Life Magazine – April 15, 1915 (# 1694) – Spring Plowing

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Cover : Boy and plow horse being startled by Spring Goddess sowing, art by Rodney Thomson, “Spring Sowing”

– Artists and cartoonists include A. D. Blashfield, Ellison Hoover, Rm. Crosby, Sullivant, Josh Brady, Angus MacDonall (full page, Garden of Eden), Albert Levering, Gerard C. Delano, Paul Reilly, W. O. Wilson, M. A. Stocking or Stucking, Wm. H. Walker, Otho Cushing, Rea Irvin (full page), Chester I. Garde,
Charles Dana Gibson (full page), Clarence Rowe, Alek Sass, F. G. Cooper, R. B. Fuller, F. W. Read, C. F. Peters, Donald McKee, R. H. Rahilly, Robert L. Dickey, and others.
– Two page center spread art by Harrison Cady, Belgium (with windmill).
– Full page Mobiloil ad, Vacuum oil company, with lots of photos from around the world and much text – interesting ad.
– Half page Franklin Simon ad for silk underwear and hosiery, women in their underthings.
– Two different quarter page ads for Mogul Egyptian cigarettes.
– Nice full page Willard Storage Battery ad, car batteries.
– Return of the Warblers, a cubist sonnet, poem by George Lear.
– Why some people travel.
– A man with a single opinion is apt to spoil it by overcoddling just as he would an only child.
– Current topics include Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, Sinking of the Falaba by a German submarine, Correspondent Robert Dunn shoots French soldiers, Willard from Kansas, and more.
– There is no sign that anything will end the war except dead Germans.
– Nice half page Sanatogen for exhaustion and nerves.
– Quarter page Dioxogen ad for scratches and bruises.
– Half page Hamilton watch ad with railroad conductor J. L. Servis.
– Full page Overland car ad, $1075, Willys-Overland.
– Full page color Victrola ad with fancy livingroom scene.
– And much more.