Life Magazine – May 7, 1914 (# 1645) – Fools Number

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Cover : Scarecrow tipping his hat to shy maiden hoeing the field, “The Masher,” art by Victor C. Anderson.

– FOOL’S NUMBER (a fat issue).

– Full page COLOR ads for Fatima Turkish cigarettes (with art of serving tea and cake), Vanity Fair magazine (with reproduction in color of the May 1914 cover, women in puffy pink skirt and white outfit), Baker Electrics motor vehicles.

– Full page ads for Hudson Motor cars, Fisk Rubber company (with nice art of man and dog in car (signed but illegible), Columbia Graphophone, Kelly-Springfield tires, Gray & Davis Starting – Lighting systems, Willys-Overland automobiles.

– Neat half page Westinghouse Electric ad with photo of Pierce-Arrow car driving through a huge tree in the Yosemite grove.

– Nice quarter page ad for Indian motorcycles.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Rodney Thomson (the path of glory), F. T. Richards (April).

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Serious business,” couples dancing.

– Some current events include : Banquet of the American Society of International Law, Mexican troubles, Huerta and Villa, William Hearst has mines in Mexico, A close likeness to civil war in Colorado (a thousand armed miners and the State militia have been fighting).

– “What a jolt it was to all complacent minds to have our ships fire actual missiles at Mexico, and send our actual sailors ashore to capture Vera Cruz.”

– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1914 content – fun!