Life Magazine – April 23, 1914 (# 1643)

Description

Cover : Great art of people, horses, and dogs with unnaturally colored hair that matches, art by Robert L. Dickey, Colored Hair Has Come.

– Artists and cartoonists include Angus MacDonall, A. B. Walker, Richard Culter, Wm. H. Walker (full page), F. G. Cooper, Lester, C. F. Peters, Donald McKee, Rea Irvin, F. W. Read, R. H. Rahilly (probably), Harrison Cady, Harry Grant Dart (full page), E. G. Lutz, P.L. Crosby, Ralph Criswell, and others.
– Two page center spread art by Wm. H. Walker, The New Navy, ship with women on board and lots of signs prohibiting everything.
– Rhymed review of “The Miracle Man” by Frank L. Packard.
– Full page color ad for the Rice Leaders of the World Association, about leaders, not rice.
– Quarter page ad for Blue Peter cigarettes.
– Full page Fisk Rubber company ad for tires, art by (looks like) R. G. Morgan.
– Full page art ad for St. Julien Claret.
– Neat half page comic art that shows cupid guiding married couples on a technical rock route, many are falling or slipping.
– The death of King Railroad, cartoons and poetry.
– Letters of a Japanese school boy : Did England pay half the dig bill in Panama?
– Life’s wedding lexicon, a glossary of terms (such as OBEY : an obsolete term).
– Current topics include the Democratic administration, the tariff bill, the currency bill, Brother Jo Daniels and drinking in the Navy, alcohol, Alabama’s Mr. Underwood, Women’s vote, New police commissioner Mr. Arthur Woods, William Randolph Hearst, and more.
– Full page Stanweld Rims ad showing bolted wheel rims.
– Half page Stutz Motor Car company for young fellows who like speed.
– Neat full page Evinrude ad with lady sitting in small boat with outboard motor.
– Full page Pall Mall cigarettes ad with red and gold, statue, National Monuments # 4.
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1914 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!