Life Magazine – July 11, 1918 (# 1863) – Navy and sailors

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Cover : Sailor besieged by two young ladies, “The lost man of war,” art by Paul Stahr.  Wonderful cover art!

– NAVY NUMBER.
– Full page color ads for Murad cigarettes (very colorful art with umbrellas and flags, not signed), Rameses cigarettes, Adams California Fruit Gum (Chicle company, with Dancer Ruth St. Denis, signed but illegible).
– Full page ads for Clicquot Club Ginger Ale (nice art of Eskimo child and different kinds of sportsmen, not signed), Weed Tire Chains (man putting on chains as woman opens umbrella as rain comes, signed but illegible), Pierce-Arrow motor cars.
– Full page art or cartoon art by R. B. Fuller (The Prussian Version: The heavens declare the glory of Gott; and the firmament showeth his handiwork), F. T. Richards (June), Charles Dana Gibson (At the gate, shipyard), Harrison Cady (Sixty years ago, old lady and old ship thinking of times gone past).
– Nice small photo of sailors reading the May 2, 1918 issue of Life magazine, sailors not named.
– Two page centerspread art by Harrison Cady, A salute from the past, Historic naval figures saluting a current sailor.
– Small photos of fatherless French children, Baby 2190 Germaine Bijou, Baby 2595 Madeleine Jamin, Baby 2570 Maurice Lebail with his siblings.
– Some current events include : German Foreign Secretary told the Reichstag that diplomatic negotiations will be needed to end the war, News from Russia has been full of incorrect headlines, “Our war has got a bad disease (the war), but it is not going to die of it.”
– And so much more!  Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!