– Full page color ad for Pall Mall, “Friends.”
– Full page black and white ads for Macbeth Lens (auto headlamps … Macbeth Lens complies with laws, does not imperil with blinding glare), Mimeograph,
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harry Grant Dart (United States Ordinance Department humor), F. T. Richards (January), Rea Irvin (A day in the life of a German reservist), Gluyas Williams (Vaudeville Troupes could be good at the war front), Charles Forbell (Now that eggs are scarce, why not breed larger fowls?).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “The hand of God,” battlefield scene with Hand pointing at cowering German.
– Some current events include : Members of the Cabinet should be chosen from Congress and allowed to retain their seats; Stories of army mismanagement have been painful; Too many good young lives have been lost by cold, lack of clothing and incompetent and negligent treatment of sick men; Most of the troubles of our camps have come from repeated speeding up of our military program; We currently have 15,000 Marines in the area of Tampico ready for whatever is getting ready to pop in Mexico.
– Excellent but sad half page cartoon by Rodney Thomson pertaining to Red Cross giving money to vivisectionists for experimenting on live animals.
– Small photos of French war orphans : The Begue children with Jean (Baby 99), The Dufournet family with Germaine (1773).
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1918 content – fun!

The post Life Magazine – February 7, 1918 (# 1841) – Love Aloft appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page with-color ad for Victor Records, world’s great catalog of music.
– Lovely half page ad for Eno’s Fruit Salt with great art of a woman on skis, not signed.
– Full page black and white ads for Mimeograph (clean hands), Pantasote Top Material for cars.
– FUNNY! Quarter page artwork by R. B. Fuller of a destroyer with a spotlight on a sub, one of the crew on the deck of the sub is bowing, “The Herr Lieutenant, formerly with the Berlin Royal Opera, forgets himself for the moment.”

– Full page art or cartoon art by William H. Walker (two pages : The roll-call of sons, half shows German officers in a roll call line, the other half shows a grieving mother in front of a row of graves), Rodney Thomson (German leader telling his underling to be more careful pouring German blood).
– Small photo of French war orphan Alphonse Le Roy, Baby 1787.
– Great half page comic artwork by Alex Sass, “Did you take all these prisoners yourself?” “Yes, Sir. I wouldn’t ‘a’done it, sir, only I’d run out o’ ammunition.”
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “The hopeful doctor,” Lady Liberty and Uncle Sam at the bedside of the “New Russia.”
– Some current events include : Our efforts to get into the war; How many troops do we really have in Europe?; Colonel Lewis trying to get his machine gun into the fight and General Crozier trying to keep it out; Fewer wails about the Navy than any other of our war branches; We want more facts about war things.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1918 content – fun!

The post Life Magazine – January 3, 1918 (# 1836) – Police Crackdown appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Columbia Grafonola (art by ERS, different kinds of people doing a line dance of sorts), Bevo (The Beverage, with fox hunting and pheasant hunting theme), Pall Mall cigarettes (for Auld Lang Syne).

– Extremely charming half page ad for Eno’s Fruit Salt, with mother and two children in a train compartment.

– Full page black and white ads for Life magazine (next week’s Navy Number), Clicquot Club Ginger Ale, Mimeograph (Woman power! With photo of a woman working at a typewriter), Eastman Kodak (odd two page anti-German ad).

– Odd quarter page photo of glum looking boys at Life’s Fresh Air Farm, “Conspirators.”

– Full page art or cartoon art by Rodney Thomson (Their boy in France, how the different members of the family imagine him in the war), Rea Irvin (Who’s Who in Russia, landscape format), Charles Dana Gibson (With our boys), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days : waytyng for ye ferrie).

– Two page centerspread art by William H. Walker, “1935 or thereabouts, another visit unless the job is finished now,” a chillingly accurate prediction of the second world war WWII.

– Small photos of French orphans Marie Therese Glandut (# 2400) and her brother, Yvonne Rannon (# 2495) with mother and sister, Constance Garnier (# 2364) with her brother.

– Some current events include : A million men in France is a good beginning, 89 ships, The Italian victory, Belgians in Belgium are still being executed by the dozen by their German rulers, Should we go to the aid of Russia?, Advertisements for the Morman church, Germans have shown some symptoms of politeness to Americans in the U-boat raids, National Security League.

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

The post Life Magazine – July 4, 1918 (# 1862) – War Games appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Lexington Motor Company (Lexington Minute Man Six, nice art of car, plane and people on beach, not signed), Pall Mall cigarettes (Shipmates, with port hole and other nautical stuff).

– Cute little artwork by Paul Reilly of dog looking at mounted skeleton of dinosaur, “Well, well! This must be his meatless Tuesday.”

– Full page black and white ads for Miller Rubber Company (Miller Tires, If ever one comes back I am penalized (says the worker, poor guy!)), White Company (Expressive of a permanent ideal, New York home of the White Motor Car Company), Resinol soap (signed with an illegible triangular glyph).

– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (Thoughts on glory, skeletal jailer and despondent German), Charles Forbell (in ye goode olde days : ye olde clothes man), Ellison Hoover (two pages, why not emply Americans?), Harry Grant Dart (Again the Barbarian visits Italy).

– Two page COLOR centerspread art by Rea Irvin, The home wonderful – art in everything.

– Some current events include : Trotzky peace maneuvers, Count Gzernin, Peace talks have not included enough yet, Coal troubles, Distribution of coal in the US, Congressman Gillette of Massachusetts, Colonel Roosevelt advocates for universal military training as our permanent national policy.

– Small photo of fatherless French child Suzanne Bertrand, Baby 1358.

–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1918 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!

The post Life Magazine – January 10, 1918 (# 1837) – War Souvenirs appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– AVIATION NUMBER (much pertaining to flight, flying, pilots, airplanes and airships).

– Full page color ad for Woodbury Facial soap (with art).

– Full page black and white ads for Biddle Motor Car Company (in the training camps or at the front …), Nujol for constipation (Standard Oil Company), Packard Motor Car Company (all text), Republic Tires, Federal Tires (with photo of crowded Fifth Avenue in New York City), Macbeth Lens (two pages, car headlights with green hoods).

– Full page art or cartoon art by E. N. Clark (Deutschland uber Allies : why stop with the earth?), F. T. Richards (two pages, a review of 1917), Charles Dana Gibson (Uncle Sam with a noose around the neck of Hohenzollern, Peace Preliminaries), Harrison Cady (A busy morning with the Beetleburgh fliers … cute aviation art)

– Two page centerspread art by Harry Grant Dart (Really excellent spread of cool aircraft, 1920?).

– Some current events include : Building ships and sending troops to France are big business right now, National coal bargains, Censored stories from the front in the local newspapers.

– Small photos of fatherless French children : Leon Perignon (Baby 775), Lucie Chevaux (Baby 655), Germaine Chevaux (Baby 654) and their sister, Albert Jean Lappart (Baby 1674) and his sister Clementine Lappart.

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – January 17, 1918 (# 1838) – Aviation and flying appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Michelin Tires (an actual test of tube life), Pantasote (sepia tone, car roofing material, Down the avenue of palms), Prudential Insurance Company (buy Liberty Bonds), Templar Motors Corporation (The superfine small car, yellow and brown car on light sage green background), Velvet Tobacco (the barred zone).

– Full page black and white ads for Reed & Barton (jewelers and silversmiths, nice art of tea party, not signed), Miller Rubber Company (Miller tires, 99 Millers in 100 outrun guarantees), American Chain Company (Weed Tire chains, reflections after the skidding accident, nice art, not signed), Chandler Six Motor Cars (art by RFH).

– Full page art or cartoon art by Rodney Thomson (In the Spring, a young Hun’s fancy … German soldier holding a young woman by the hair in a conquered village).

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, Above the Din : Labor, four working men shaking hands above the carnage of war.

– Small photos of fatherless French children : Raymonde Darras (Baby 852), Paulette Bengue (Baby 1237), Renee Berthelot (Baby 2198).

– Some current events include : Charlie Chaplin has been drafted, Count Czernin has resigned, Senator William Joel Stone of Missouri has died, Haig and Foch seem to be holding the Germans, Stocks are up a little, We are several months behind in production of ships and airplanes, Mayor Hylan of New York is trying to harm city government, George Creel.

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – April 25, 1918 (# 1852) – Cowgirl in Spring appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Red Cross War Fund (Humanity’s Light), Columbia Grafonola Graphophone company.

– Full page black and white ads for Locomobile, Life magazine subscriptions (Compulsory subscription conscription), Waltham Chronometer (Timing the world’s journey around the sun), White Company Cars (the sedan), Timken Detroit axles, Pierce-Arrow cars.

– Full page art or cartoon art by F. T. Richards (April), Harry Grant Dart (Rich enemy being held in luxurious conditions, “I blew up three munition plants, burned a few docks and managed to get a transport sunk), Alexander Popini (Sergeant, you’ve got to make them stop this talking in the ranks … women in uniform).

– Life magazine encourages donors to send $200 worth of Liberty Bonds, which will earn an annual income of $8.50 which is enough to send a poor child to Life’s Fresh Air Camp every summer.

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, Lady Germany blindfolded and being encouraged to drink from the bloody cup of war, The Road to Ruin.

– Some current events include : The ship St. Paul (newly repaired) tipped over at her pier, Heartening News that Mr. Schwab is appointed as boss shipbuilder and Mr. Ryan as manager of airplane construction, Things are going well in the war against submarines, William Edenborn of Louisiana.

– Small photos of fatherless French children : Renee Franot (Baby 2542), Elie Bouisson (Baby 2135), Yvette Legrand (Baby 2528), Georges Chande (Baby 1937), Henriette Bondenet (Baby 1987).

– “The Germans continue to drive in on the Western front where they are accessible to the Allies and can be killed with least inconvenience. They are being killed in very large numbers.”

–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1918 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!

