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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 (*))