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1913-12-13 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1913/12/13 — Cover design by William Haskell Coffin

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

  • The Goldfish: Being the Confessions of a Successful Man with illustrations by F.R. Gruger
  • “The Firm” by Josephine Daskam Bacon and illustrated by W.B. King
  • Humanizing the Law by Melville Davisson Post
  • “Brunette! Medium” by Henry Kitchell Webster and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • “The Man Behind the Ticket” by Edward Hungerford and illustrated by Charles D. Mitchell
  • “The Fifth Tube: Infallible Godahl Turns a Trick With Gravity” by Frederick Irving Anderson and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • “An Amiable Charlatan” by E. Phillips Oppenheim and illustrated by Will Grefe
  • Who’s Who–And Why: Serious and Frivolous Facts About the Great and the Near Great
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Prince Albert on the inside front cover, Cadillac, Louise Dresser and William Collier for Simmons Chains*, Paris Garters*, Campbell’s Soups*, 2-page ad for Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum featuring Santa Claus and reindeer is in the center of the issue, Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pens, Iver Johnson’s Arms & Cycle Works, E. Howard Watch Works ad with illustration signed F.X.L. (I assume F.X. Leyendecker), Indian Motorcycles from Hendee Manufacturing Co, “The Telephone Doors of the Nation” from American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T)*, Florsheim Shoes, Edison Dictating Machine, 2-page ad from Columbia one with Columbia Records showing several personalities including Mary Garden, Marcia Gay and Lina Cavalieri and the other for Columbia Grafonola, Studebaker, Hupmobile, Snider’s Catsup, and a Victor Victrola ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

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    1913-11-15 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1913/11/15 — Cover design by J.C. Leyendecker

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

  • “The Reorganization of the Republican Party” by Senator Albert B. Cummins with drawings by H.J. Boulen
  • “The Last Assignment” by Peter B. Kyne and illustrated by W.B. King
  • “Wealth on Wings: The Wildfowl of America” by Emerson Hough
  • “Shakespeare’s Seven Ages and Mine ‘Then the Whining Schoolboy’” by Irvin S. Cobb
  • “The Girl and the Selling Game – A Personal Narrative” illustrated by Z.P. Nikolaki
  • “Birds of Paradise Lost” by Ida M. Evans and illustrated by F. Vaux Wilson
  • “Woodrowsby Legends – The Lorelei of the Potomac” by Wallace Irwin and illustrated by M.L. Blumenthal
  • “Beating Back — Between Two Natures” by Al J. Jennings and Will Irwin and illustrated by C.M. Russell
  • “The Butterfly” by Henry Kitchell Webster and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • “Who’s Who-And Why”
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • “How to Buy Coal” by Roger W. Babson
  • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: The Royal Tailers, Holeproof Hosiery, Keen Kutter*, American Thermos Bottle Co.*, Campbell’s Soups*, Mitchell-Lewis Motor Co.*, Ever-Ready Safety Razors*, Simmons Chains ad featuring Robert Mantell, Donald Brian and Josephine Cohan*, Edison Dictating Machine*, Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pen*, Victor-Victrola, Bing Toys*, Velvet Tobacco*, Kissel Motor Car Co., Kirschbaum*, Hansen’s Gloves*, The Chandler Motor Car Co., Krit Motor Car Co., Prince Albert, Lysol*, Studebaker, Girard Cigars*, The Mysto Erector*, Towle’s Log Cabin Syrup*, King Air Rifles*, Hupp Motor Car Co., and Mazda from General Electric on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

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    1913-09-20 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1913/09/20 — Cover design by J.C. Leyendecker

