Life Magazine – August 1, 1918 (# 1866) – Nurse writing love letter for patient

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Cover : Slightly embarrassed nurse writing a love letter for an injured soldier who cannot write himself, “The Love Letter,” art by John Newton Hewitt.

– 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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