Life Magazine – November 9, 1916 (# 1776) – Death of Man with Harem

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Cover : Charming scene (though not a charming topic) with one befuddled military man in the middle of a crowd of harem-type women, “Breaking the news to a Turkish friend’s widow,” art by Paul Stahr.

– Full page color ads for The Great White Fleet (The call of the Caribbean, with art including Toucans), Fatima cigarettes (nice ad in mostly blue and white).
– Some of the other full page ads : White Company cars (with nice art by Teale, includes artist’s glyph that looks like crossed angle irons), Franco-American soups, The Hollenden hotel in Cleveland (half page, includes photo of the Red Room).
– Advertisements you have never seen, such as Shakemupp Shock-absorbers.
– Full page art or cartoon art by G. B. Inwood (Bachelors’ job in Hades : pushing baby carriage full of devil babies up a never ending hill).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, A review of the summer campaign, young lady day-dreaming about all her conquests.
– Small photo of Andre Colin, baby number 27, his father and his widowed mother  (aid to war orphans).
– Some current events include : A large proportion of the voters are trying to forgive themselves for voting as they did, There were very persuasive reasons against voting for either candidate (Wilson and Hughes), Bandits in Mexico.
– “There probably never was a presidential election in this country in which so many voters voted for a man they didn’t want.”
– And so much more!  Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!