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

  • “The Spitter” by James Hopper is about the spitball in baseball. Looks to be a thinly veiled fiction about the New York Giants using names like Matterson and manager John McGrath. Actually has a photo with John McGraw
  • “Saving a Brother — How Petey Simmons Became a Horde of Criminals in Order to Do it” by George Fitch and illustrated by M.L. Blementhal
  • “Jacob Plays a Counterpart” by Kennett Harris and illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner
  • “Selling That Concerns Everybody on the Payroll” by James H. Collins with illustration by W.H.D. Koerner
  • “The Surplus Widows” by Harris Dickson and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • “Every Man His Own Merchant” by Forrest Crissey and illustrated by John R. Neill
  • “The Government Company” by Will Payne and illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner
  • “Beating Back — The Long Riders” by Al J. Jennings and Will Irwin with photos of Jennings
  • “In Search of a Husband” by Corra Harris and illustrated by Will Foster (part of a serial)
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • “Who’s Who and Why”
  • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: American Radiator Company on the inside front cover with a Maud Wilson illustration of a young girl and collie, Occident Flour, Holeproof Hosiery, Campbell’s Soup*, Willys Utility Truck from The Willys-Overland Company, Quaker Oats*, 2-page ad for The National Cash Register, United States Cartridge Company*, Prince Albert*, Arrow Semi-Bosom Shirts*, Imperial Automobile Co., United States Tire, Franklin Automobile Company, Community Silver ad with illustration by Coles Phillips, Anderson Electric Car Co., the Marathon from Herff-Brooks Corporation, Sherwin-Williams*, and a Victor Talking Machine ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

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    1913-09-13 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1913/09/13 — Cover design by Charles A. MacLellan

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

  • “Life Among the Abandoned Farmers by Irvin S. Cobb and illustrated by Peter Newell
  • “Found in the Fog” by Melville Davisson Post and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “My Rich Wife” by M.I. Brush and illustrated by Will Grefe
  • “Letting a Sale Make Itself” by James H. Collins and illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner
  • “The Government Company” by Will Payne and illustrated by W.H. D. Koerner
  • “Old Times and New in the Theater Business” by William A. Brady
  • “The Sole Reason” by Fannie Hurst and illustrated by May Wilson Preston
  • “A Singer’s Story” by Clara Louise Kellogg-Strakosch and illustrated by W.B. King
  • “In Search of a Husband” by Corra Harris and illustrated by Will Foster
  • “Educating ‘Nice Girls’” by Mary Master Needham
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • “Who’s Who and Why” is about Frank T. O’Hair
  • “The Forehanded Man” by Will Payne
  • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: , Elgin Watches on the inside front cover, The House of Kuppenheimer, Hart Schaffner & Marx, “I Am a Burgler” ad from Iver Johnson Revolver*, Post Toasties*, Fisk Tires, Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pen*, 2-page ad for The Royal Tailors, Colt Firearms*, Woodbury’s Facial Soap*, 2-pages from Chalmers Motor Company, Mallory Hats, 2-page ad for Hupmobile, Reo Motor Car Co., Westinghouse Electric, American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), Lifebuoy Soap*, Rexall Stores, Warner Auto-Meter, Oldsmobile, Stag Smoking Tobacco, Kellogg’s*Packard, Snider’s Catsup, and a Colgate’s ad featuring a large generic baseball player with New York Giants endorsement on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

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    1913-05-24 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1913/05/24 — Cover design by J.C. Leyendecker

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

  • “Woodrow Wilson – Human Being” by Samuel G. Blythe
  • “The Hooker-Up-the-Back” by Edna Ferber and illustrated by Will Grefe
  • “What Swept the American Flag from the Sea?-1815-1915: How to Restore the United States Merchant Marine” by A.C. Laut
  • “adventures Underground” by Madge C. Jenison with decoration by Irma Deremeaux
  • “Blind Man’s Bluff — An Episode in the Career of the Infallible Godahl, as Edited From the Notes of Oliver Armiston, his Creator” by Frederick Irving Anderson and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • “Mr. Jones and the Nobility” by Dorothea Conyers and illustrated by Stanley M. Arthurs
  • “The Whistling Man” by Maximilian Foster and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • “Common Sense for a State” by Will Payne
  • “The Heroes of Yesterday” a poem by Reginald Wright Kauffman with decoration by Franklin Booth
  • “For Mr. Fluffycuffles: How a Man May Spend Thousands a Year on His Clothes” by Corinne Lowe
  • “Breaking Into New York – The Final Stages” illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • “Who’s Who and Why” is about Dr. David Franklin Houston
  • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: “Playing Hookey” Cream of Wheat ad illustrated by Leslie Thrasher on the inside front cover, Holeproof Hosiery, Crisco, Elgin Watches*, 2-page ad for Velvet Tobacco, Lifebuoy Health Soap*, Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company, Hupmobile, 2-pages of Columbia Graphophones, The Vest Pocket Kodak*, Hires*, Hudson Motor Car Company, B.F. Goodrich, and a Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

