Life Magazine – October 12, 1916 (# 1772) – Don’t Pick the Flowers

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Cover : Charming little girl presenting policeman with flowers, next to the sign “Do not pick these flowers”, art by Crawford Young.

– Pretty full page color Great White Fleet ad for ship travel to the Caribbean.
– Full page Ohio Electric car company ad, Toledo,Ohio.
– Full page White Limousine ad, the White Company.
– Artists and cartoonists include F. Foster Lincoln, Rodney Thomson, W. O. Wilson, G. B. Inwood, Paul Reilly, Sullivant, Angus MacDonall, C. Barnes, Otho Cushing, Will Vawter, Donald McKee, Rea Irvin (two pages – the beach party), Robert L. Dickey, Wm. H. Walker (full page), Power O’Malley, Marcus, F. G. Cooper, A. B. Walker, P. L. Crosby, Ellison Hoover, and others.
– Two page center spread art by Charles Dana Gibson, Tragic moments (guests waiting for dinner that STILL hasn’t been announced).
– Professor Frank Dempster Sherman dies September 19.
– Omnia Vanitas, epic poem by F. G. Hartswick.
– The line-up of independents.
– Swarthmore College and immodesty.
– Advertisements you have never seen.
– Current topics include Political speeches, Wilson, Roosevelt, Eliot, Hughes, suffrage and more.
– Life readers help 400 French babies to a better life.
– The deal that never came off, or business life in the great city.
– Full page Franco-American soups ad, including Ox tail thick, Mutton broth, Mulligatawny, and more.
– Full page Simplex chassis ad, car chassis.
– Full page ad for the Republican Party.
– Half page Anola sugar wafers ad.
– Full page color Richmond Straight Cut cigarettes ad, art by Herb Roth.
– Full page color Pierce-Arrow car ad with woman in fancy dress (no car) – I believe the artist is C. Coles Phillips, but it is not signed.
– And so much more!  Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!