Life Magazine – July 26, 1917 (# 1813) – Dry States Edition

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Cover : Little boy in explorer or soldier garb regaling a little girl with his adventures, art by Paul Stahr.

– DRY-STATES EDITION.
– Full page color ads for Fisk Red top tires (with really cool art by Leon Gordon), Willys-Overland (Willys Knight with nice art of blue car at beach scene, signed but I don’t recognize the glyph), McCallum silk hosiery (wonderful sepia tone art of woman and her dog wake boarding or water skiing, not signed but has to be Marjorie C. Woodbury).
– Full page black and white ads for Bull Durham tobacco (With photo of Captain W. A. Ladd and O. C. Wyman at Plattsburg, New York, marching men in background), Smith Motor Truck Corporation (art of Smith Form-a-Truck by Henry A. Thiede), Marathon Tires.
– Curious half page artwork by Marcus showing people in a line to pay war taxes, “Shocking company (tobacco and liquor) for two nice old ladies (coffee and tea).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Alexander Popini (The tannery, women sun bathing on the beach), Charles Forbell (If dreams came true : the medal for distinguished gallantry), Rea Irvin (Down on the farm with the women war-workers), Charles Dana Gibson (Men Wanted … girl choosing the handsome sailor over the not-enlisted fop), Harry Grant Dart (Cheap at any price … pertaining to prohibition); Harrison Cady (The regatta season opens in Beetleburgh).
– Small photos of French war orphans : Clemence Maniez (Baby 438), Jean Argaillot (1001), Yvonne Pilard (158).
– Full page poem by Arthur Guiterman, “The Sand Witch,” with art border by Paul Goold.
– Two page centerspread art by W. O. Wilson, “Quick! The food dictator!” People at a fancy dinner scrambling to hide luxury foods.
– Some current events include : Disturbance in the government in Germany; Reassembled Reichstag; Military Preparation in the USA; The machinery of the draft has started; Training new troops; Mr. Denman is now Chairman of the Shipping Board.
– “A million soldiers does not sound very big to ears familiar with the numbers in this war, but it is a great many to make out of raw material, and train, subsist, pay, clothe, arm, transport and otherwise provide for.”
– And much, much more.