Life Magazine – February 4, 1909 (# 1371) – Valentine’s Day

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Cover : Old man removing the Life cupid (who is delivering valentines) with tongs, clearly love notes are not wanted in this house, art by James Montgomery Flagg.

– VALENTINE NUMBER.

– Full page color ad for Pierce Arrow cars (nice art by Adolph Treidler).

– Full page black and white ads for Packard Motor Car Company (excellent ad with Packard 30 as Landaulet), Oldsmobile (WONDERFUL soft art, Your point of view of motoring …), Heinz 57 (two pages, no art, pertains to benzoate of soda), Lord & Thomas advertising.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Albert D. Blashfield (St. Valentine Number), Orson Lowell (Having just accepted his father, woman turning down the proposal of the son).

– Two page centerspread art by Power O’Malley, Mother – this is her!, little boy introducing a little girl.

– Some current events include : Rabbi Samuel Schulman is guilty of passionate behavior at the meeting of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in Philadelphia (reading of the bible in public schools), Separation of church and state, “Probably we shall all be high Baptists in the end.”

– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1909 content – fun!