Life Magazine – October 31, 1918 (# 1879) – German rat caught in trap

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Cover : German military rat with plunder on his back caught in the rat trap baited with American Cheese, art by Tony Sarg / Toni Sarg.

– Full page color ads for Omar cigarettes, Victor Victrola (soldiers in bunker listening to opera).
– Full page ads for Franklin Automobile Company (not signed), Century Company book publishers.
– Cute half page art by J. Conacher, “We’ve been stung, Bill!  That ain’t French they was learnin’ us back home at all.”  
– Full page art or cartoon art by R. B. Fuller (In 1930, if we should have a negotiated peace today … America devastated, Germany in charge), R. B. Fuller (Davy Jones eyeing his locker which is overflowing with U-boats, “H’m!  I’ll have to get another locker”), Fred G. Cooper (cartoonlets), Oliver Herford (I have left no stone unturned, for peace … Kaiser standing atop the rubble of his war).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, As the tide comes in, Germany making a last stand in a sand castle.
– Small photos of fatherless French children, Baby 2818 Reine Aguillo with her siblings, Baby 3259 Germaine Sully.
– Some current events include : One reads the newspaper headline and then looks at the map on the next page to see how much of Belgium has been re-Belgianized since yesterday, Germany says that orders have been sent to the U-boats not to sink any more passenger ships, Fourth Liberty Loan is complete (for the war) and we now need to finance the groups that alleviate the activities the Liberty Loan supports (Red Cross, war relief and such).
– And much, much more.