Life Magazine – August 22, 1918 (# 1869) – 1,250,000 American men in Europe at war

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Cover : Soldier kissing young woman holding a hoe, “From producer to consumer,” art by David Robinson

– Full page color ad for Marmon 34 cars with olive green Closed Car on black background (on back cover, so can be rubbed).
– Full page ads for Robbins & Myers Motors (electrician’s friend), Locomobile, Franklin Automobile.
– Full page art or cartoon art by J. R. Shaver (Old man and young boy watching troop parade, It’s tougher on you than it is one me, Gran’pa), Charles Dana Gibson (Convincing a Prussian), Robert L. Dickey (Dogs in war).
– Two page centerspread art by Harrison Cady, The Spirit of Paul Jones.
– Small photos of fatherless French children, Baby 1931 Felix Debiesse, Baby 2344 Henriette Erre, Baby 2606 and 2605 Louise Provost and Gabrielle Provost.
– Some current events include : Life in this country with a million and a quarter of our useful young men in Europe is not as lively as one might wish, Mr. Paul Warburg asks not to be reappointed to the Federal Reserve Board because he was born in Germany.
– And much, much more.