Life Magazine – October 21, 1920 (# 1981) – Sporting Life – Fishing

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Cover : Two boys climbing through a fence next to a sign that says “No Fishing, No Hunting, Beware of the Bull,” “A Sporting Chance,” art by J. R. Shaver.

– SPORTING NUMBER.

– Full page color ads for Michelin universal cord tires (with huge Michelin man standing on pedestal like a statue), Rigaud Mary Garden perfume (art by A. D. Rahn), Columbia Grafonola (art of country dance with jack-o-lanterns, She dances such-a-way).

– Full page black and white ads for Chandler Motor Car Company (Chandler Six, with photos of Sedan inside and out), Ruud Automatic gas water heater (nice art that makes hot tap water look wonderful), Mimeograph (Forty thousand birds, Homing pigeons), Northern tissue, Warren’s standard printing papers (What the hand of the printer holds for you), Hansen gloves (tremendous stride in transportation),

– Full page art or cartoon art by J. R. Shaver (The guilty ones : father and son both playing hookey and fishing), Charles Dana Gibson (Just before she said yes, both parties look worried), Gluyas Williams (The nineteenth amendment in the home), Charles Forbell (If the employees of the weather bureau were to go on strike), H. T. Webster (Mother’s Pet Lamb : Mother is Cox, child is Slush Fund issue, Father is voter), Alfred Frueh (Man’s inhumanity to pigs, letting pig eat the picnic while he uses pig’s tail as a corkscrew),

– Two page centerspread art by Angus MacDonall, Labor and Capital come to a pleasant agreement, rich older Unsuccessful fisherman buying fish off a successful little boy while his guide is around the corner unaware).

– Some current events include : League of Nations, Presidential campaign, Final baseball series of the year have been queered by the dishonesty of some players, Cost of sugar has dropped to thirteen cents, Price of Henry Ford cars is going back to what they were before the war.

– “Do you want your country’s honor vindicated and the Treaty of Versailles ratified?”

– Cute smaller cartoon series where man moves stones to make artist’s signature visible, art by Nate Collier.

– And much, much more.