Life Magazine – September 23, 1909 (# 1404) – C. Coles Phillips – Suffrage

– SUFFRAGETTE NUMBER (much on women voting and such).
– Full page ads for Prudential Insurance, Brewster car bodies on Delaunay-Belleville chassis for Peerless Motor Cars.
– Half page cartoon art by Wm. H. Walker pertaining to first man to reach the North Pole, Peary vs. Cook, “Prove it if you can.”
– The Hippodrome has a large group of Maori people as part of a show, included in the magazine are two photos (or extraordinarily precise art) of the Maori men and women.
– Full page color ad for Baker Electric Vehicles with nice art of four ladies, two inside and two entering, clearly a woman will drive, art not signed.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harrison Cady (The Demon of intemperance reaches Beetleburg).
– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell, Election Day : Phyllis and Mamma go a-voting and are outvoted ten to one, Ladies arguing in the line to the Polling Place.
– Some current events include : Henry Hudson as described by Diedrich Knickerbocker, Sensational airplane flights of last year, Peary versus Cook and the discovery of the North Pole, Dr. Cook’s ascent of Mt. McKinley has never seemed to all the experts as convincing, Death of Harriman.
– And much, much more.