Life Magazine – February 8, 1912 (# 1528) – C. Coles Phillips – Bridge Number

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Cover : Woman playing bridge, lovely fadeout art by C. Coles Phillips, “And Hearts are Trumps.”

– BRIDGE NUMBER (the card game).
– Full page color Wrigley’s Spearmint Pepsin gum ad, “The Favor Confection.”
– Full page ads for Locomobile cars, Packard cars (art by Thiede), Columbia (United States Motor company), Detroit Electric (Anderson Electric car company), Hudson Motor Car Company, Speedwell Motor Car Company, Rambler Motor cars (Thomas B. Jeffery company).
– Poem, Ballade of the “Two heart bid” by Carolyn Wells.
– Two page centerspread art by C. Fosmire (probably Cyrus Fosmire), “Fiction.”
– Some current events include : Colonel Roosevelt’s candidacy, Taft, the Evening Post, Cardinal Farley received by the Roman Catholics, No more Latin at Orono at the University of Maine.
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1912 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!