Life Magazine – May 17, 1917 (# 1803) – First Aid Dog

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Cover : A dog in the war effort wearing a Red Cross coat, art by Robert L. Dickey.

– Full page color ads for Fisk Red Tops tires (Just excellent art by Paul Stahr of two women talking to each other from their separate cars), Ramses cigarettes (with great art of camel and pyramids, signed but I can’t tell the name), Eastman Kodak (photo of woman taking a photo from a car).
– Full page black and white ads for Reed & Barton silversmiths, Encyclopaedia Britannica (two pages of fine type list of all the places to buy a set), Victrola Talking Machine, Republic Tires, Bull Durham smoking tobacco (with photo of five officers of the New York’s 7^th Regiment on the Mexican border),
– Full page art or cartoon art by F. Foster Lincoln (you allow your daughter to smoke?), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days – ye fyshynge season openeth), Harry Grant Dart (two full pages, The uprising of a great people : we may be emotional, but it’s the spirit that counts), Crawford Young (If chivalry obtained to-day), United States Tires (with neat art).
– Wonderful half page artwork by Marcus of three musicians attempting to learn the Star Spangled Banner, “Another tragedy of the war : the German band is forced to put in a new line of music.”
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Spring Plowing,” Lady Democracy dragging Autocracy through a field with his heels digging trenches.
– Small photos of French orphans : Simonne Dandry (Baby 1102), Jean Guyoux (959), Francoise Levet (15), Lucien Chaumont (1156), Henri Chocteau (110), Jean Lalanne (1174, on separate page).
– Some current events include : Thinking about the Lusitania which sunk two years ago; German U-Boats; USA streets are bright with Allied colors; Impossibility of getting proper army legislation out of the lately deceased Congress; Colonel Roosevelt’s army.
– And much, much more.