Life Magazine – April 29, 1915 (# 1696) – Religion precedes Persecution

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Cover : Three Satyrs, one is an adult learning to ride a crude bicycle, the other two are youngsters. Nice pastel pastoral background and shore.  When The World Was Young, Art by (looks like) E. C. Eiedl.

– Neat Full page color ad for Vanity Fair magazine with the May 1915 cover.
– Artists and cartoonists include Josh Brady, Leo Cheney (full page), Angus MacDonall,  C. F. Peters, Donald McKee, Robert L. Dickey, Rea Irvin, J. R. Shaver (definitely prior to his dark years), Tousey, Victor C. Anderson (full page, cute art of old fisherman stealing successful young fisherman’s catch), Crawford Young, Chester I. Garde, C. M. Lambly, Charles Dana Gibson (full page), Paul Reilly, F. B. Cooper, Paul Goold, W. O. Wilson, Emery (neat art, Rival Routes, air vs. sea), J. Conacher, A. B. Walker, C. Barnes, Ralph Briggs Fuller, A. D. Blashfield, and others.
– Two page center spread cartoon by Harry Grant Dart, Impregnable New York.
– Very cool full page ad for Weed anti-skids chains, tire chains, lots of cars with owner’s names.
– To Cave Men, poem by Arthur L. Salmon.
– Letters of a Japanese school-boy, Starving Germany.
– The vulgarity of refinement.
– In the history of any people, what has always preceded persecution?  Religion.
– A fable for a working girl, by Juliet Wilbor Tompkins.
– Current topics include the opening of baseball season, Riggs Bank fight, trial of William Barnes’s libel suit, the war, the tax rate, Dr. Dernburg’s letter, General Huerta and more.
– Lengthy definition of a investment dividend.
– Quarter page Hardmn tires ad.
– Small illustrated ad for Basline Autowline, car tow rope.
– Nice half page Mogul Egyptian cigarettes ad.
– Excellent full page color Phoenix Silk Hose ad, A Sight Draft with Interest.
– Nice full page Bull Durham smoking tobacco ad with people watching a baseball game.
– And much more!