Life Magazine – August 29, 1918 (# 1870) – Soldier and his girl

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Cover : Soldier (a private) holding his girl and looking suspiciously over his shoulder at you, “Private Business”, art by Paul Stahr, very cute!

– Full page color Omar Turkish cigarettes ad, men in rowboat leaving sailboat.
– Illustrators include Charles Dana Gibson, Robert L. Dickey, Paul Reilly, Donald McKee, J. R. Shaver, Rodney Thomson (full page), Chester I. Garde, Tousey, F. Foster Lincoln, Birch, Power O’Malley, A. B. Walker, Lang Campbell, J. Conacher, R. Jerome Hill,  Donald McKee, Walter DeMaris (Full page), Sullivant, Calvert, F. G. Cooper, R. B. Fuller, A. D. Blashfield, R. Jerome Hill, Pedro Llanuza, Dick Clarke, and many others.
– California Wines.
– Poem by Arthur Guiterman, The Marines.
– Editorial comments pertain to The Great War, World War I, General March, Vladivostok, Petrograd, Colonel House spending time with President, Carranza and impositions on the oil companies, and more.
– Two page center spread by C. D. Gibson, “The Last Blow.”
– French Babies Fund includes photos of Charlotte Gauby, Berthe Hequet, Valentine Geffroy.
– Rules for a Bolshevik Municipal Theatre.
– Pretty full page color Milo Violets cigarettes ad.
– Wonderful full page with color Velvet Tobacco ad with art by M. Leone Bracker.