Life Magazine – April 2, 1925 (# 2213) – John Held Jr. – Travel Number

– TRAVEL NUMBER.
– Full page color Pierce-Arrow car ad with nice watercolor art by Edwin Henry.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Alfred Frueh (split only two pages : Around the world with Paavo Nurmi), Ralph Barton (two pages : the awful effect of Coolidge economy on American tourists in Paris … traveling on the cheap), P. L. Crosby (Skippy : a friend spends the weekend with the Skinners … waiting to use the bathroom), McClelland Barclay (part of a Fisher Bodies ad),
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Seeing America First,” two native American men looking out at a mountain view.
– Some current events include : The Senate and the President are two institutions going different ways on the same track, Present activity in digging up buried cities all over the world (archaeology), 500 Catholics from Boston go to Rome to visit the Pope, At Bellevue Hospital a man who had been dumb for 55 years burst into speech after being giving ether.
– Full page color Lincoln ad with maroon car driving by an Athletic Club, art by Fred Cole.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1925 content – fun!