Life Magazine – December 21, 1916 (# 1782)

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Cover : Old man baker (current year) sending New Year’s cherub out into the snow to deliver a huge Christmas cake that is the world, “Think you can manage it, Sonny?,” art by Angus MacDonall.

– Full page color Willys Knight Touring Sedan ad (blue car, lady in fancy coat tipping young boy.  This winter – next summer), Murad Turkish cigarettes ad (great art of Uncle Sam and Christmas theme, not signed), Richmond Straight Cut cigarettes ad (Ice skating art by Herb Roth).
– Full page ads for Winton Six cars, Locomobile Cars (Winter exhibitions), Studebaker cars.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Leo Cheney (Johnnie Walker Red Label whiskey ad), Harrison Cady (The beautiful snow reaches our village), George Watson Barratt (two pages : Games of chance … gambling, gold prospecting, fishing, marriage), Charles A. Voight (The theorist : lighting a fire).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, The desire to join the Allies seizes Mr. Swallow.
– Small photos of French babies Gabrielle Bourreau (# 30), Alert Buisson (# 296) and Roland Lefevre (# 143).
– Some current events include : Liebknecht is not yet Chancellor of Germany and he is in jail now for crying “peace” before Germany was ready, English premier Lloyd George is a dictator in all but name, Total American assets listed as $320 Billion by Currency Controller John Shelton Williams, Folks in the western part of the USA don’t give nearly as much to the war effort as the east, The ships Marina and Arabia have been sunk without the formalities agreed upon by the German government.
– And much, much more.