Life Magazine – November 5, 1908 (# 1358) – Upset Cook

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Cover : Young couple snuggling by the light of a Jack-o-Lantern, art by Victor C. Anderson.

– Full page color ad for Stoddard-Dayton Motor Car Company, Model 9F. 45 HP, $2500.
– Full page black and white ads for Packard Motor Car Company (Packard “Thirty” – looks like an open air bus with a canopy top), American Vacuum Cleaner Company with good art, Chickering Pianos, Gillette safety razor.
– Curious half page ad for Lowney’s chocolates, chosen as the National Candy by the US government.
– Nice 2/3 page ad for the California Limited, Santa Fe railroad, art by Newman, possibly C E H Newman.
– Interesting 3 page long story (fiction, I think) about a jewel thief “When money was tight” by Spot Cash.
– Cool 2/3 page ad for Shasta-Northern Pacific route, Northern Pacific railroad, with photo of huge log on two railroad cars.
– Really odd poem by Rupert Hughes about not getting fat, “I beg you to bant.”
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harrison Cady, “The original Thanksgiving dinner in old Plymouth,” bears eating the spread as pilgrims cling up in a tree.
– Two page centerspread art by John A. Williams, “The lull before the storm,” man and wife timidly preparing to knock on kitchen door, behind which lies chaos and a drunken cook.
– Some current events include : This Life should reach you on Election day; Uncle Joe Cannon of Illinois; Methodist Church and the anti-rum bill; Charles Eliot Norton is dead.

– And much more 1908   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!