Life Magazine – September 23, 1915 (# 1717) – First Girlfriend

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Cover : Little boy and toddler girl eye each other as the share a park bench, “His first affair,” art by RAY.

– Full page color ads for Vanity Fair magazine (with October 1915 cover), Bull Durham tobacco (with nice art of two couples playing billiards).

– Full page black and white ads for Willard storage battery, Fisk non-skid tires (with nice art by Denman Fink), Locomobile (The locomobile and its owner), Denby Trucks (with nice art of J. J. Quill Fuel & Transfer truck), Johnnie Walker Red Label whiskey (art of men horseback riding by Leo Cheney), United States Tires.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Birch (What did she say that tickled the Parson so immensely?), Harry Grant Dart (once upon a time Spain had one of these, too), William H. Walker (two pages, He who friends would have, himself must friendly be), Elsie Rand (A movie story), Orson Lowell (Popular conceptions : happy days in the home of a minister of the gospel),

– Life’s short story contest : Just a pal by Elsie D. Knisely, The answer by Harry Stillwell Edwards, The Black Door by Gordon Seagrove.

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson (Tragic moments : the one night a week that he dines at home, he is asleep in his chair as his pretty young wife looks sadly at him).

– Some current events include : Henry Ford’s ten-million-dollar peace offer, Charles Steinmetz, Detaching the Austrian ambassador from his duties in the US, If we get into the war it will be because the Teutonic allies drag us in.

– And much, much more.