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Life Magazine – May 14, 1908 (# 1333) – Baby eating flies!
$14.00
Magazine Condition : Good
1 in stock
Description
Cover : Throw-back to original cover style, “Wanted : a Perseus, by Miss Democracy,” girl chained to boulder, art by Wm. H. Walker.
– Full page ad for Budweiser beer.
– Two page centerspread art by B. Cory Kilvert, Crowd of kids and other helpers around a broken down car 20 miles from New York.
– Current events include : It is discovered that the Metropolitan Railway used to pay five dollars a day to every policeman who appeared as a witness in a Metropolitan suit. The contrivance of checks on small dishonesties (like cash registers) have become a great commercial industry.
– “It is important to curb monopolies, to restrain great corporations from unjust use of great commercial powers, to regulate railroads so that they shall perform with impartiality the services they were chartered to render, to protect the young and the irresponsible from unnecessary temptations.”
– Creepy half page artwork by William H Walker show dogs about to operate on a Vivisector.
– Another chapter about the LIFE car in the made up New York to Paris car race.
– Very cute quarter page comic artwork by Harry A. Linnell (Baby’s eating the currants off the sticky paper … it is fly paper, of course!).
– Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1908 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!
