Life Magazine – April 29, 1909 (# 1383) – Health Number

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Cover : Baby distastefully holding an early baby bottle, art by B. Cory Kilvert.

– HEALTH NUMBER.
– Full page color ads for Rubberset Shaving Brush (with odd real photo of Bulldog being held in the air while it holds on to the bristles of the brush … showing how firmly the bristles are set into the brush), Oldsmobile Cars (Triumphal cars, past and present, art by Otho Cushing).
– Full page black and white ads for Paris-Lyon-Mediterranee Railway Company of France (PLM), Life magazine Sportsman’s Number coming next.
– Half page ad for Winchester 22 rifles with lovely art of woman packing a canoe for a lengthy trip, Makes outing outfit complete.
– Extremely excellent quarter page artwork in silhouette form by Jessie Gillespie, Metamorphosis, lady taking hoop from under skirt and turning it into a huge hat.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (The twins, inseparable in everything, decide to Marry … proposing to the same woman), F. T. Richards (April), Harrison Cady (Phantoms of Hope … bald men with Hair restorer, fat people with anti-fat tonic, etc.).
– Two page centerspread art by Harry Grant Dart, The Cost of Living, only the rich can afford to see a doctor.
– Some current events include : Life magazine disagrees with the proposed new location of a new art exhibition gallery on the present site of the Armory / Arsenal in Central Park, Current din of shrieks and frenzied appeals from protected interests, Tariffs, 110 persons have been killed by automobiles in the city of New York in the last 15 months.
– Short story, “An outsider,” Winkle speaks on health, by Thomas L. Masson.
– And much, much more.

– A note about the baby bottle portrayed in the cover art : “Invented in 1860, the long-tube feeding bottle responded to the demand for a tough, practical and inexpensive baby bottle: the glass flask equipped with a rubber tube allowed the infant to more or less feed itself! Although initially acclaimed for its practical nature, this ‘killer tube’ was banned in 1910 as it proved a real breeding ground for bacteria.”

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