Life Magazine – July 4, 1918 (# 1862) – War Games

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Cover : Little boy playing war games and pretending that his Dachshund dog is the German enemy, “No longer friends,” art by Paul Stahr.

– Full page color ads for Columbia Grafonola (art by ERS, different kinds of people doing a line dance of sorts), Bevo (The Beverage, with fox hunting and pheasant hunting theme), Pall Mall cigarettes (for Auld Lang Syne).

– Extremely charming half page ad for Eno’s Fruit Salt, with mother and two children in a train compartment.

– Full page black and white ads for Life magazine (next week’s Navy Number), Clicquot Club Ginger Ale, Mimeograph (Woman power! With photo of a woman working at a typewriter), Eastman Kodak (odd two page anti-German ad).

– Odd quarter page photo of glum looking boys at Life’s Fresh Air Farm, “Conspirators.”

– Full page art or cartoon art by Rodney Thomson (Their boy in France, how the different members of the family imagine him in the war), Rea Irvin (Who’s Who in Russia, landscape format), Charles Dana Gibson (With our boys), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days : waytyng for ye ferrie).

– Two page centerspread art by William H. Walker, “1935 or thereabouts, another visit unless the job is finished now,” a chillingly accurate prediction of the second world war WWII.

– Small photos of French orphans Marie Therese Glandut (# 2400) and her brother, Yvonne Rannon (# 2495) with mother and sister, Constance Garnier (# 2364) with her brother.

– Some current events include : A million men in France is a good beginning, 89 ships, The Italian victory, Belgians in Belgium are still being executed by the dozen by their German rulers, Should we go to the aid of Russia?, Advertisements for the Morman church, Germans have shown some symptoms of politeness to Americans in the U-boat raids, National Security League.

– And much more 1918   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!