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    1913-05-03 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1913/05/03 — Cover design by Carol Aus

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

  • Followers After Strange Gods by Joseph G. Cannon former Speaker of the House
  • “The Sweetest Sweetheart” by Fannie Hurst and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • The Wife of the Hero-Worshipped by May Kavenaugh Warwick
  • “The Little Brown One” by Mary Stewartt Cutting and illustrated by C.D. Williams
  • “The Door-Stopper” by Will Irwin and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • What Swept the American Flag from the Sea?–1815-1915: Is the Inlander Interested in a Merchant Marine by A.C. Laut
  • “Beginner’s Luck” by Will Payne and illustrated by Irma Deremeaux
  • “The Silver Spoon” by Walter E. Weyl and illustrated by H.J. Mowat
  • “The Whistling Man” part of a serial by Maximilian Foster and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • John Barleycorn by Jack London and illustrated by H.T. Dunn (part of a serialized work beginning with part 36)
  • Who’s Who — And Why: Serious and Frivolous Facts About the Great and Near Great
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • “The Island of Adventure: The Adventure of the Street with Three Ends” by Irvin S. Cobb and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • What’s On the Top by Enos A. Mills
  • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: The House of Kuppenheimer on the inside front cover (with stain soaked through from cover), General Electric (stained), Hart Schaeffer & Marx (stained), Welch’s, Beech-Nut Peanut Butter with Belle Beech-Nut, Firestone Tires*, Indian Motorcycle from Hendee Manufacturing Company*, 2-page Overland ad from Willys-Overland Company in the middle of the issue, Van Camp’s Pork & Beans*, Campbell’s Soup*, Eastman Kodak*, Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company*, Quaker Oats, Reo Motor Car Co., Goodyear, Yale Motorcyle from The Consolidated Mfg. Co., Chalmers Motor Company, Franklin Automobile Company, Arrow Shirts*, Underwood Deviled Ham*, BVD*, Daisy Air Rifle*, Moon Motor Car Co., Florsheim Shoes, The New Hudson Six from Hudson Motor Car Company, Stag Tobacco, “Spooning With Dad” Corn Flakes ad from Kellogg’s*, 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 (*))

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    1909-10-23 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    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 (*))

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    1909-08-07 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1909/08/07 — Cover design by Harrison Fisher

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

  • “The Humming Bird — Young Brian de Boru Finnegan Chronicles Baseball” by Owen Johnson and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “The Placid Game of Cricket — British Brawn and Dignity at the Wickets” by George Fitch and illustrated by Peter Newell
  • “The Gentlemen From Missouri — What the Bank Examiner Does and Does Not Do” by Harry Snowden Stabler and illustrated by H.M. Bunker
  • “The Danger Mark” part of a serial by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by A.B. Wenzell
  • “One More Martyr” by Gouverneur Morris and illustrated by P.V.E. Ivory
  • “Who’s Who and Why”
  • “The American Bluejacket — His Day’s Work on a Man-of-War” by Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum
  • “Dollars in Eggs — Making a Living from a Small Chicken Farm” by R.P. Ellis
  • “Oddities and Novelties”
  • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Gold Medal Flour on the inside front cover, Ivory Soap, 2-pages for the Winton Motor Carraige Co. in the center, Colgate*, Waterman’s Ideal Pens*, Cadillac Motor Car Company, Mennen’s Toilet Powder*, Haynes Automobile Co.*, Knotair Hosiery Company*, Kingsford’s Corn Starch*, Gillette*, and an Oldsmobile ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

