Life Magazine – August 4, 1910 (# 1449)

Description

Cover : Young woman raking hay in the field while watching an airplane fly overhead, “Maud Muller,” art by B. Cory Kilvert.  The art subject is based on a poem by Joseph Greenleaf Whittier.

– MIDSUMMER NUMBER.
– Full page ads for Locomobile (text only), Upcoming LIFE numbers, Packard Motor trucks (with cool photo of the Mosler Safe Company truck), Western Union Telegraph, Century magazine.
– Creepy quarter page ad for the Savage automatic, a small handgun that can fire ten shots quick, a “Human arsenal.”
– Full page art or cartoon art by Mark Fenderson (Fiction and Truth).
– Nice full page color Stearns car ad with red convertible on hilly road, art by Ray Parmelee.
– Nice full page color Mennen’s Toilet powder ad with art.
– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell, “I wonder what has become of all the girls I used to know in college.”
– Some current events include : Congressional campaigns are starting, Speaker Cannon expounding to the people of Kansas about the sinfulness and folly of insurgency, Also the races for state governors.
– “The Game,” short story by C. T.
– And much more 1910   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!