Life Magazine – September 28, 1916 (# 1770) – Dog Stealing Baseball

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Cover : Little boys scrambling over a fence trying to catch a dog which is running away (via a hole in the fence) with their baseball, art by John LaGatta, “The home run.”

– Full page color ads for Murad cigarettes (Gorgeous art of female dancer in butterfly costume with more butterflies on backdrop, Everywhere, Why?, not signed – who knows this artist?), Reo Motor Car company (two pages, green), Great White Fleet (Call of the Caribbean, with gull and parrot, not signed).
– Full page ads for Winton Company cars, Studebaker (all text), Mitchell cars, Everybody’s Magazine.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harrison Cady (two pages : Bread lines in Europe (poor people in line at soup kitchen) and America (rich people in line at restaurant), landscape format), Paul Reilly (Advertisements you have never seen).
– Small photos of French baby 107 Roger Cazaneuve, Baby 152 Andre Menetre and older brother.
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Every man to his taste,” young man gazing at young lady in library while old man looks at antique vase.
– Some current events include : Railroad strikes, Adamson bill, It will be quite a change to have railroad strikes forbidden by law.
– “In spite of all Mr. Wilson’s mistakes, the sum of his achievements is such as to make one wonder why anyone who owns less than three automobiles should vote for Hughes.”
– And much, much more.