Life Magazine – January 21, 1909 (# 1369) – Travel Number

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Cover : Black porter brushing off the wings of Life’s Cherub, art by James Montgomery Flagg.

– TRAVEL NUMBER.
– Full page color ad for Peerless Motor Car Company, Comfort, Silence.
– Full page black and white ads for American Motor Car Company (With illustrations of 7 models : Traveler, Tourist, Roadster, Wayfarer, Speedster, Gadabout, and Limousine), Northern Pacific Railway Yellowstone Park Line (with art of Old Faithful Inn).
– Full page art or cartoon art by William H Walker (At the White House, after March 4, 1909, dancing will supersede Tennis),
– Excellent Two page centers pread art by Albert Levering, Bi-wing airplanes terrorizing motorists.
– Some current events include : President Roosevelt’s last fights and agenda in his final six weeks in office, Tennessee Coal & Iron Company being swallowed by the big Steel Corporation, Bill to increase the salary of the President to $100,000; Beach Hargis of Breathitt, Kentucky; Trial of the murderers of Senator Carmack; Choosing a new president for Harvard College.
– Actual news : “Beach Hargis, of Breathitt, Kentucky, after shooting and killing his father, the rapid-firing judge, and being released on heavy bail after one ineffectual trial, was drunk and shooting up the town of Jackson within two hours.”
– And much, much more (ads, humorous artwork, sarcastic commentary).