Life Magazine – April 8, 1915 (# 1693) – Cupids crowding Couple

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Cover : A couple cuddling on a bench under the rising moon are about to be attacked by an army of cupids.  The Night Attack, art by Paul Stahr.

– Artists and cartoonists include James Montgomery Flagg, Foster, Paul Goold, Otho Cushing, Lester, Rea Irvin (full page), Donald McKee, A. H. Payne, H. B. Martin (probably), Angus MacDonall, Ellison Hoover, Crawford Young, A. B. Walker, A. D. Blashfield (full page), Rodney Thomson, Mark Fenderson (full page, plus) , Charles Dana Gibson (full page), Paul Goold, F. G. Cooper, G. B. Inwood, Harry Grant Dart, Edith Deitsch, Sullivant, Foster, and others.
– Two page center spread art by Wm. L. Jacobs, The Debutante (girl surrounded by men).
– Full page color White Company car ad, nice!
– Full page Hudson motor car company ad, $1550.
– Full page Detroit Springs ad, self lubricating, car springs.
– Mr. Rowland G. Usher and his visions.
– The geography of married life.
– Judging from the amount paid out for pensions, the number of survivors of the Civil War have greatly increased in the last few years.
– Current topics include Secretary of State Bryan, Democratic government, neutrality, the war, more.
– Osborne, Warden of Sing Sing, wants prisons without walls, George Junior Republic.
– Man and woman dressed up as opposite sex for party, woman objects to her husband going out dressed like that.
– Small ad for Allen’s foot-ease powder, Allen S. Olmsted of Le Roy.
– Nice small ad for Old Town Canoe.
– Quarter page ad about face cleanliness and blackheads.
– Full page color Murad Turkish cigarettes ad, people walking in park.
– Full page color Pall Mall cigarettes ad.
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1915 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!