Life Magazine – July 11, 1912 (# 1550) – Your Best Girl

– YOUR BEST GIRL NUMBER.
– Full page color Pro-phy-lac-tic tooth brush ad, woman adding one to her packed suitcase.
– Full page poem by Arthur Guiterman (Letters to the Literati, to George Randolph Chester).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Raymond Moreau Crosby (I came within an ace of being run over by an auto today), Bayard Jones (Is this seat engaged?), Rea Irvin (Sports of all nations : an Arabian night), Rea Irvin (Graduating exercises of a cooking school in darkest Africa : the waffle class), Charles Forbell (I think)(The outlaw).
– Photo of happy boys at Life’s Fresh Air camp, list of contributors, four short letters from kids at camp (Including Simon, Mollie & Nettie) and other acknowledgements.
– Quarter page ad for Arrow collars and shirts, man holding a tennis racket, art surely by Leyendecker.
– Very cool half page ad for Curtiss Hydro-aeroplanes with excellent art, Float plane.
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson (Naming the Day … young couple talking to pastor).
– Some current events include : Democratic convention, avoiding the calamity of voting for Mr. Bryan, Ryan of the Metropolitan railroad, Governor Hadley, Why not an Outcast Party?
– Full page color Coca-Cola ad with meandering road in woods, art by D with arrow through it.
– And so much more!  Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!