Life Magazine – February 28, 1918 (# 1844) – Dogs in war effort

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Cover : Mother dog looking at the service flag / banner over her dog house, her son in France, art by Robert L. Dickey.

– Full page color ads for Lexington Minute Man Six car (art not signed but lovely, little boy playing the drum for the driver, house in back), Marmon 34 Cars (lovely gold car against black background, not signed), Columbia Grafonola.
– Full page ads for Locomobile, Life magazine subscriptions, Robbins & Myers Motors, Weed Chain-Jack (art by Farkas), Packard Motor Cars (no art).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harry Grant Dart (The Hot-air raid), Harrison Cady (The widow’s mite), Fred G. Cooper (page and a half, A day in the diary of an enemy alien).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, Mugged: for the rogues’ gallery, Lady History taking a photo of Mr. Autocracy while Lady Democracy makes him face the camera.
– Small photos of fatherless French children, Baby 1922 Linette Desgrange on a donkey, Baby 1833 Roger Brunet with his sister.
– Half page artwork by Walter de Maris, Teacher talking to her young Sunday school class, “Can you tell me who it is that is always watching even little children? (Child laborer) The Foreman.”
– Some current events include : We cannot help win the war at present by brooding over specific conditions of peace or the principles that must shape them, Samuel Harden Church of Pittsburg.
– And much, much more.