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    1909-07-17 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1909/07/17 — Cover design by Harrison Fisher

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

  • “The Danger Mark” by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by A.B. Wenzell
  • “The Policy of the House — The Steady Job the Best for All Concerned” by James H. Collins and illustrated by F.L. Fithian
  • “The Despoiler” by Gouverneur Morris and illustrated by Orson Lowell
  • “The Real Yellow Peril” by Woods Hutchinson, AM, MD and illustrated by Harrison Cady
  • “Bulls-Eye” part of a serial by Henry Milner Rideout and illustrated by Orson Lowell
  • “Who’s Who and Why”
  • “The Senator’s Secretary”
  • “Your Savings — Bonds Secured by Natural Resources”
  • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Franklin Automobiles, Keen Kutter, 2-pages for The American Vacuum Cleaner Co., a large section of small ads for schools and colleges, Gillette*, and a Gold Medal Flour ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

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    1908-01-04 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1908/01/04 — Cover design by Stanley M. Arthurs

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

  • “The Memoirs of a Co-Ed” by Edwin L. Sabin
  • “The Courtship” by Stewart Edward White and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • “The Greatest Problem in America: A Square Deal for the Soil” by Samuel W. Allerton
  • “Men Who Get Caught” by Arthur Train and illustrated by Edmund Frederick
  • “Telltales of Disease — What the Doctor Learns from the Giat, Carriage and Voice of Patients” by Woods Hutchinson, AM, MD and illustrated by Emlen McConnell
  • “The New Reporters and How He Views the Doings at the Capitol”
  • “Funny Little New York: The Sufferings of its Rich During the Latest Unpleasantness” by Harrison Rhodes
  • American Wives and Foreign Husbands” by an Ex-Diplomat “With Some Advice to a Young Girl About to Marry a Count”
  • “Who’s Who and Why” is about Texas Senator Charles A. Culberson
  • “Marcille” by Gilbert Parker and illustrated by H.T. Dunn
  • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Sanitol Tooth & Toilet Preparations on the inside front cover, Van Camp’s Pork & Beans, Cadillac*, Holeproof Hosiery*, Eastman Kodak*, Packard*, Nabisco Sugar Wafers*, The Mutual Life Insurance Company*, H&R Revolvers*, Pillsbury on the inside back cover, and a Kellogg’s Corn Flakes ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

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    1907-10-05 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1907/10/05 — Cover design by J.C. Leyendecker

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

  • Getting Rich Quick – The Unvarnished Story of Just How It Was Done – by George Randolph Chester and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • How’s Business? A Little Journey Into the Homes of the Really Prosperous by Will Payne
  • “Jack Spurlock — Prodigal” by George Horace Lorimer and illustrated by F.R Gruger
  • The Clubhouse of the People — What One City Has Done for Its Citizens — by Maude L. Radford and illustrated by James M. Preston about the parks system in Chicago
  • “Blessed Be the Peacemakers” by Henry Wallace Phillips and illustrated by Gustavus C. Widney
  • “Antiques” of To-Day – The Game of Bunco as Played on the American Collector by W.G. Fitzgerald and illustrated by M.L. Blumenthal about art forgeries
  • Who’s Who — And Why – Serious and Frivolous Facts About the Great and the Near Great focuses on U.S. Attorney Edwin W. Sims with photo
  • Your Savings – Bank and Trust Stocks as Investments
  • In the Open by “Fair-Play”
  • The Censor of English Plays — The Lord Chamberlain as Regulator of Court Millinery and Dramatic Literature by W.G. Fitzgerald
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    1907-07-27 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1907/07/27 — Cover design by F.X. Leyendecker

