Life Magazine – June 17, 1909 (# 1390) – Book Number

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Cover : Life’s cherub on the back of a stubborn donkey, trying to get some forward motion using his quill. Not signed, but style might indicate John Cecil Clay.

– BOOK NUMBER (much humor related to books and writing).
– Neat half page ad for Locomobile with a photo of the 90 Locomobile winning the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup with an average speed of 64.38 MPH including stops.
– Full page color ad for Eastman Kodak Company, “There are no game laws for those who hunt with a Kodak,” large photo of man with backpack taking a nature photo.
– Full page black and white ads for Ivory soap (with neat artwork of train composed of soap bars).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harrison Cady (The first summer boarder arrives … he is a fat city man and all the mosquitoes are welcoming him with a parade), A. B. Frost (page and a half, The busy bee and how he spoiled a great thought), Edmond Frederick (The right time … kissing over a sun dial)
– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell, “Lowering the temperature for mother and the girls,” college boys running around their apartment hiding all the offensive stuff before letting their mother in … pipes, alcohol, pictures of dancing girls and such.
– Some current events include : Tariff debate; Some think colleges are great and other think they are a curse; “The most honored person at a college is not the scholar who gets the most out of the university, but the graduate who puts the most into it.”
– Very dated half page ad for Rock Island – Frisco Lines and the Rocky Mountain Limited, “Frontier fun without danger or discomfort: Colorado,” shows children watching a maid feed a chained bear cub.
– And much, much more.