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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 (*))