Life Magazine – April 1, 1909 (# 1379) – Easter

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Cover : Life’s cherub is inviting the devil back now that Lent (a period of repentance) is over, art by Orson Lowell.

– EASTER NUMBER (a FAT issue, much on the size of Easter hats).
– Full page color ad for Williams’ Shaving Stick with Williams’ Jersey Cream toilet soap and Williams’ Talcum Powder.
– Half page ad with art for Pabst Extract, “Transform Dyspepsia’s gnawing cravings into honest, healthy hunger.”
– Full page black and white ads for Packard Motor Car Company (1909 Packard “thirty”), Abercrombie & Fitch (for their sporting catalog), Gorham Company wedding invitations (all text), Chalmers-Detroit Motor Company.
– Full page art or cartoon art by F. T. Richards (March); Bayard Jones (two full page artworks, paired, one “Hope” shows a man trying to fix a car in a lonely wooded spot, the other “Charity” shows the car being towing by a farmer and his team of oxen); William H. Walker (A school of Italian art); Chickering Pianos; Lord & Taylor for Onyx Hosiery (with art by M. Greiner)
– Two page centerspread art by Balfour-Ker, “Playing Bridge,” a man carrying his woman across a creek and collecting kisses while he does so.
– Some current events include : Women’s suffrage (much on this), Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.
– Many smaller than full-page car ads including an unusual one for Brewster & Company offering a Peerless car mounted with special design coachwork, they sound like custom cars.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1909 content – fun!