Life Magazine – January 14, 1909 (# 1368) – The Life Bus

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Cover : Super excellent depiction of a double-decker bus driven by Life’s cherub (driving into 1909), art by the talented Paul Gould. One of the great Life covers!

– Full page color ad for Victor Talking Machine Company with art of Jenny Lind singing at Castle Garden in 1851.
– Full page black and white ads for Prudential insurance.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (parents speaking to daughter who has married without their permission), Rosenmeyer (possibly)(Wife hurrying still life artist because children are hungry).
– Two page centerspread art by Harry Grant Dart “The old guard dies but never surrenders,” the medical profession versus illness.
– Some current events include : Earthquake in Sicily and Calabria (killed more than 100,000 people and had a tsunami reaching 39 feet); School girls are remonstrating the President for his manners as a horseman; President Castro is now an exile from Venezuela; President speaks to Congress about the Secret Service.
– Half page ad for Uneeda biscuits by the National Biscuit Company.
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1909 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!