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

  • “A Lady in Haste by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by Emlen McConnell and A.B. Wenzell
  • Is Roosevelt an Opportunist? – What He Wrote About the Trusts and Said About the Railroads in 1899 by Forrest Crissey with a copy/reproduction of Theodore Roosevelt ‘s 1899 letter in the middle of the page
  • “Inasmuch as Ye Did It Not” is a full page poem by E. Nesbit which is surrounded by James A. Preston illustrations
  • “The Glutton of the Great Snow” by Charles G.D. Roberts and illustrated by Paul Bransom with drawings of a wolverine doing battle with a lynx and being chased up a tree by wolves
  • The Workingman’s Wife – The Miner’s Wife by Martha S. Bensley and illustrated by Emlen McConnell
  • The Art of Handling Men – Making Work a Game by James H. Collins and illustrated by F.L. Fithian
  • The Mastery of the Pacific – Seattle by Samuel G. Blythe
  • Narcissus, the Near Poet — A Serial picking up from Chapter 2 — by Annulet Andrews and illustrated by Lester Ralph
  • Who’s Who and Why – Serious and Frivolous Facts About the Great and the Near Great
  • Young Lord Stranleigh – The Rajah and Her Captain by Robert Barr and illustrated by George Gibbs
  • Your Savings – The Weekly Bank Statement: What it Is and Means
  • In the Open – American Sportsmen Abroad – Yachts and Amateur Sailors by “Fair-Play”
  • Launching an Author – The Literary Fame Factory and How the Machinery Works by Isaac F. Marcosson
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    1907-06-22 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1907/06/22 — Cover design by Oliver Kemp

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

  • Which College for the Boy? Wisconsin : The Utilitarian University by John Corbin
  • “The Hoodwinking of Apollo” by William Chester Estabrook and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • Home Doctoring – Some Uses, Abuses and Fallacies of Household Medicine by Woods Hutchinson M.D. and illustrated by Gustavus C. Widney
  • “An Overdose” by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by Karl Anderson
  • “A Six-Cylinder Courtship” — A serial picking up from chapter 9 — by Edward Salisbury Field and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • Wall-Street Type Men with photo of F.A. Vanderslip
  • In the Open – Kicking Among the Spectators – The Get-There Spirit – What Are Rules For? by “Fair-Play”
  • Your Savings – Pitfalls for Investors
  • Literary Folk – Their Ways and Their Work with photo of John Corbin
  • Quarter-page ad for American Express Travelers Cheques
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    1906-11-17 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1906/11/17 — Cover artist is unknown for this issue.

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

  • “The Haunted Bell” by Jacques Futrelle and illustrated by J.J. Gould
  • “Puppy Love” by Edwin L. Sabin
  • “Brand Whitlock — Novelist, Lawyer, and Mayor” by Alfred Henry Lewis with photo of Whitlock and illustrations by J.J. Gould
  • “A Celestial Combination — Dealing with the Ascendency of Mercury and the Satellites of Wun Lo” by Kennett Harris and illustrated by Gustavus P. Widney
  • “The Night-Shift at Our Schools” by I.K. Friedman with illustrations by Arthur G. Dove
  • “The Vampire City” a poem by Reginald Wright Kauffman with illustrations by John Boyd
  • “Sampson Rock of Wall Street” part of a serial by Edwin Lefevre and illustrated by The Kinneys
  • “Who’s Who and Why”
  • “The Seat of Judgement — Patrick Sarsfield and Frenzied Finance” by Maude L. Radford and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “After the Pennant — The Stars of the Diamond and the Fancies of the Fans — A Talk With Fielder Allison Jones, Manager– World’s Champions, The Chicago White Sox” — Scanning the article I see mention of Nick Altrock, Ed Walsh, Cap Anson, Bill Lange, Frank Isbell and of course Charlie Comiskey
  • Player Folk — includes mention of May Robson and Ethel Barrymore
  • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: The House of Kuppenheimer*, The Prudential*, Waterman;s Ideal Fountain Pen*, Parker Pens*, Mallory Cravenette Hats*, Perfection Oil Heater from Standard Oil Company, US Playing Card Co.*, Smith & Wesson*, American Cigar Company*, Jello*, Gillette*, Iver Johnson’s Arms and Cycle Works*, Oldsmobile*, Winton Motor Carriage Co.*, Remington Typewriter*, Mitchell Motor Car Co*, Packard*, and a Christian Herald ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

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    1906-10-27 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1906/10/27 — Cover design by Edward Penfield.

