Life Magazine – June 24, 1909 (# 1391) – Garden Number

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COVER : Young gardener is being hoisted aloft by the anchor of an airship.  Art by James Montgomery Flagg.

– GARDEN NUMBER.

– Full page color ad for Oldsmobile Six with 42 inch wheels (Lovely art in soft green and brown of six people in open car motoring through forest, signed in lower left corner but I do not recognize it).

– Full page black and white ads for Prudential Life Insurance ($50 paid to family a month for life), Life magazine Fourth of July Number coming next.

– Two page centerspread art by William H. Walker (This is no country for me!, tiny everyman fleeing from giant rich people).

– Some current events include : Congress is busy with the tariff issues and nothing else, President Taft has not yet picked out an Ambassador to London, Death of Dr. Edward Everett Hale.

– “If only the prohibitionists will also prohibit tobacco, automobiles, peach basket hats, travel and education we may come nearer to living on what we have.”

– And much, much more.