Life Magazine – January 23, 1919 (# 1891) – Soldiers Back

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Cover : Soldier stretching in bed with a happy smile, it is 10:30am and he is still abed, art by J. F. Kernan

– BACK HOME NUMBER (military personnel returning from the Great War).
– Full page color ads for Chase Plush Motor Car Robes (man driving in a snowstorm in an open car), Fatima cigarettes.
– Full page black and white ads for Miller Rubber Company (Miller geared-to-the-road uniform mileage tires, uniform tires mean no second bests), Life magazine subscription, American Chain Company (Alone with his conscience, man sitting in front of his fire at home, reliving a near fatal accident), Good Year (Boston to Boston, with cool photo of two big trucks on rocky road), Addressograph,
– Poignant half page artwork by Calvert of a man in a sailor’s uniform, riding quickly on horseback through the desert, “Going Home.”
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Forbell (Their first day back home, neat overhead perspective on parade from skyscrapers), Walter De Maris (sailor with broken arm telling a woman that the worst part was that a tattoo got destroyed), Baldula ? (signature unknown, Among those present at the Peace Table), Charles Dana Gibson (I’m going to ask your father at once, daughter preparing her suitor for the confrontation), F. Foster Lincoln (When they bid good-bye to France), Taplin (The town where she lives, heart around town as seen from airplane).
– Some current events include : War is a bad disease and has all sorts of sequelae of a painful character, Chaos in Russia, Violent disturbance in Berlin, Colonel Roosevelt’s sudden death, Mr. Lodge, Mr. McAdoo quit his job.
– Small photos of French orphans : Emilienne Duhern 2838 with mother and sister, Fernande Bourgouin 293 with brother and sisters, Suzanne Boudrant 3082, Georgette Cochelin 2692, Jeanne Gueves 2610.
– And much, much more.