Life Magazine – April 29, 1920 (# 1956) – Psychic Number

– PSYCHIC NUMBER (much on mediums, Ouija, séances, spiritualism and more.
– Full page color Murad Turkish cigarettes ad with rather nice background art of tobacco leaves.
– Full page art or cartoon art by signed but too faint (The psychic wave has reached Bushnelleville), Victor C. Anderson (Mamma, what do poor people do who haven’t any home?), Charles Dana Gibson (two pages : Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us …), Robert L. Dickey (They’d muzzle the fleas too), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days : if the Spanish Inquisitors had been familiar with Jazz music).
– Two page centerspread art by Angus MacDonall (At last we are alone).
– Some current events include : Political candidate Hoover, Republican party, Outlaw strikes, Elevator men’s strike, Economic teachings are ‘Get what you can, doesn’t matter how.’
– “When the taste for wealth becomes generally diffused up and down and throughout the layers of human society, it makes for strikes and levies and bonuses, and incidentally for taxes and other things, even including wars.”
– Very very lovely full page color Pantasote ad with art of Columbia Crest, Mount Rainer National Park, not signed.
– Full page color Velvet tobacco ad with art by M. Leone Bracker, On the 5:15.
– Much more.