The post Life Magazine – May 9, 1918 (# 1854 ) – Liberty Bonds appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Fisk Tires (excellent red, black and green art by Maxfield Parrish, Fit for a King), Rameses cigarettes (week end tins), Eastman Kodak (The Kodak Letter, the star in the window tells the story).

– Full page black and white ads for Miller Rubber Company (Tiredom’s Great Feat – the uniform cord), Nujol for constipation, Victrola Victor Records, Republic Tires, McClure’s magazine (Down with the Kaiser!, art by W. T. Benda), Red Cross War Fund (Greatest mother in the world, art by Alonzo Earl Foringer).

– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days, Ye Lord of ye Manor … wife berating the Lord), Charles Dana Gibson (Portrait of an old gentleman who evidently has a nephew “over there” … handing money to a Red Cross nurse), Rodney Thomson (Ye have done it unto me, German soldiers being berated by God (?) over the corpse of a nurse they killed),

– Small photos of fatherless French children : Mardochee Halimi (Baby 2114), Suzanne Bissonier (Baby 857), Juliette Hauret (Baby 864, Odette Arnol (Baby 2150), Henriette Sparfel (Baby 215).

– Two page centerspread art by Harrison Cady (Forward! That the spirit of liberty shall not pass forever from this earth, Abraham Lincoln watching troops march on).

– Some current events include : Democracy has not yet reached its goal for airplanes, Liberty motors, Rumors of swindling and profiteering, French trainer Captain Heurtaux, Browning machine guns, Ships really seem to be coming along hopefully, Anti-British and anti-war activity of the Roman Catholic priests and bishops in Ireland and Quebec.

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – May 16, 1918 (# 1855) – Maxfield Parrish – Liberty & Armed Forces appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Michelin Tires and Tubes (price), Rameses cigarettes (the welcome guest), Pall Mall cigarettes (Over there, with some kind of gun belt).

– Public service piece from the Committee on Public Information, Spies and Lies, German agents are everywhere.

– Full page black and white ads for United States Tires (Production methods that insure tire economy), Nujol for constipation, Victor Records, Franklin Automobile Company.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (Lady Liberty leading ships across the ocean, The Transports), Harrison Cady (landscape format, modern soldier being startled by vision of Napoleon, In the smoke of a Flanders campfire), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days, ye theologycalle argumente), R. B. Fuller (After the war : the first German traveling salesman lands in America), Charles Dana Gibson (The Same Old Trick, Autocracy playing the shell game with Russia).

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Broughton, We Fought for Liberty – You against it, famous military persons from history facing German soldier at the River Styx.

– Small photos of fatherless French children : Emile Giraud (Baby 2320), Anna Gourion (Baby 2445) with mother and siblings, Paul Devin (Baby 2088) with his four brothers, Henri Guschmerre (Baby 1941) with his two brothers.

– Some current events include : Small gains by Germans in the war won via a very large cost of German lives, Irvin S. Cobb, U-boats haven’t sunk anything very hurtful yet, Big wheat crop, Big US Army growing rapidly, We have already sent 700,000 men to the war in Europe, The Kaiser has made himself half brother to Satan, Randall amendment to the Food Survey Bill.

– Andrew Carnegie is a pauper compared to John D. Rockefeller, Benedict Arnold is a popular hero compared to Senator La Follette.

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – June 20, 1918 (# 1860) – Fishermen with mine in net appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Murad Turkish cigarettes (sailor helping female swimmer with her wrap, What is more irresistible than Murad?), Rameses cigarettes, Clicquot Club Ginger Ale (Eskimo child sitting in grassy meadow, Every quaffing of Clicquot Club Ginger Ale is a little picnic in itself).

– Full page black and white ads for Mimeograph (Mail-power!).

– Small photo of kids in the swimming pool at Life’s Fresh Air Farm.

– Full page art or cartoon art by J. R. Shaver (As the flag passes, “Will ye please take me hat off, lady?”, boy with his hands full at a military parade), Ellison Hoover (two pages, Germany and Der Next war (mit Austria)), Angus MacDonall (landscape format : Bowling Green, what the horse saw), Donald McKee (A tour of the world in 80 hours (many people on a huge airplane)), Charles Forbell (Little Bobbie’s idea of how a cashier balances his books), Rea Irvin (A compendium of timely information : how to think yourself up a hill).

– Small photos of fatherless French children : Marcel Jacquile (Baby 2604) and his mother, Madeleine Didat (Baby 639), Antoine and Claude Beney (Babies 2159 and 2418) with their brother and sister.

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, Now Italy, Italian soldier getting ready to bayonet the Kaiser (militarism and Autocracy).

– Some current events include : Our soldiers in France are very conscientious about meeting their goals, Dr. Ludendorff, Rupprecht is rushing troops to help the German Crown Prince, Republican convention at Saratoga largely attended and bossed by ladies, William Hearst candidacy, Women’s votes in the next election.

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

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The post Life Magazine – August 1, 1918 (# 1866) – Nurse writing love letter for patient appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.