Life Magazine – January 7, 1926 (# 2253) – Automobile Number

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Cover : Woman leaping into a car, “A quick pick-up,” fantastic and attractive art by Garrett Price.

– AUTOMOBILE NUMBER (much pertains to cars – FUN!).
– Full page color ads for Sheaffer’s pens, Dupont Duco (great art of car in night time winter scene, signed but not quite legible … G. C. Peak??  Do you know this artist?), Beech-Nut fruit drops.
– Full page black and white ads for Hupmobile six (with art of the car), Clicquot Club Ginger Ale, Haldeman-Julius Company books (of Girard, Kansas), Reed & Barton silverware,  Grebe Synchrophase (radio), Body by Fisher (for cars, art by McClelland Barclay), Statler Hotels.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Alfred Frueh (The first covered wagon show : Brigham Young thinks of buying a little town car for family use … huge long covered wagon for a huge Mormon family), C. H. Sykes (Land Ho!  Uncle Sam clinging to the sinking remains of the Ship Prohibition as Bootlegger sharks circle and the Land of Moderation is within sight).
– Some current events include : The World Court, Prohibition, Mr. Borah, Frank Munsey had unquestionable gifts as a newspaper publisher, Pennsylvania is not producing enough coal.
– Cute half page artwork by John Held, Jr., “Putting on a lot of dog,” Convertible car with one human and six dogs.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1926 content – fun!