Life Magazine – April 15, 1909 (# 1381) – Jungle Number

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Cover : Teddy Roosevelt reading a message while riding an ostrich that has its head in the sand, art by James Montgomery Flagg.

– JUNGLE NUMBER (much on Roosevelt hunting in Africa).
– Full page color ads for Baker Electric Vehicles (with a mileage capacity of one hundred miles!), Hartford Tires (nice art), Peerless Motor Car Company (Silence Comfort).
– Ha, ha, very funny half page artwork by Orson Lowell, “A corner in the apartments of a matinee idol,” his portrait is everywhere!
– Full page black and white ads for Herreshoff Cars (all text), H. J. Heinz Company (All text, pertaining to food purity)
– Full page art or cartoon art by Mark Fenderson (The Tall Timber, Teddy Roosevelt and his native hunting party stalk the jungle floor as all the animals hide up in the trees),
– Two page centerspread art by Harrison Cady, “Thumbs Down,” The Nature Fakers and the Ananias Club vote for the lion to kill Teddy Roosevelt while he is hunting in the African Jungle (great social commentary in this artwork).
– Some current events include : Chauffeur driven cars running over people and not taking responsibility; Industrial accidents in Pittsburg kill over 500 and injure over 2000 every year; Tariff on books less than twenty years old.
– “Public opinion favors a law providing that chauffeurs who run away after running over people shall be hanged in chains in Union Square, and left hanging without regard to the opinions of the Board of Health. There should also be stocks put up in Union Square for the exhibition of joy-riders, male and female, who are caught in automobiles that run over folks while navigating the streets in a reckless manner.”
– And much, much more.