Life Magazine – August 11, 1910 (# 1450) – Fat Folks Number

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Cover : Funny (but very politically incorrect) art showing black cannibal feeding a fat white man as the huge kettle heats, “Who said “Nobody loves a fat man?,” art by Rea Irvin.

– FAT FOLKS NUMBER.  (many jokes about being fat)
– Full page ads for Detroit Electric cars (Anderson Carriage company, with nice photo), Firestone tires.
– Excellent full page color Pierce Arrow car ad with art by Gil Spear.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell, “Why Auntie, have the magazines upset you?”
– Two page centerspread art by Harry Grant Dart, “If we all were stout.” (This was a joke in 1910, not so far fetched a hundred years later).
– Some current events include : Mr. Bryan was beaten in the Nebraska Democratic convention, The “county option” = dealing with the question of Prohibition by the county rather than by the state, Victor Morawetz reports on the depressed state of the security market, Mr. Edison has a new electric motor.
– And so much more!  Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!