1909/10/23 -- Cover design by Fousey

Complete contents picked up from paging through the issue are as follows:

  • "Women of the Old World -- A Few Comparisons Not Necessarily Odious" by Emerson Hough
  • "An Up-to-Date Feller -- Potash & Perlmutter Entertain a Lady Buyer" by Montague Glass and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • "Price of Suffrage for American Women" by Mrs. L.H. Harris and illustrated by F. Vaux Wilson
  • "The Final Score" by Richard Washburn Child and illustrated by F. Vaux Wilson
  • "The Losing Game" a serial by Will Payne and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • "Water as Wealth -- Battles for Brooks and Fights for Mountain Springs" by Walter V. Woehlke
  • "The Trials of Tony -- His Last Chance" by Storer Clouston and illustrated by Gustavus C. Widney
  • "The Highwaymen -- A Three-Cornered Fight for Peace, for Power, for War--and a Girl" by Edwin Balmer and William MacHarg and illustrated by Edmund Frederick
  • "Who's Who and Why"
  • "Tenderfoot Talk -- A Reply to Mr. Hughes" by Charles H. Ranlett
  • "Canned Laughter" by John R. Hale
  • "Thrift -- When a Woman Will, She Will"
  • "Magazine Men -- And One Woman Who Live by Their Pens and Typewriters" is a half-page featuring 6 photos of: David Graham Phillips, Booth Tarkington, Edwin Lefevre, Montague Glass, Owen Johnson, and Myra Kelly

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Swift & Pride Washing Powder on the inside front cover, Hartford Tires, Hart Schaffner & Marx, 2-pages for Elgin Watches, Western Electric, Grape-Nuts*, Arrow Collars*, The New Savage Automatic*, Auto Strop Safety Razor*, Quaker Oats, The Stearns - The Ultimate Car on the inside back cover, and a Colgate's ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))