Life Magazine – May 2, 1918 (# 1853) – Bomb at Life offices

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Cover : Four generations of women and girls of his family waving goodbye to a sailor, “The girls he left behind,” art by Paul Stahr.  This is a very poignant cover … if he dies at war this will devastate his grandmother, his mother, his wife and his daughter.

– OK, wow – very unusual content : Small photo of dynamite bomb found in the entrance to Life’s editorial and business offices just after midnight, Sunday April 21st, 1918.  Patrolman Timothy Shea discovered it.  Perps not yet found but thought to be German sympathizers.
– Full page color ads for Murad Turkish cigarettes (with lovely harem scene art), Bevo beverage from Anheuser-Busch (with art).
– Full page ads for United States Tires (with nice art of driving in Mexico, not signed), Life magazine subscription, Mimeograph, Beeman’s Pepsin chewing gum, McClure’s magazine, Macbeth headlights.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days : entertaynyng ye mother-yn-law), Charles Dana Gibson (Chips of the old block),
– Two page centerspread art, unsigned, “The return from Russia,” realistic looking art of horseback column riding in winter mud.
– Small photos of fatherless French children, Baby 2407 Paulette Sabathe, Baby 466 Paulette Pantalacci, Baby 2272 Henri Collet and his sister, Babies 2451 and 2450 Jean Baptiste Echave and Germaine Echave.
– Some current events include : Irish draft complication (clergy oppose it), Great battle in France, It is evident that the main supplies of fresh troops must come from us, New York’s new barge-canal, We have borrowed everybody’s ships.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1918 content – fun!