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1906-12-20 The Youth’s Companion Magazine Contents

1906/12/20 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Christmas Number 1906 – Volume 80, No. 51 – December 20, 1906 — Cover illustration attributed to Ernest Fosbery.

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

  • Mr. Plunkett’s Protege by George Madden Martin with drawing by Ernest Fosbery
  • The Young Nation: Tales of Peace and War — American History Stories, Second Story of Third Group — The Quality of Courage by William R. Lighton with drawing by H.C. Edwards
  • The Long Trail by Hamlin Garland, Chapter 3 of 10, with drawing by H. Burgess
  • The Prettiest Cat in Wien by Ellis Meredith with drawing by W.F. Stecher
  • Modern Occupations for Women — Part VI – Gymnastics and Physical Culture — by Edward Williston Frentz
  • The Settlement of Disputes “Individual and National” by the Hon. David J. Brewer, Justice of the United States Supreme Court
  • Cota’s Defense by Herbert Coolidge with drawing by Griswold Tyng
  • Are You Going Home, poem by Hugh J. Hughes
  • Christmas Eve, poem by Edith Hope Kinney

    • CHILDREN’S PAGE:

  • A Happy Tree, poem by Cara W. Bronson
  • Three of Them, poem by Laura E. Richards
  • Mildred’s Gift by Mary C. Callan
  • The Christmas Doll by Eva Earll Furlong
  • A Christmas Messenger drawing by Florence England Nosworthy

    • Notable advertising includes: Quaker Oats*, Ivory Soap*, Waterman’s Ideal Pen*, Packard Piano*, Heinz Mince Meat*, Winslow’s Skates*, Nabisco*, full page for Cuticura Medicinal and Toilet Soap, Jell-O*, Cream of Wheat*, and Pear’s Soap is on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.