Life Magazine – March 25, 1915 (# 1691) – Seeking riches

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Cover : Art is modeled after the Morgan Silver dollar, art by Malcolm Strauss, “The Girl We’re all after.”

– Illustrators, artists and cartoonists include C. F. Peters (full page), Ellison Hoover, Paul Goold, Clarence W. Anderson, Donald McKee, Foster, Crawford Young, G. B. Inwood, Calvert, P. L. Crosby, Raeburn Van Buren, Marcus, Charles Dana Gibson (full page), Arthur T. Merrick, Otho Cushing, Chester I. Garde, Wm. H. Walker (full page), W. O. Wilson, A. B. Walker, M. A. Stocking, Angus MacDonall (pilot flying into eternity), Robert L. Dickey, Walter Tittle, and others.
– Two page center spread art by Orson Lowell, women at party all wearing the same gown.
– Full page color ad for Vanity Fair magazine that shows the April 1915 cover.
– Full page Victrola ad showing close-up of Tone arm.
– Nice half page Delco ad for Electric lighting, cranking and ignition on cars.
– Full page Miller tires ad, Akron, Ohio.
– Popular ailments (such as Vaccination : a widespread medical complaint, often fatal.).
– Spring bloom, poem by Juliet Wilbor Tompkins.
– A new industry (or what to do with our useless citizens).
– Current topics include General Bernhardi, Mr. Usher and his book on Pan-Germanism, William P. Frye the famous squire-rigger ship is sunk, John McManus (head of sanitary milk business in Mexico) is killed, Dardanelles, Allies success at Neuve Chapelle, French success in the Argonne, Troubles at Albany, and more.
– Illiteracy in Alabama.
– Full page Oldsmobile car ad showing it going through a real stream, art by William Harnden Foster.
– Half page Whitman’s sampler, chocolates ad.
– Half page Hartford shock absorber ad, for cars.
– Half page Gillette safety razor ad showing factory in Boston.
– Small ad for Dioxogen, a pure peroxide of hydrogen.
– Half page Beech-Nut Oscar’s sauce ad, Waldorf-Astoria.
– Full page color Grape-Nuts ad with three of the medals of valor.
– And much more.