Life magazine – January 8, 1925 (# 2201) – Car Number

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Cover : Simple but charming art of family on a car trip, art by F. G. Cooper.

AUTOMOBILE NUMBER
– Artists and cartoonists include C. D. Gibson (full page), Farr, Ralph Barton, Rea Irvin, Tousey, Albert Levering, Don Herold, Charles Forbell (full page, excellent art of two men high on a steel girder), O. Howard, Ellison Hoover, C. H. Sykes (full page), Frueh, Anton Otto Fischer, Nate Collier, P. L. Crosby (full page), John Held, Jr., and others.
– Two page center spread art by Victor C. Anderson, two old gents sitting on general store front porch watching the cars go by.
– Full page Hupmobile Eight carvad.
– If road signs knew candor.
– Benzoylsulphonicimid is 500 times sweeter than honey.
– A bedtime motor fable by Tip Bliss.
– Anthology of a used car market – very cute!
– Current topics include Scientific American, Spiritist phenomena, Spiritism, Houdini, prohibition, Knox College in Galesburg Illinois and more.
– Quarter page ad for travel to New Orleans, The Bienville, the Roosevelt hotels.
– Automobile geometry.
– Full page Listerine ad, women on deck of cruise ship, I can’t quite read the signature but it is clear.
– Full page color Colgate’s rapid shave cream, shaving lotion ad.
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1925 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!