Life Magazine – March 27, 1919 (# 1900) – Returning Soldiers are Heroes

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Cover : Lady looking adoringly at a soldier in parade of returning military men, “The girl who refused him three years ago,” art by C. Clyde Squires.

– Full page color ads for Fatima cigarettes (with nice portrait of a military officer, not named), Victor Victrola (nice art of family in their livingroom listening to the victrola).
– Full page ads for Keely-Springfield tires (interesting style with half the page blank), Life magazine subscription, Robbins & Myers Motors (extremely nice art with two women and a vacuum cleaner, not signed), Weed Chain-Jack (nice art by Farkas), Chandler Motor cars (Economy without sacrifice, art by Glenn Shaw), Ruud water heaters, Stearns motor cars (art by Marcel Olis).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harry Grant Dart (The Horrors of having lost : Rich German leading a life of ease, surrounded by war memorabilia and such, landscape format), Oliver Herford (The first session of the Sinn Fein parliament), Robert L. Dickey (It’s just a dog’s life, after all), R. B. Fuller (Farmer Brown’s new help does her first ploughing), C. D. Gibson (Hospitality as it is practiced : Are you going to have the Blondley’s to dinner this season?), Harry Grant Dart (Bolshevik : See how I’ve bettered my condition in less than two years … well fed and paid American worker contrasted to tattered and skinny Russian worker).
– Two page centerspread art by Anton Otto Fischer (Has the peace conference forgotten the Belgian Prince?).
– Some current events include : George Wharton Pepper, League of Nations, Frank Munsey doctrine, A Mohammedan dignitary (a Muslim) is in Paris to protest against the return to Christians of the Church of St. Sophia in Constantinople, Korea wants to be free.
– And much, much more.