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

  • “Lessons in Practical Finance — The Services Rendered by a Trust Company” by Charles G. Dawes
  • “A Kid’s Composition: by Henry A. Shute
  • “The Gallery-God” by Rupert Hughes
  • “Vaiti of the Islands: part 5 of 5 by Beatrice Grimshaw and illustrated by H.G. Williamson
  • “Who’s Who and Why” about Dr. Charlie McCarthy
  • “Faking for Fame — The Confession of a Press-Agent” by Will A. Page and illustrated by Horace Taylor
  • “Sampson Rock of Wall Street” by Edwin Lefevre (part of a serial) and illustrated by The Kinneys
  • “The Making of An American School-Teacher” by Forrest Crissey, part 2 of 3 about Edwin G. Cooley
  • “The Demagogue in Public Life” by Senator Albert J. Beveridge
  • “A Specialist in Failures — Doctor Carrington, Physician and Surgeon for Commercial and Social Ills” by George M. Bayne
  • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Holeproof Hosiery, Keen Kutter, Cadillac*, Pompeian Massage Soap, Gillette*, Winton Motor Carriage Co.*, Oldsmobile on the inside back cover, and a Colgate’s Shaving Stick ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

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    1906-10-20 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1906/10/20 — Cover design by Charles Livingston Bull.

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

  • “High Speed: English and American Railroad Flyers” by Owen Wister
  • “Moran of Massachussetts: The Man Who Stands for More Laws and Better” by Alfred Henry Lewis about John Brown Moran
  • “The Man-Animal” by Emerson Hough and illustrated by Philip R. Goodwin
  • “Letters to Women in Love” by Mrs. John Van Vorst and illustrated by Karl Anderson
  • “Sampson Rock of Wall Street” by Edwin Lefevre and illustrated by The Kinneys
  • “Who’s Who and Why” mostly about Mayor James N. Adam of Buffalo
  • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: The House of Kuppenheimer*, The Prudential*, Rambler from Thomas B. Jeffrey & Company*, Ivory Soap ad illustrated by T.K. Hanna, Regina Co. Pianos*, Streit Furniture, Remington Typewriter*, Mallory Cravenette Hats*, “Make Money Exhibiting Motion Pictures” from Edison Kinetoscope*, Winslow’s Skates*, Lea & Perrins Sauce*, the Victor Company*, Smith & Wesson*, Mitchell Motor Car Co.*, Atkins Saws*, Iver Johnson’s Arms and Cycle Works*, Nabisco Sugar Wafers*, and a Williams’ Shaving Stick ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

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    1906-10-13 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1906/10/13 — Cover design by F.R. Gruger.

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

  • “Sampson Rock of Wall Street” by Edwin Lefevre and illustrated by the Kinneys
  • “The Great American Steer — The Innocent Trail Drover” by Emerson Hough
  • “Who’s Who and Why” is about Roger Sullivan and Sir Caspar Pardon Clarke
  • “Vaiti of the Islands” part 4 of 5 by Beatrice Grimshaw and illustrated by H.G. Williamson
  • “At Paderewski’s Villa” by William Armstrong
  • “The Yellow Streak — And How it Came to the Surface” by Will Payne and illustrated by Rollin Kirby
  • “The Party Fetich — Patriotism or Partyism: A Straight Conscience vs. a Straight Vote” by Brand Whitlock, Mayor of Toledo
  • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Pope Motor Car Company*, Armour, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes*, Jell-O*, American Cigar Company*, Jap-A-Lac Varnish, Colt’s New Pocket Positive*, Packard*, Oldsmobile*, Winton Motor Carraige Co.*, Duplex Phonograph*, Cadillac*, and a Regal Shoes ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

