Life Magazine – February 25, 1915 (# 1687) – Soldiers dreaming of home

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Cover : Soldiers on battlefield dreaming of a girl at home, “It’s a long, long way to Tipperary”, art by Power O’Malley.

– Full page color Vanity Fair ad that reproduces the cover March, 1915.
– Full page Tone Victrola ad, Victrola XVI, $200.
– Illustrators include Angus MacDonall, Otho Cushing, A. D. Blashfield, C. Barnes (dogs going off to Science Laboratory to be experimented on), J. Conacher, Wm. H. Walker (full page), P. L. Crosby, Art Young, Rea Irvin (full page), Chester I. Garde, Forbell, Laura Foster, Alek Sass, Orson Lowell (a neat big one with car plunging off mountain road), Sullivant, A. B. Walker, Paul Reilly, Charles Dana Gibson (Full page), Emery,  J. R. Shaver, Art Young, and many more.
– Curious cartoon with ladies holding four babies : Lucius, Imogene, Ferdinand, Emmeline, LIFE.
– Tough time for parents.
– Progress : The bible (1615), the fashion magazine (1915).
– Editorial comments pertain to USA’s notices to Germany and England, Secretary of State, Much on Germany, The Great War.
– Two page center spread by Harrison Cady, “Twelve o’lock, and all’s well.”
– Quarter page ad for going to the California Expositions via the Southern Pacific Sunset Route, railroad.
– Quarter page ad with Miss Spokane, for travel to Washington state.
– Half page ad for Ideal Power Lawn Mower of Lansing, Michigan.
– Full page color Williams’ Holder Top Shaving Stick.