Life Magazine – October 3, 1918 (# 1875) – Mines in shipping lanes

Life Magazine – October 3, 1918 (# 1875) – Mines in shipping lanes

Cover : Chilling scene of large sailing ship approaching an unseen explosive mine through the fog, art by Anton Otto Fischer.

– Full page color ad for Victor Talking Machine Company.

– Full page black and white ads for US Government Bonds Fourth Liberty Loan (with Lady Liberty drawn by Charles Dana Gibson), Life subscriptions for soldiers, Fatima cigarettes (with Navy Officers), White trucks (with art of loggers, Speeding up Spruce production), New York Tribune (Verboten News).

– Full page art or cartoon art by F. T. Richards (September), Oliver Herford (Frightfulness, using the Davidson statue “France aroused” to frighten off the Teutons).

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson (Lady Liberty wading across the Atlantic with a freshly reaped sheaf of wheat for Europe, For them).

– Small photos of orphaned French children : Christiane Bois Baby 2618, Marie Baron Baby 2608, Louise Courtay Baby 2619, Songe Nicoleau Baby 2744, Octave Nedellec Baby 2616.

– Some current events include : St. Mihiel exploit (First and only offensive launched solely by the US in WWI, Saint-Mihiel Franch), Muddy on the Lorraine front, Serbians have the Bulgarians running in Macedonia, British have routed the Turks in Palestine, John W. Davis is our new ambassador to Great Britain, Cardinal Garley, Movies lie (Battle of San Juan Hill).

– It looks like the US participation in World War One was funded by citizens buying Liberty Bonds … quite different from wars now!

– Quarter page, irregularly shaped artwork by Alanson Burton Walker with a chilling theme, “new use for French and Belgian orphans,” German soldier in a trench holding them up to attract bullets, yikes!

– And much more 1918   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!