Life Magazine – July 27, 1911 (# 1500) – C. Coles Phillips – Canoe Guide

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Cover : Woman in swimming costume and holding a paddle, “A safe guide?,” nice fade-out = fadeaway art by C. Coles Phillips.

– Full page color Wrigley’s Spearmint Pepsin gum ad.
– Life’s Family album : artist Mark Fenderson.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (You ask me to marry you …), John Cassel (probably)(Treasure Island, the wreck of the good ship “Health”), Art Young (That point of view : giraffe and turtle), Walt Kuhn (When the barnyard folks go motoring).
– Quarter page photo from Life’s Fresh Air camps for poor city kids that shows kids at a water pump.
– Elaine uplifted : a romance of the elevator, by Sigmund Spaeth.
– Nice full page Packard Motor Trucks ad with Arbuckles coffee truck art.
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Broughton, “The piping times of peace,” curious art with animal icons of various warlike nations in peaceful scene in forest.
– Some current events include : Railroad accident on July 11th at Bridgeport, Excess heat, Exceptionally hot July, Governor Dix, New York Charter bill, Levy elections bill, Interborough Company working to complete subway system in New York, Woman’s suffrage bill defeated this year, Board of Inebriety, Shuttling drunkards back and forth to Blackwell’s Island.
– Full page color Mennen’s borated talcum Toilet Powder ad, art of two women in mint green, not signed.
– Much more.