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    1905-08-05 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/08/05 — Cover design by Guernsey Moore

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

  • Old-Fashioned Honesty and the Coming Man: A Plea for Higher Education of the Sort that Makes Better Citizens by Grover Cleveland
  • A Round-Up in Central Park: In Which Cupid Follows a Trans-Continental Trail by Eleanor Gates with three illustrations by N.C. Wyeth
  • The Adventure of the Counterfeiters by S.M. Gardenhire and illustrated by Gordon Grant
  • Wall Street and Public Money: Early History of the Equitable in the Light of Recent Disclosures by Will Payne and illustrated by L.M. Blumenthal
  • The Lady and the Ladder: The Annals of an American Countess by Harrison Rhodes and illustrated by Karl Anderson, serialized story picks up from Chapter IX in this issue
  • A Cycle of Cathay: Wherein “Holy Joe” Makes and Braks the Amalgamated Laundrymen by Vincent Harper and illustrated by Harry E. Townsend
  • How and Why We Ought to Swim: An Ancient Sport Which Should Be Part of the Education of Every Modern Man by Rex E. Beach
  • The Reading Table
  • Literary Folk–Their Ways and Their Work
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    1905-06-24 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/06/24 — Cover design by Unknown — There is a signature but my source does not identify it and I cannot read it well enough to state it. If I had to guess I’d say it looks like S.S. Runyon.

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

  • The Real Defenders of Property by William Jennings Bryan and illustrated by C.A. Strehlau
  • “The Milpitas Maiden” A Story of Some Women’s Rights and Others’ Sufferance by Miram Michelson and illustrated by Gordon Grant
  • “Dear Little, Queer Little Man” a poem by J.W. Foley
  • “The Tracer of Lost Persons” A Pursuit of the Ideal and the Attainment of Happiness by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by Clarence Underwood, a serial picking up at Chapter 2
  • “In the Hands of the Law” The Story of a Receiver Who Really Received by Will Payne and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “The Memoirs of an American” by Robert Herrick and illustrated by F.B. Masters, serialized story picking up at Chapter XXVII
  • The Wood Fire in Number Three – Some Close Calls by F. Hopkinson Smith and illustrated by Bayard Jones
  • The Reading Table
  • Very Cheap Living in London by James L. Ford
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    1905-06-17 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/06/17 — Cover design by Edward Penfield

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

  • The Tracer of Lost Persons by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by Clarence Underwood
  • The Penalties of Poverty – Why It Costs the Poor More than the Rich to Live Decently – by David Graham Phillips
  • A Corner in Jurisdiction by Hugh Pendexter and illustrated by Martin Justice
  • American Salesmen Abroad – A “Side Line” of Steel Rails – by Henry Harrison Lewis and illustrated by James Preston
  • “The Memoirs of an American” — serial picking up from Chapter 15 — by Robert Herrick and illustrated by F.B. Masters
  • The Riddle of Heredity by Rene Bache
  • Back cover features and ad from Peerless Iceland Freezer with a large color illustration by Elizabeth Shipper Green
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    1905-05-20 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/05/20 — Cover design by N.C. Wyeth

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

  • The Young Man in the World: The Young Man and the New Home by Senator Albert J. Beveridge
  • In Harden’s Place: A Telephone Story With Love on the Wire by J.E. Calkins and illustrated by Hy S. Watson
  • Mr. Scraggs Intervenes by Henry Wallace Phillips with three illustrations by N.C. Wyeth
  • With the Old-Time Players: Memories of Actors and Actresses of Bygone Years by Rebecca Harding Davis with illustration by Herman C. Wall
  • The Memoirs of an American by Robert Herrick and illustrated by F.B. Masters, serialized story picking up at Chapter XV
  • The Wood Fire in Number Three: MacWhirter’s Footpad by F. Hopkinson Smith and illustrated by Bayard Jones
  • The Cartoon Prophet: How He Plays Heads-I-Win-Tails-You-Lose, and is Beaten Only by the Weather by John T. McCutcheon and illustrated by the author
  • The Whimsical Consumer: Color, Not Quality, Is What He Seeks in Food by Rene Bache
  • Literary Folk – Their Ways and Their Work
  • The Reading Table
  • A New Way of Printing
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    1905-05-13 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/05/13 — Cover design by Guernsey Moore.

