Life Magazine – August 7, 1919 (# 1919) – Anti-Everything Number

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Cover : Man shaking his fist through a porthole, “Deported,” art by Angus MacDonall.

– ANTI-EVERYTHING NUMBER (sounds like the current 2016 political scene in 2Neat’s town).
– Full page color ads for Adams California Fruit gum (American Chicle, with Ruth Roland and lovely painting of woman eating cherries), Prince Albert tobacco (nice portrait of man in white hat, not named), Life Savers (baseball scene, might be a photo).
– Full page ads for Waltham Watches, Mimeograph (with art of cherries by RFH), Fisk Cord Tires (nice art by Peter Helck), Goodyear tires (with truck photos, Fred W. Albrecht, Acme Chain of Basket Stores, Akron, Ohio), Rexall Orderlies laxative.
– CUTE half page art by Angus MacDonall, The gentle art of angling, young couple has their fishing rods set up in view of chaperone but are actually snuggling just out of sight.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harry Grant Dart (The millennium), Oliver Herford (When the world is perfect), Charles Dana Gibson (Yes, it cost me ten thousand dollars to have my family tree looked up and five thousand dollars more to have it hushed up), F. T. Richards (July).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Broughton (The assassination of Bacchus), Pilgrim with blunderbuss shooting into a party of revelers.
– Cute small artwork by Norman Anthony, fully dressed couple at beach looking at women in swimsuits, “Beauty is all a woman has to fight with. … Well, they’ll never be arrested for carrying concealed weapons.”
– Some current events include : League of Nations, Republican party is operating poorly and doesn’t seem to want Peace On Earth, Ireland is the greatest obstacle to like-mindedness between the British people and Americans.
– And much more 1919   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!