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1913-12-20 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1913/12/20 — Cover design by J.C. Leyendecker

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

  • “The Business of Going to Sea” by John Fleming Wilson and illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer
  • “A Week on the Big Time” by Helen Van Campen and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • “Every Man’s Castle” by Benjamin A. Howes and illustrated by John R. Neill
  • “Other People’s Shoes” by Fannie Hurst and illustrated by J.J. Gould
  • “An Amiable Charlatan” by E. Phillips Oppenheim and illustrated by Will Grefe
  • “The Forlorn Philanthropist: Is It More Blessed to Give Than to Receive!” by Charles Whiting Williams and illustrated by James M. Preston
  • “Autobiography of a Happy Woman: When the Ego in Front of One’s Eye Shuts Out the Universe” illustrated by Fanny Munsell
  • “Who’s Who and Why” appears to be about Cordell Hull
  • “Men” by Edward Mott Woolley

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: On the inside front cover is a Cream of Wheat ad painted by Edward V. Brewer featuring Rastus titled “Forty Winks”, Crisco, Victor-Victrola, Grape-Nuts*, King Air Rifles, Colgate’s Shaving Lather*, Empire Automobile Co.*, Hotel La Salle*, Stag Tobacco, Towle’s Log Cabin Syrup*, Maxwell Motor Co., Tuxedo Tobacco, and Gold Medal Flour on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))