Life Magazine – October 13, 1887 (# 250) – Being Rich isn’t Everything

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Cover : Prayer and oyster humor, art by Stephen Van Schaick.

– Artists and cartoonists include M. Woolf, R. F. Bunner, Chip, A. L. Brennan, C. D. Gibson, Baron C. De Grimm, and others.
– Two page center spread art by Van, The Realization (rich life isn’t all you imagine).
– Current topics include Thackeray letters, Annual meeting of the American board, baseball, Count Tolstoi and Christianity, more derogatory comments about PUNCH, black sheep of British aristocracy and more.
– Marvelously Mated, poem by J. P. Lyons.
– Mr. Lew Vanderpoole’s sand bank seems to have suspended payment.
– Mr. Wilton’s adventure, chapter 3.
– More about the America’s cup race.
– Small ad for the Anchor Stone Building Box toy, like early Legos.
– Lovely small Haviland china ad with illustration of tureen.
– And more.