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1909-02-06 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1909/02/06 — Cover design by Harrison Fisher

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

  • “A Waiting Patriot — Washington Impressions of a Willing Worker Who is Expecting a Job” by Samuel G. Blythe
  • “Deadheads — Why So Many People See the Play for Nothing” by Walter Prichard Eaton and illustrated by May Wilson Preston
  • “Those Contented Clerks — The Broad Line Between Making Good and Making Money” by Will Payne and illustrated by Francis V. Wilson
  • “Sacrifice at Potter’s Fold” by Elmore Elliott Peake and illustrated by Emlen McConnell
  • “The Lure of the Decoration — Queer Incidents in the Quest of Ribboned Stars and Crosses” by E. Alexander Powell, FRGS
  • “Kicked Into Millions — How Lady Luck Scrapes Acquaintance” by Henry M. Hyde and illustrated by R.F. Thomson
  • “The Bubble Bank” part of a serial in which “Young Wallingford Conducts a Unique Speculation in Genuine Black Mud” by George Randolph Chester and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • “Who’s Who and Why”
  • “Thrift — Making Ends Meet and Putting Something By”
  • “Magazine Men” is a half-page of photos of Ellis Parker Butler, Samuel G. Blythe, Harry Snowden Stabler, Harris Dickson, and James H. Collins

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Lenox Chocolates from the New England Confectionery Co on the inside front cover, the Rambler from Thomas B. Jeffery & Company, Ivory Soap, 2-pages from the National Cloak & Suit Co., Victor Talking Machine Co.*, The Columbus Buggy Co., Good Year Tires (mostly text) on the inside back cover, and a beautiful Oldsmobile ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))