Life Magazine – November 2, 1905 (# 1201) – Thanksgiving Number

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Cover : A woman in what might be a hockey uniform with padded knee length pants and one shin guard, holding a pumpkin with Thanksgiving meal components behind, art by the excellent Henry Hutt.  Who knows this uniform?

– THANKSGIVING NUMBER.
– Quarter page ad for Marlin firearms, with art of a man in cowboy garb and a bear.
– Full page color ad for A de Villar y Villar cigars, Waldorf-Astoria opening a group of 75,000 that have been held in their humidors for one year.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (Which do you prefer, a house or a church wedding?), Horace Taylor (Snapshots from our airship : the village election), Bayard Jones (Little glimpses of married life : I knew you would suit my mother).
– Two page centerspread art by Raymond Moreau Crosby, The Crest of the Wave, Rich folk riding the boat to the top of the wave as poor folk drown in the trough behind them.
– Half page ad for Merode underwear, an interesting period ad.
– Some current events include : Jerome running for District Attorney of New York county, Harvard is complaining about football (see quote below), Investigations of Life insurance.
– “There is something the matter with a game that grows more uninteresting every year, that engrosses the attention of the undergraduate boy while its season lasts, and that requires the constant attention of skilled surgeons.  “”It is the testimony,” the Harvard Bulletin says, “Of a well-known surgeon who has coached football teams, that the human body is not fit to endure the game as it is played in the American colleges.””
– And much more 1905   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!