been the IN THING.
– Letters to Santa Claus, delivered by James S. Metcalfe (tongue in cheek).
– General Prosperity  a genuine Christmas Story, with a real moral to it.
– Curious half page ad for Motor Print magazine dedicated to cars and motoring.
– Half page ad for Outing magazine featuring Harry Whitney back from a months long musk ox hunt on Ellesmere Island.
– Full page black and white ads for Baldwin Piano, E. R. Thomas Motor Company (with photo of the new Thomas 6-40 Long Stroke Flyer); Columbus Buggy Company (with Model 6B – five passenger family car); Elmore Manufacturing Company (with the Elmore model 36 and model 46 touring cars); Life magazine (ad for the next issue, touting illustration that will showcase a bunch of the contributors to Life); Prudential insurance; Pond’s extract family remedy  (2Neat suspects that is was composed primarily of alcohol); Chickering Pianos; Truffault-Hartford shock absorbers; Locomobile cars (with a photo of the “30”);
– Full page art or cartoon art by Otto Lang (Santa Claus), Orson Lowell (Cousin from the west encouraging a Widow to send her daughters to the man-heavy mining towns to get married … “Before the train slowed down all three would be engaged.”); F. T. Richards (November); Orson Lowell (Santa Claus from various points of view),
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Life invites some old friends to dinner.”  The savvy viewer will recognize the people from other artworks of C. D. Gibson.
– Quarter page ad for the Savage automatic handgun, as a Christmas present.
– One third page ad for the Iver Johnson revolver handgun, also as a Christmas present.
– And much, much more humor, art, and sarcastic commentary!  So NEAT!

The post Life Magazine – December 2, 1909 (# 1414) – HUGE, AMAZING Christmas issue!! appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Fisk Removable Rim (with the Fisk bolted-on tire, includes reproductions of three color posters available to the public), Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes (What’s that I hear?, with toddler holding ears).
– Full page black and white ads for Haynes Automobile Company ($1,000 less – Or $500 more), Prudential insurance, Hudson Motor Car Company (Hudson Twenty $900, Strong – Speedy – Roomy – Stylish).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (Assuring : rich heiress reassuring titled suitor).
–  Half page artwork by Angus MacDonall, “Getting Even,” Little girl sticking her tongue out at a car driver who slammed on his brakes as the traffic cop directed him to wait.
– Two page centerspread art by Angus MacDonall, “The friend who never fails,”  dog following his family down the road as they try to take a motor trip without him.
– Some current events include : Ex-Police Commissioner Bingham (fired by the current mayor) may run for Mayor of New York, Mr. Otto Bannard is also a candidate, as is William Williams; Tammany hall; Big agriculture getting a tax put on their produce (pineapples, lemons, citrus) so they can make a bigger profit; “Let a few of us get rich by taxing all the rest”; Dr. Joseph Cochran at the Presbyterian General Assembly in Denver said that State Universities are godless.
– The Husbands’ Correspondence Bureau (a humorous kind of Ann Landers column).
– Charming quarter page artwork by Denison, “High Life : the Robinsons moved in before the apartment was really finished,” they are eating a meal while sitting on a high rise girder!
– Who’s Who on Olympus by John Kendrick Bangs : Vulcan and Mercury.
– And much, much more humor, art, and sarcastic commentary!  So NEAT!

The post Life Magazine – July 22, 1909 (# 1395) – Bathing Beauty appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

• This issue has a major publication error! The publishers forgot to put the normal date and masthead on the top of the cover!
• Full page ad for Pierce Cars (They are called Pierce Great Arrow Cars, this is prior to the company name Pierce-Arrow).
• Half page artwork by Bayard Jones, father said he had remargined so often that he had better buy you outright.
• The winning caption in the contest, Charles Dana Gibson artwork of old man serenading young woman in canoe.
• Full page art or cartoon art by F. T. Richards (February), F. W. Read (At the Amateur theatricals … will my husband object to your making love to me?)
• Two page centerspread art by James Montgomery Flagg, The Brigands, holding up Uncle Sam.
• Some current events include : Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes declined the rectorship of St. Paul’s School at Concord, St. Paul’s doesn’t allow its boys to read LIFE (editor says this is probably wise).
• And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
• And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1905 content – fun!

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