Life Magazine – August 12, 1915 (# 1711) – Unexploded Mine and Children

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Cover : Absolutely excellent (if chilling) scene of three small Dutch children who are inspecting a giant unexploded mine that has washed up on the beach, “The sea monster,” art by Anton Otto Fischer.

– Full page color White Company motor cars ad with interesting and unusual art, not signed, Purple car on vaguely oriental background with lots of floating yellow oriental lanterns.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (Oh, George, you’ve broken your promise!), P. L. Crosby (Every Boy’s Ambition … nearly full page, boy driving Fire Fighting wagon), William H. Walker (Peace, his monomania), Mark Fenderson (If it suddenly became known that gold had been discovered in the neighborhood), Reginald Bathhurst Birch (landscape format : Fashions in figures).
– Odd half page ad for Remington repeating shotguns with dressed bear cubs and grouse, art by Lynn Bogue Hunt.
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson (Tragic Moments : his train leaves in twenty minutes and this is his last chance).
– Some current events include : No doubt the Germans will be in Warsaw before this issue of Life reaches its readers, Dardanelles still closed, Italy hammering at Austria, Pope Benedict has spoken up for peace.
– Full page color Pierce Arrow car ad with reed-like background like the Rameses ads in 1915, this art by Myron Perley.
– And so much more!  Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!