Life Magazine – June 20, 1918 (# 1860) – Fishermen with mine in net

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Cover : Two perplexed and worried fishermen who have drawn up an explosive mine along with the fish in their net, “Fisherman’s Luck,” art by Anton Otto Fisher.  This is a chilling cover.

– Full page color ads for Michelin Tires and Tubes (price), Rameses cigarettes (the welcome guest), Pall Mall cigarettes (Over there, with some kind of gun belt).

– Public service piece from the Committee on Public Information, Spies and Lies, German agents are everywhere.

– Full page black and white ads for United States Tires (Production methods that insure tire economy), Nujol for constipation, Victor Records, Franklin Automobile Company.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (Lady Liberty leading ships across the ocean, The Transports), Harrison Cady (landscape format, modern soldier being startled by vision of Napoleon, In the smoke of a Flanders campfire), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days, ye theologycalle argumente), R. B. Fuller (After the war : the first German traveling salesman lands in America), Charles Dana Gibson (The Same Old Trick, Autocracy playing the shell game with Russia).

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Broughton, We Fought for Liberty – You against it, famous military persons from history facing German soldier at the River Styx.

– Small photos of fatherless French children : Emile Giraud (Baby 2320), Anna Gourion (Baby 2445) with mother and siblings, Paul Devin (Baby 2088) with his four brothers, Henri Guschmerre (Baby 1941) with his two brothers.

– Some current events include : Small gains by Germans in the war won via a very large cost of German lives, Irvin S. Cobb, U-boats haven’t sunk anything very hurtful yet, Big wheat crop, Big US Army growing rapidly, We have already sent 700,000 men to the war in Europe, The Kaiser has made himself half brother to Satan, Randall amendment to the Food Survey Bill.

– Andrew Carnegie is a pauper compared to John D. Rockefeller, Benedict Arnold is a popular hero compared to Senator La Follette.

– And much, much more.