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1906-04-12 The Youth’s Companion Magazine Contents

1906/04/12 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Easter Number – Volume 80, No. 15 – April 12, 1906.

Contents as taken from paging through this issue are as follows:

  • The Girl Next Door — A Tale of Easter Day — by Mabel Nelson Thurston with drawing by H. Burgess
  • A Sunday Visit by F.E.C. Robbins with drawing by H. Burgess
  • “Melindy” and the Lynxes by Charles G.D. Roberts with drawings by Ernest Fosbery
  • Harry Harding’s Last Year by Arthur Stanwood Pier with drawing by Ernest Fosbery
  • The Convalescent, a poem by Agnes Lee
  • American Homes and Hospitality by Pastor Charles Wagner with photo of the Pastor
  • The Brakeman on the “Sweet Bye and Bye” by May McHenry with drawings by F. Strothmann
  • Down the Incline by Charles Newton Hood with drawing by W.F. Stecher
  • Learning a Trade — A Series of Papers by Edward Williston Frentz — Part XII. Typesetting
  • The Twisted Knee, poem by David C. Gale
  • A Bird’s Egg, poem by Frank Dempster Sherman

    • CHILDREN’S PAGE:

  • An Easter Mystery, poem by Nannie Byrd Turner with drawing by Waunita Smith
  • Lula’s Easter Offering by Elizabeth Hill
  • Best of All, poem by Minnie Leona Upton

    • Notable advertising includes: “Top of the Morning” ad featuring Rastus for Cream of Wheat*, Ivory Soap*, Spalding’s Encyclopedia of Baseball*, Parker Pen*, full-page for Jap-A-Lac Varnish, Chiclets*, Domino Sugar*, Wizard Repeating Liquid Pistol*, Nabisco*, Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pen*, The New No. 3 Folding Brownie from Eastman Kodak*, Quaker Oats*, Heinz*, Swift’s Premium Hams and Bacon*, and an ad for Hinds’ Honey and Almond Cream on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.