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1906-05-31 The Youth’s Companion Magazine Contents

1906/05/31 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Memorial Day 1906 – Volume 80, No. 22 – May 31, 1906 — Cover illustration attributed to Ernest Fosbery.

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

  • The Half-Acre Lot by Elsie Singmaster with drawing by B.J. Rosenmeyer
  • Memorial-Day Desertion by F.E.C. Robbins with drawing by H. Burgess
  • Thebes of the Hunted Gates by H. Rider Haggard with photos from Thebes
  • The Downfall of a Boss — Chapter 5 of 8 — by Adeline Knapp with drawing by George Varian
  • Lame Charlie’s Tole by Franklin Welles Calkins with drawing by H.C. Edwards
  • For Sale or Rent, poem by Nannie Byrd Turner
  • Prairie Windflowers by Charles Moreau Harger

    • CHILDREN’S PAGE:

  • Letty’s Memorial Day by Mary T. Ballard with drawing by Alice Barber Stephens
  • The Roads, poem by Hannah G. Fernald
  • The “Mislocated” Arm by Edith Perry Estes

    • Notable advertising includes: Heniz 57 Varieties*, Ivory Soap*, Cream of Wheat with Rastus*, Pettijohn’s Breakfast Foods*, Perry Mason Company*, Winchester Repeating Arms Co., full page for New Companion Sewing Machine from Perry Mason Company, and an illustrated ad from Eastman Kodak is on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.