Life Magazine – July 27, 1916 (# 1761) – Boys Playing Sailor

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Cover : Little boys pretending to be in the Navy, “The Naval Reserve,” Signed but not quite legible, in a box.

– Full page color ads for Milo cigarettes (Swimming Pool Training, manly mostly-nude men, art by Otho Cushing), Cole Motor Cars (OMG, lovely, people and car reflecting in a pool.  Not signed – who knows this artist?), McCallum Silk Hosiery (Great sepia tone art by Marjorie C. Woodbury, woman diving off cliff).
– Full page ads for Dann Shock Absorbers, Pathfinder Company cars, Studebaker cars, Mitchell-Lewis Motor company cars (art by T. C. Weld).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Robert L. Dickey (Say, Mex! Don’t start anything you can’t finish … line of bandaged-up dogs facing unscathed Chihuahua dog heavily armed), Charles Forbell (if we permitted ourselves to be governed by the impulse of the moment, misbehaving in the street), Charles Dana Gibson (A tragic moment for Smyth (who married for a home) …), C. A. Voight (The theorist, swimming lessons, stuck in mud).
– Still apt: Family getting ready to go on car trip, commenting on the fine weather, father sees only one cloud, the Mortgage hanging over the house, art by Will Vawter.
– Two page centerspread art by William H. Walker, Rich congressmen laughing over Pork bills, while poor military drags along, “Where the money goes.”
– Small photos of French Baby 71 Raymonde Allanic and sister Suzanne, Baby 72 Lucien Bailles.
– Some current events include : Arrival of the big German submarine in Baltimore, Tug named after Thomas F. Timmins of Pearl Street, Guarding the border with Mexico.
– “Meanwhile, the war-map which Chancellor Hollweg lately suggested as a basis of peace negotiations is not so flattering to German aspirations as it was.”
– And much, much more.