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1915-11-13 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1915/11/13 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Tony Sarg.

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

  • “The Thumb Twiddlers” by Rupert Hughes and illustrated by Will Foster
  • “The Last Charge of Forrest’s Calvalry” by Irvin S. Cobb and illustrated by Harvey Dunn
  • “The Booby Prizer” by Leavitt Ashley Knight and illustrated by Martin Justice
  • “Turning Wages into Salary — The Retail Salesman and His Record” by Edward Mott Woolley and illustrated by Charles D. Mitchell
  • “The Blue-Sky Company — In Fine Feathers” by Will Payne and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • “Swan Songs of the Show Shops” by L.B. Yates
  • “A Disappearing Bridegroom” by George Weston and illustrated by T.D. Skidmore
  • “Rich Man, Poor Man: by Maximilian Foster and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “Selling American Stocks Abroad and Buying Them Back Again” by Albert W. Atwood
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Palmolive Soap on the inside front cover, Holeproof Hosiery, Campbell’s Soup*, Pathe Pathephone*, Kirschbaum Clothes*, Daisy Pump Gun*, Quaker Oats*, Iver Johnson Revolver*, 2-page ad for Columbia Grafonola in the middle, Goodyear Wing Foot Air Heels, KisselKar*, Jones Sausage*, Franklin Automobile Co., Dodge Brothers Winter Car*, Saxon Six, Goodyear Truck Tires, Bob-o-links, Cadillac, Mary garden Face Poweder*, Camel Cigarettes (early), Towle’s Log Cabin Syrup, Oldsmobile, Sun-Maid Raisins, Munsingwear on the inside back cover, and a Bull Durham Tobacco ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))