Life Magazine – October 7, 1915 (# 1719)

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Cover : Woman cooking her supper over a campfire as (unknown to her) a Native American Indian approaches in his canoe, “Dinner for Two,” art by Power O’Malley.

– Full page color ads for Willys Knight Coupe with Noiseless Motor (nice art of dark blue car with two ladies driving in it, with horse, woman, and boy standing by outside it), Milo Egyptian cigarettes (with statues of Venus di Milo, perfect from every point of view), Baker Electrics Rauch & Lang Electric cars (lovely art signed with a glyph that looks like a man driving a carriage, who knows the name of this artist??).

– Full page black and white ads for Victrola (Caruso listening to himself), Aeolian-Vocalion phonograph (two pages, in the firelight glow), Alois P. Swoboda, Johnnie Walker Red Label Whiskey (art by Leo Cheney, non-refillable bottles), Velvet smoking tobacco, Gorham silversmiths and goldsmiths.

– Half page ad for Santa Fe railroad with very nice photo of white lady holding Native American child in a papoose carrier.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Forbell (As it seems when Wifie takes the wheel, female drivers), F. T. Richards (September), Charles Dana Gibson (Tragic moments : discovering you are in love with the man you have just rejected), Unsigned (COLOR portrait of a bulldog, One of Us, looks like work of Will Rannells or Carlton Smith), B. Cory Kilvert (COLOR, Slavery and Freedom, poor white child working while rich black child walks by), C. W. Kahles (landscape format, If our mental and physical growth were proportionate).

– Two page centerspread art by Angus MacDonall (Peace, dead soldiers laying in a field).

– Life’s short story contest : Faithful to the end by Clair W. Perry, The Woman in the Case by Mary Sams Cooke

– Two small but wide PHOTOS, one of the Wayburn Chorus girls and one “In the subway at the Century.”

– Some current events include : German war machine, News from Russia is better, Bulgaria has mobilized, We would least rather be in the Balkans, New Yorkers voting on the new constitution.

– “There is a theory that when once the Germans begin to cave in they will go like a subway section, whole blocks at a time.”

– And much more 1915   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!