Life Magazine – August 12, 1926 (# 2284) – Knee-high to a Grasshopper

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Cover : Cute young lady in the woods eating chocolates and being startled by a grasshopper, “Knee-high to a grasshopper,” art by Leonard T. Holton.

– Full page color ads for Willys-Knight (A distinguished society matron records a motoring predilecton), GORGEOUS Coca-Cola ad (with art by Fred Mizen of elderly couple dressed in white toasting each other against a dark green background, Through all the years since 1886).
– Full page black and white ads for Parker Duofold desk sets, Hamilton Watch (the watch of railroad accuracy), Mimeograph, Eastman Kodak, Gillette safety razor (629 out of 761 railroad men agreed).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Don Herold (The comic strip laboratory at the school of journalism), Gluyas Williams (The virtuoso who couldn’t practice unless surrounded by the Concert Hall atmosphere … people in his house hold sneezing, dropping things, etc.), C. H. Sykes (The battle of Paris, 1926 … our idiots versus theirs), Bruce Bairnsfather (The Explorers’ Home : an urgent need now that there’s no place left to explore), Edwina (Sinbad : the tough guy.  Edwina, who is famous for her dog cartoons, is Frances Edwina Dumm.).
– Fascinating Crimes by Robert Benchley, 1. The Odd Occurrence in the Life of Dr. Meethas, illustrated with wood-cuts by John Held Jr.
– Some current events include : Reverend Walter Wynn of England predicts a big happening on the 20th of July, The fall of the French Franc, 36 dead in Buffalo and Toronto and Lockport from wood alcohol, 13 dead in West Virginia from the falling of a suspension bridge, The nations of Europe need to compose something that will be like the United State of Europe (Euro zone idea 90 years ago), Foreign war debts, Ruction with the Catholic church in Mexico.
– One third page photo of boys and tents at Life’s Fresh Air Camps.
– And so much more!  1926 Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!