Life Magazine – April 2, 1914 (# 1640) – Easter Number

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Cover : Fairy Spring touching her wand to hatboxes full of flowers, “Spring unlocks the flowers,” art by Angus MacDonall.

– EASTER NUMBER (a very fat issue).

– Full page COLOR ads for Stevens-Duryea automobiles (nice art by William Harnden Foster), Nylo Chocolates (nice art of couple on a swing, let this be a Nylo Easter),

– Full page ads for Gray & Davis starting-lighting systems (with photos of testers), Fisk Rubber Tires (with yawning toddler, time to re-tire), G. F. Heublein Club Cocktails, Willys-Overland automobile, E. La Montagne’s Sons wines, Chickering pianos, Ohio Electric cars, Remington typewriters, Federal Motor trucks, Hudson Motor cars, Kelly-Springfield tires.

– Lovely half page Franklin Simon and Company dressy tailored suits ads with models 29 and 31.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Gordon Grant (Beethoven), Orson Lowell (Two pages : spring fashions for men (done like women’s fashions), Charles Forbell (April showers), Charles Dana Gibson (Botany in the bowery), F. T. Richards (March),

– Perfect 2/3 artwork by Broughton, “Expiring winter : the mortal wound,” white outline of old man in grass with flowers coming up through the heart.

– Two page COLOR centerspread art by Angus MacDonall, “The path of life,” old man leading two toddlers along a path as cupid and the devil lurk and an angel waits at the far end.

– Some current events include : Lid about to blow off in Ulster, Editor of Paris Figaro has been shot by the wife of the Minister of Finance, Demand for unemployment insurance, Woodrow Wilson.

– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1914 content – fun!