Life Magazine – August 16, 1923 (# 2128) – B. Cory Kilvert – Farmers Number

– FARMERS NUMBER.
– Full page color Prudential Insurance ad with Regulus, art by Strothmann.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Kemble (On the Farm), Rea Irvin (When the intelligentsia’s cows come home), Unsigned (Two pages : The American farmer may think he has it hard, but he has a cinch compared with the movie farmer), Charles Dana Gibson (1865 – Warren Gamaliel Harding – 1923), John Held Jr. (The universal use of hay wire), Harrison Cady (Two pages : A glimpse of farm life in central Africa), P. L. Crosby (Skippy No. 20), McClelland Barclay (Fisher Body ad).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson “Hadn’t you boys better help your brother?”
– Some current events include : Death of Warren Harding, The Committee on Plan for New York, has computed that by the year 2000 the population of New York will reach 28 million, Trustees of First Presbyterian Church on Fifth Avenue add a fire escape, Reverend Harry Fosdick.
– Half page art by J. R. Shaver (Uncle Mac, a dog fancier, passes judgment on the baby … woman with arms in air as man holds up baby as if by the scruff of its neck).
– Much more.