Life Magazine – July 16, 1925 (# 2228)

– Interesting full page color Goodrich Silvertown Balloon tires ad showing tire flat in an indented storage area at back of car.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Strothmann (Mental Hazards 3 : the fairway … golf theme), Alfred Frueh (Have your bungalow (model K. 150) delivered by air mail … extremely CUTE), C. H. Sykes (No rest for the weary), P.L. Crosby (Skippy : little boys playing soldier), H. M. Bateman (The call of the continent).
– Half page photo of children in Pottersville’s sheltered playroom … like a large picnic shelter.
– Two page centerspread fraught art of men attempting to light a lantern in a rowboat at night as they hope to flag down a passing ship, “The last match,” not signed but almost certainly Anton Otto Fisher.
– Some current events include : Lightening storm in New York on June 25, 1925 when lightening struck an arm off the cross on the spire of St. Patrick’s Cathedral and hit an eagle on the tower of the Natural History Museum, The Scopes trial, Tennessee law says evolution cannot be taught in schools, Creation vs. Evolution, Spiritists.
– Quite lovely full page color Beech-Nut Orange Drops ad with art by J. O’Neill.
– And much, much more.