Life Magazine – February 26, 1925 (# 2208) – California Number

Description

Cover : Huge sun with copyright stamp for “Native Sun” by the California Patent office, art by  Fred G. Cooper.

– CALIFORNIA NUMBER.
– Full page color Goodrich Silvertown Balloon tires ad with two tires mounted on a rear rack on car.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Lauren Stout (Around the world with the California Boosters … California style ads for London, Reykjavik (Iceland), and Seoul), Strothmann (What’s the idea of the big celebration?), P. L. Crosby (Skippy : the people in this house better get learned how to make pancakes), Charles Livingston Bull (Dog sled art with poem by Dorothy Parker, “Balto.”), Charles Forbell (The car containing Rockefeller’s $1,600,000 gift to Japan), Ellison Hoover (two pages : An impression of California by one who has never been there), Portia ? (Listerine ad with ski theme art).
– Two page centerspread art by Gluyas Williams, “The traitor,” a lone man has an umbrella in a rain shower, everyone else is glaring at him and ignoring the rain.
– Some current events include : It is Mayor Hylan’s fault that seven years have passed without improvement in the subway system of New York, Senator Borah calls for return of German Property seized in the war, A young Polish actress in Poland shot and killed her fiancé to save him from pain in the last stages of cancer and the jury acquitted her, Is it true that Mark Twain’s mother was an illegitimate daughter of an Earl of Durham, Sled dog Balto leads the team that carried diphtheria antitoxin to Nome.
– And much, much more.