Life Magazine – October 29, 1896 (# 722) – Tandem

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Cover : Couple on a tandem bicycle, only the man is peddling, “Nine miles from home and he has just been rejected,” art by Otto Toaspern.  2Neat loves this cover!

– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (landscape format, Two blind women, one begging with a BLIND sign, one getting married), F. G. Attwood (October)
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, Trial by Jury, jury is a row of Life cupids.
– Wonderful seven part artwork showing how to document a big fish story so it is believed, art by Kemble.
– Some current events include : Boston Art Commission decided that Mr. Macmonnies’s dancing Bacchante is unsuited to the Public Library, New York Police are not good, New York World publication.
– OK, here is a word I have never seen : Myrmidon.  It means “a follower or subordinate of a powerful person, typically one who is unscrupulous or carries out orders unquestioningly.”
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!