Life Magazine – February 9, 1911 (# 1476) – C. Coles Phillips

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Cover : Gorgeous fade-away style art of a woman talking on the telephone, “Long distance makes the heart grow fonder,” art by the great C. Coles Phillips.

– Full page color ads for Massage Cream (a puzzle for the readers), Pall Mall cigarettes.

– Full page black and white ads for Franklin Automobile Company, Columbia Motor Cars (with nice art), United Shoe Machinery Company.

– Full page art or cartoon art by J. Conacher (The improper guest, wife telling husband he can have her or the new half-dressed statue in the house, but not both), Mark Fenderson (If our dreams came true).

– Two page centerspread art by Walter Tittle, “Frequently : what we want, we can’t have, and what we can have we don’t want,” people in a line, each beseeching the one ahead of them.

– Some current events include : Odd statement by Bishop Ludden pertaining to the New York Democrats, Catholic Irishmen, Tammany, Charles Murphy.

– Humorous half page artwork by Mark Fenderson, man is sitting in broken down car while his girl in underneath it repairing it and swearing, “Oh Lizzie! If you don’t stop that dreadful language I’ll never go out with you again!”

– More funny “recipes” from the “Human Cookbook.”

– 26 reasons why any man should not marry a suffragette.

– A whole page on Life’s Great Auto race with current placement of the entries, car advertisers ranked by number of lines in their ads.

–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1911 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!