Life Magazine – November 14, 1918 (# 1881) – German submarines sinking ships

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Cover : Dog barking at German submarine, he is the last survivor on a wrecked sailing ship, “The Irish of it,” art by Anton Otto Fischer.

– Full page color ads for Marmon cars (with two tone brown car, driver’s seat is open art, back seat is enclosed), Fatima cigarettes (Big hotel with flags of France, USA, Britain, signed but not quite legible, might be H. Dewitt –dd, who knows this artist?
– Half page YMCA ad with photo of Earl Balleu giving chocolate and smokes to two sentries at an advanced listening post in the war.
– Full page ads for Lucky Strike cigarettes (use more eggs, save meat), Life magazine subscription, Waltham watches (why Korea came to Waltham for time), Victor Victrola (The life of home – the joy of camp),  Locomobile (no art).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Rea Irvin (Come home to roost, the Kaiser as a vulture), Fred G. Cooper (Cartoonlets), Charles Dana Gibson (Pruning Germany off the tree of democracy), R. B. Fuller (Peace talks … ongoing war scene).
– Cute half page art by Birch, soldier surrounded by young ladies, “His Fiancee’s idea of the risks to which he is subjected over there.”
– Two page centerspread art by Harrison Cady, The last Review, Kaiser and a few German officers walking between legions of skeletal dead soldiers.
– Small photos of fatherless French children, Baby 871 Pauline Pales, Baby 2675 Yvonne Quintard, Baby 2984 Madeleine Laurendeau and her cousins, Baby 2881 Raymond Gouttenegre.
– Some current events include : It is Anything-May-Happen week, Potential armistice at Versailles, Judge Hughes’ report on airplane productions, Opening of the Dardanelles will provide relief for Russia.
– Armistice terms relate only to military matters, and provide means for a beaten army to quit without being killed.  The arrangement of territorial and other details goes over to a peace tribunal.
– And so much more!  1918 Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!