Life Magazine – August 3, 1916 (# 1762) – Sailors with Foreign Ladies

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Cover : US Navy sailor with lovely Spanish lady and another with an Oriental lady, “We have met the enemy and they are ours,” art by Angus MacDonall.

– Full page color ads for Prince Albert tobacco, Gordon Dry Gin, Columbia Grafonola.

– Full page black and white ads for Dodge Brothers Cars (a circle that never stops growing), Velie Motor Vehicle Company (nice art of Polo game with a 1917 Velie Biltwel Six, aigned with a G in a circle), American Chain Company (Weed anti-skid chains, Criminal negligence, killed a child), Du Pont Fabrikoid Company (Rayntite car topping material), United States Rubber Company (two pages, with small labeled depictions of all the different factories), Kelly-Springfield tires.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Birch (2/3 page, How do you suppose old Plimrock came to marry a girl only nineteen?), A. D. Blashfield (A few of this year’s automobile models), Charles Dana Gibson (Decorations, two German officers well-laden with medals sneaking behind a soldier with many grievous wounds.), F. T. Richards (July).

– Fatherless French child Marcel Boudenet (Baby 90) of 11 Rue Desprez, Paris.

– Two page centerspread art by Ellison Hoover, “The People’s Choice,” Firing squad of the US voting public shooting Congress.

– Some current events include : The Great War enters its third year still going strong and with no end in sight, Kaiser William II, Belgium made her foolhardy objection to being a road, France scrambled to arms, Dr. Walter Rauschenbusch of the German branch of the Baptist Theological Seminary in Rochester.

– “It will be impossible to get up any effectual fright about Russian domination until the fear of German domination is thoroughly allayed.”

– Cute photo of two little kids standing in the Sunshine at Life’s fresh air camp.

– Lovely half page artwork of lonely rich lady sitting in the grounds of her beautiful home at night, “To exchange : an Eden for an Adam.”

– And much more 1916   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!