Life Magazine – October 3, 1907 (# 1301) – Jack-O-Lantern

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Cover : Woman holding a Jack-o-Lantern, art by Orson Lowell.

– Full page color ad for Williams’ Shaving stick (mild color).

– Full page black and white ad for Chickering and Sons pianos.

– Full page art or cartoon art by F. T. Richards (September), Nesbitt Benson (Their rich uncle unexpectedly introduces his bride).

– Two page centerspread art by Harry Grant Dart (In the near future : congested traffic in upper Broadway … airships).

– A fresh start by Chesterton Todd.

– Some current events include : Governor Hughes makes very sensible discourses at the agricultural fairs which he has been visiting, The country is already heavily involved in the upcoming presidential election even though it is a year away, “Of all the Democrats that have been talked about, Johnson and Chanler seem the least repellant of possible votes.”

– “It was encouraging to read of the recent arrest of about a dozen of our fellow-citizens in Pennsylvania charged with criminal complicity in the stealings that made the furnishing of the new State Capitol so noisome a scandal. Of all the great states Pennsylvania is the rottenest.”

– Half page ad for the Melodant-Angelus piano-player (player piano) with super nice art.

– Cute half page artwork by George Watson Barratt showing a single man surrounded by women, “One of the dangers of a Naval career”

– And much more 1907   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!