Life Magazine – January 19, 1911 (# 1473) – Dancing snowmen

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Cover : Snowmen and snowwomen made to look like dancers and musicians, “A snow ball,” art by Charles Broughton.

– Full page color ad for Lyon & Healy Pianos (black, red, and white, art by JM).

– Full page black and white ads for Columbia Motor Cars (one of the three best cars built), Electric Storage Battery Company (Ironclad = Exide battery, what every owner of an electric vehicle should know), Life’s suffragette contest, Packard Motor Trucks (85 Packard trucks have been purchased by 39 public service companies in 28 cities), Broc Electric vehicle company (the luxurious Broc electric).

– Full page art or cartoon art by four artists (odd page meant to be cut apart and shuffled), W. O. Wilson (Shades of our ancestors, airplane flying over ghosts at a plantation), Harry Grant Dart (History as it might have been : Henry VIII entering Reno, Nevada).

– Life’s family album : Wilbur D. Nesbit, with small photo and sample poem.

– Two page centerspread art by Harrison Cady (The road to wealth, lots of pit-falls).

– Some current events include : Authority of Rome crumbling, An emperor is no final cure for anything, “Man does not get to develop his full size in leading strings.”

– Cute half page artwork by C. F. Neagle (Man washing dishes as his wife cries, kitchen is a mess with broken crockery and food boiled over on stove … looks like the help left on a moment’s notice, “Oh John, how I wish there were no such things as servants” “Well, my dear, we have no direct evidence that there are.”

– And much, much more.

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