Life Magazine – October 5, 1916 (# 1771) – Sailor Kissing Dream of Girl

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Cover : Sailor imagining a kiss from his girl at home, “A zephyr from home,” art by Angus MacDonall.

– Full page color Milo Egyptian cigarettes ad, The Chariot Race, by Otho Cushing.
– Full page art or cartoon art by C. A. Voight (The theorist : rowing), Charles Dana Gibson (Breaking the news to him), F. T. Richards (September), J. Norman Lynd (landscape format : Father Knickerbocker : Alas, poor Yorick).
– Cute little photos of Marie and Jeanne Tanguy (babies 218 and 219) and Anne Marie LeJeune (baby 162) with her father, widowed mother and older sister.
– Two page centerspread art by Harry Grant Dart, super artwork, “At the Post.”
– Some current events include : Which of the two ministers’ sons will be sent to the White House, The Adamson bill, Mr. Robert Bacon did not get a permit to run for senator of New York, Street Car strike, We are still threatened with a general strike of Federated workers.
– Full page color Velvet tobacco ad with happy old gentleman smoking, “The Thirty Third Degree pipe lover.”
– Full page color Rauch & Lang Electrics car ad, Utility, with nice art of partly shadowed yellow car, art by C. Everett Johnson.
– A small comic drawing by Fred G. Cooper in this issue was used as inspiration for the logo of the 25th Space Range Squadron of the US Air Force (thanks to a 2Neat ♥ customer for this interesting fact!).
– And much more 1916   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!