Life Magazine – March 29, 1917 (# 1796) – Will Rannells Top Hat Dog

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Cover : White dog (a boxer?) in white bow tie and top hat, “After Six,” art by Will Rannells.

– Full page ad for Apperson Roadaplane, Apperson Brothers Automobile company of Kokomo, Indiana.
– Unusual full page Locomobile ad with intricate artwork, Fine arts, no car.
– Two page art by Wm. H. Walker (Germania : Fine Doctors!  Kulturing the world while I waste away).
– Small photos of French babies Mauricette Panquin, the Guillon family with Theophile and Cecile.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (The sooner the better), Harry Grant Dart (They never would be missed),
– Two page centerspread art by Ellison Hoover & Pierre Fritel, “The conquerers”, big business driving through ranks of dead bodies.
– Some current events include : The Czar has got the blue envelope, Germans have gone back to the rear of Bapaume and Peroone, U-boats have sunk overnight three American ships, President has called off the railroad strike due to imminence of war, Agents of the German Secret Service in the US, Bagdad is held by British troops, Promotion of Commander Gordon Campbell of the British Navy, Lieutenant Tipton dismissed for being drunk.
– Full page color Victrola ad with art by Norman Price.
– Much more.