Life Magazine – July 19, 1917 (# 1812) – Battleships Heading to Europe

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Cover : Battleships steaming through American-theme art, “Eastward, Ho!,” art by  Paul Stahr.  This is a very stirring and patriotic cover … I just wish it could be applicable to poor Ukraine!

– Full page color ads for Michelin Tires (neat gladiator art by Arthur N. Edrop), Woodbury’s Facial Soap.
– Full page ads for Lucky Strik cigarettes, Wlatham watches, Duratex (elegant ad), Republic Tires, Velvet tobacco (half page, Nice art with horse by Walter Haskell Hinton).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Alexander Popini (Women dressed in military uniforms (home guard?) having an elaborate picnic, “Isn’t war scrumptious?), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days, dyscouragying ye booke-agent), Charles Forbell (in ye goode olde days, ye fly-swatting crusade).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “The poisoned well,” Emperor Hohenzoller laughing as poor European child dies at well.
– Small photos of fatherless French children Baby 752 Albertine Lutz, Baby 1059 Marc Maingourd, Baby 313 Madeleine Gauchorin and her sister, Baby 793 Roger Hurtrait, Baby 787 Philomene Bondeau.
– Some current events include : Liberty Bonds were over-subscribed, Red Cross Fund was raised, We just don’t know much about how war preparations are going here, Prohibition, Political crisis in Germany, Government’s crop report included three billion bushels of corn.
– And much, much more.

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