Life Magazine – January 7, 1909 (# 1367) – FAT Auto Issue

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Cover : Life’s cupid pumping up a flat car tire, art by James Montgomery Flagg.

– BUZZ-WAGON NUMBER (this is a FAT issue focusing on cars).
– Full page color ads for Peerless Motor Car Company (1909, Silence Comfort), Locomobile Company (art of the finish of the 1908 International Race for the Vanderbilt Cup), Diamond Rubber company (super nighttime art, signed but I don’t recognize, possibly F C S in a circle), Pierce Arrow (Excellent art by Louis Fancher).
– Full page black and white ads for Packard Motor Car Company (1909 Packard “thirty”), White Company (Model M White Steamer), Firestone non-skid tire, Goodrich tires, Chalmers-Detroit Motor Company (Chalmers-Detroit “Forty”), Atlas Motor Car company (half page), Rambler (Offset crank shaft, model 44, 34 HP), Studebaker (all text), Herreshoff Car (all text), Marmon Cars, Morgan & Wright tires, Waverley Electric Carriages (formerly Pope-Waverley), Lord & Thomas advertising, Good Year tires (all text, some color).
– Nice half page ad for Ideal Vacuum Cleaner, with art.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Geo. W. Barratt (Forty miles from anywhere and the parson away on vacation … sad elopers), Art Young (Shots at truth),
– Two page fiction story, “Dust unto dust” by Chesterton Todd.
– Two page centerspread art by Bayard Jones, “Faith : though he slay me, yet will I trust him,” woman riding with reckless driver (portrait format).
– Some current events include : Cleaning up newspapers (much on this).
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1909 content – fun!