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Life Magazine – February 12, 1925 (# 2206) – Commuters’ Number
$38.00
Magazine Condition : Good
2 in stock
Description
Cover : Woman sewing on shirt cuff button as her husband (wearing shirt) gulps the last of his breakfast, “The 8:15 or bust!,” art by James Montgomery Flagg.
– COMMUTERS’ NUMBER (much on commuting to work, workers’ issue).
– Full page color odd Andy Consumer ad with art by Don Herold.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Frank Quail (Packard car ad, for twenty-five years), Rea Irvin (The slave), C. H. Sykes (a bad actor), P. L. Crosby (Skippy : I oughter be scared out alone like this), Oliver Herford (With charity for all), James Montgomery Flagg (you and your morning train).
– Cute spoof on train time table, Suburban branch.
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Selling Talk,” Young couple contemplating buying a lot in empty “Paradise Park” on which to build the home they imagine.
– Some current events include : The Eclipse, “Celestial machinery seems to run a good deal smoother than anything in this fussy little world we still live in,” Jesuit paper “America” protests gifts of Catholic money to build a Protestant Cathedral, Cook county in Illinois may execute Bernard Grant for killing a policeman, Bill in Congress to stop mailing of firearms.
– Nice full page color Fisk tires ad with old man using sign as shield from incoming snowballs, art by Norman Rockwell.
– Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1925 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!
– Full page color odd Andy Consumer ad with art by Don Herold.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Frank Quail (Packard car ad, for twenty-five years), Rea Irvin (The slave), C. H. Sykes (a bad actor), P. L. Crosby (Skippy : I oughter be scared out alone like this), Oliver Herford (With charity for all), James Montgomery Flagg (you and your morning train).
– Cute spoof on train time table, Suburban branch.
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Selling Talk,” Young couple contemplating buying a lot in empty “Paradise Park” on which to build the home they imagine.
– Some current events include : The Eclipse, “Celestial machinery seems to run a good deal smoother than anything in this fussy little world we still live in,” Jesuit paper “America” protests gifts of Catholic money to build a Protestant Cathedral, Cook county in Illinois may execute Bernard Grant for killing a policeman, Bill in Congress to stop mailing of firearms.
– Nice full page color Fisk tires ad with old man using sign as shield from incoming snowballs, art by Norman Rockwell.
– Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1925 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!