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

  • The Good Gray Poet at Home – His Familiar Talks fo Men, Letters and Events by Horace Traubel with photos of Traubel and Walt Whitman
  • The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont by Robert Barr and illustrated by Emlen McConnell
  • A Modest Home for Five Million by Rene Bache
  • Seeking Investment by George Carling with illustrations by Hy S. Watson
  • The Memoirs of an American by Robert Herrick and illustrated by F.B. Masters, serialized story picks up with Chapter 13
  • The Trail of the Serpent – America’s Clamor of Corruption and What It Really Means by David Graham Phillips with small illustration by F.X. Leyendecker
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    1905-04-15 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/04/15 — Cover design by Guernsey Moore.

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

  • The Wood Fire in Number Three: The Story of the Wandering Opal and Whither It Went by F. Hopkinson Smith and illustrated by Bayard Jones
  • An Uncle Remus Rhyme – Mr. Rabbit and His Big Boo-hoo by Joel Chandler Harris with illustration by Emlen McConnell (half-page)
  • Fair Railroad Regulation: Government Control Vital by Robert M. Lafollette
  • How Higgins Regenerated Hermon: Showing that Country Folks Know When a Good Thing Comes Their Way by Holman Day and illustrated by F.L. Fithian
  • Medical Miracles: Pasteur as the Epic Sower of Ideas by Arthur E. McFarlane with illustrations by Carl A. Strehlau
  • The Memoirs of an American by Robert Herrick and illustrated by F.B. Masters — Serialized, picks up with Chapter VI
  • Common-Sense in City Rule: The Law and the Home by Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago
  • Ad for Franklin automobiles on back cover
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    1905-04-08 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/04/08 — Cover design by Charles Livingston Bull – Spring Fiction Number

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

  • Going Against the Octopus – How Kansas Is Getting Ready to Do Battle With Standard Oil – by Philip Eastman with photos of Senator Fred Dumont Smith, Governor E.W. Hoch, Senator Samuel Porter
  • “Mother’s Eyes” by Morgan Shepard and illustrated by Albert Sterling
  • “Love Letters of Plupy Shute” by Henry A. Shute and illustrated by W. Glackens
  • “The Sea-Goers” by Emery Pottle and illustrated by S. Werner
  • The Finding of Nicholas by Octave Thanet and illustrated by Emlen McConnell
  • “Why the Weekly Planet Died” by Alfred Henry Lewis and illustrated by N.C. Wyeth – 4 Wyeth illustrations
  • “The Memoirs of an American” — a serial picking up from Chapter 4 — by Robert Herrick and illustrated by F.B. Masters
  • At the Court of the Czar by Madame Nordica with photo of the author
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    1905-04-01 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/04/01 — Cover design by F.B. Masters.

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

  • The Memoirs of an American – Part 1 of the serialized classic – by Robert Herrick and illustrated by F.B. Masters
  • The Elopement is fiction by Zona Gale and illustrated by Herman C. Wall
  • Mr. Hamshaw’s Love Affair is fiction by George Barr McCutcheon and illustrated by Will Grefe
  • Tales of the Road – First Experiences in Selling – by Charles N. Crewdson with illustrations by J.J. Gould
  • The Cares of a Caretaker is a 10-stanza poem by Wallace Irwin with J.J. Gould illustration
  • A Social Secretary – The Commentaries of a Caesar in Skirts with illustrations by Clarence T. Underwood
  • The Legislative Lobby – Big Business and Little Legislators by R.M. LaFollette, Senator-Elect from Wisconsin
  • The Cow of a Poor Man by Rene Bache
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