Life Magazine – September 3, 1908 (# 1349) – Speedboat, Marathoner Hawkins

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Cover : Speedboat passing by grand hotel at night, signed at shoreline but too faint to decipher.

– Beautiful full page color ad for Peerless motor cars, Silence Comfort, with the rock profile “Old Man of the Mountain” in New Hampshire.

– Full page black and white ads for Pierce Arrow cars (Gorgeous art by J. J. Gould), Chickering pianos.

– Quarter page ad for Iver Johnson safety automatic revolver, Hammer the hammer.

– Full page art or cartoon art by

– Two page centerspread art by Harry Grant Dart, Forecast of the next British Olympic games, Hawkins winning the marathon race for all England, being carried on stretcher with supplemental oxygen.

– Some current events include : Presidential election, Objection waning to having a Roman Catholic as a candidate, Mr. Harriman and Mr. Charles Morse.

– Every summer brings with it an increasing number of accidents to automobilists on railroad tracks.

– Cool half page artwork by Mark Fenderson, Sectional view of a New York street with subways below and airships above.

– And much more 1908   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!