Life Magazine – June 10, 1909 (# 1389) – Flirts’ Number

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Cover : Lovely young lady, done in the fade-away style, choosing between love, brains, money, title, and purity, art by the great C. Coles Phillips.

– FLIRTS NUMBER (a number of fun items relating to this).
– Full page black and white ads for Packard Motor Cars, Herreshoff Cars (all text)
– Full page art or cartoon art by Raymond Crosby (Gourmet et Gourmand, man with woman).
– Two page centerspread art by William H. Walker, “Income Tax! : Senator Root pleads for our already overtaxed rich.” Sounds just like current politics in 2019.
– Some current events include : Lack of recruits for the ministry; Seminaries; Law of New York State that prohibits traffic in liquors within two hundred feet of a school or church; Modest stevedore who jumped into the North River to save 12-year-old Jimmy Gallagher.
– Half page ad for Winchester rifles with nice artwork of a rhinoceros, not politically correct now!
– A humorous piece about “Life’s Great Marathon Race.”
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1909 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!