Life Magazine – May 20, 1920 (# 1959) – Dog guarding sheep

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Cover : Collie dog guarding a lamb, “Responsibility,” art by Robert L. Dickey.

– Full page color ads for Michelin Universal Cord tires, Mercer Motors company (Hare’s Motors, gorgeous art with trees in pink and lilac bloom … from the beauties of springs to beauty of spring suspension), Heinz vinegars Maid carrying a salad tray, artist is Both, possibly Armend Both – who knows this artist?), MacBeth green visor lens (headlights), Prudential Insurance (art by Adolph Treidler), Chesterfield cigarettes (That says it, night time city scene where all the buildings have lighted Chesterfield signs), Colgate shaving cream (evolution of the comfort smile).

– Full page black and white ads for Miller Tires (Why 22,000 miles), Ruud automatic gas water heater, White Trucks (no art), Simmons Beds, Good Year cord tires (with photos and quote from J. W. Helwick of the San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation), Studebaker cars (Series 20 Big-Six, with all women), Chandler Six (Everybody likes the Chandler dispatch, with art by Glenn Shaw), Warren’s standard printing papers (Thumbprint of Goliath), United States Tires (Forty million tires for 1920).

– Cute half page art by Walter DeMaris of kids drilling holes in the fence around the baseball field, “Bud Smith’s Pa wonders what happened to his best bit.”

– Full page art or cartoon art by Gluyas Williams (The striker’s dream), Victor C. Anderson (Out of luck, young boy stuck in barber’s chair getting his hair cut as all his friends chase after the fire truck).

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Aren’t you ruining your eyesight?,” man reading by the light of “Mechanical Politics” and “Personal ambitions” while his wife reads by the better light of “National interests.”

– Some current events include : California primaries between Johnson and Hoover, Republican party is now two parties, England is reaching out all over the world after oil wells, Russia’s political museum is oversupplied with freaks, Legislation to abolish strikes that affect the necessaries of life or the great public utilites.

– Two thirds page ad for the Society of American Florists, “Say it with flowers,” art by Edward C. Caswell.

– And much, much more.