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Life Magazine – August 8, 1918 (# 1867) – Corn and scarecrow
$32.00 – $42.00
Magazine Condition Choices :
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Description
Cover : Young lady, hoeing in corn field and gazing fondly at scarecrow with its arms outstretched toward her, “Memories,” art by S. D. Runyon.
– Full page color ad for Pall Mall cigarettes, Italian – The famous Bersaglieri Troops.
– Full page ads for United States Tires (art by Casavant of men unloading freight trucks), Life magazine subscription, Fatima cigarettes (art of capitol building), White Company trucks (no art), Timken bearings (with photos, probably from Canton Ohio plant).
– Quarter page photo from Life’s fresh air farm, with kids swimming at the stone quarry.
– Full page art or cartoon art by F. T. Richards (July), Charles Dana Gibson (Somewhere in Russia), Charles Forbell (Blessed are the peacemakers), Robert L. Dickey (if wishes were horses).
– Small photos of fatherless French children, Baby 2431 Gilbert Blanchard, Baby 1869 George Pleuvry, Baby 2447 Paulette Borreau, Baby 1225 Germaine Dubois, Baby 2193 and 2440 Maurice Bonnaventure and Gabriel Bonnaventure.
– Two page centerspread art by Anton Otto Fischer, The captain of the submarine, looking out at a sea of ghost hands waving for help out of the water.
– Some current events include : Maps show the daily shrinking of the bulge between Rheims and Soissons, Chateau-Thierry, Democratic convention at Albany, Wishing that the Roman Catholic Church would get out of politics, George Sylvester Viereck, Lichnowsky memoirs.
– And so much more! 1918 Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!
