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1904-06-04 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1904/06/04 — Cover design by James Preston

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

  • The Mystery of the Five Hundred Diamonds: An Account of the Further Adventures of the Marie Antoinette Necklace by Robert Barr and illustrated by Clarence T. Underwood
  • The Time-Table of True Love: The Story of a Courtship that Did Not Run on Schedule by W.D. Nesbit and illustrated by F.B. Masters
  • Japan Through My Camera by Zaida Ben Yusuf
  • How to Pick a Son-in-Law by James L. Ford and illustrated by F.V. Wilson

  • Hurricane Island by H.B. Marriott Watson and illustrated by Karl Anderson, serialized story picks up from Chapter VIII
  • Sequil, or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First by Henry A. Shute and illustrated by W. Glackens

  • Miller’s Sweet Pea Soap by Charles Battell Loomis

  • The Hen a poem by Edmund Vance Cooke
  • An American in New York by Opie Read
  • Literary Folk – Their Ways and Their Work

    • 1904-05-28 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1904/05/28 — Cover design by Henry Hutt

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

  • The Boom in the Northwest – With Pick and Shovel in the Mining Camps of Montana, Wyoming and Idaho by William Allen White
  • How Mister Mockingbird Learned to Sing is a 9 stanza poem by Frank L. Stanton
  • The Lure of Department Life by Champ Clark
  • The Little White Liars by Lloyd Osborne and illustrated by Emlen McConnell

  • The Finish – As the Bridegroom Told It – by Rex Beach and illustrated by Martin Justice
  • The Hill Lines – And the Remarkable Personality Behind Them – by Frank H. Spearman
  • Hurricane Island by H.B. Marriott Watson and illustrated by Karl Anderson, is a serialized story picking up with Chapter 7 this issue

  • Sequil, or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First by Henry A. Shute and illustrated by W. Glackens
  • The Shave-Store is a poem by Edmund Vance Cooke
  • The Bucanneers by Henry M. Hyde and illustrated by F.R. Gruger, is a serialization picking up here with Part 3
  • Oddities & Novelties of Every-Day Science

    • 1904-04-30 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1904/04/30 — Cover design by Karl Anderson

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

  • Hurricane Island by H.B. Marriott Watson and illustrated by Karl Anderson is the first part of a serialized story

  • The Harriman Lines – And the Man Who Saves Millions By Spending Millions by Frank H. Spearman, with photos
  • A Democratic Princess – A Double-Barreled Romance – by George Hibbard and illustrated by Emlen McConnell
  • Missouri’s Candidate – An Informal Nomaination for the Presidency by Champ Clark with photo of General Francis Marion Cockrell
  • The Lady Noggs, Peeress by Edgar Jepson and illustrated by Emlen McConnell
  • Sequil, or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First by Henry A. Shute and illustrated by W. Glackens

  • Japan Through My Camera by Zaida Ben Yusuf

  • Alligator Lore by George Horton with drawing by H.L. Sayen
  • Practical Points in Business Correspondence by Forrest Crissey

    • 1904-04-16 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1904/04/16 — Cover design by James Preston

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

  • Anderson Crow, Detective: A Chronicle of Complications by George Barr McCutcheon
  • Where the Money Came From: The Growth of the Astor Estate by Arthur E. McFarlane with photos of various Astors
  • The Outsiders: A Business Man’s Story by Elliott Flower and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • An Amiable Tyrant: The Speaker and His Rule of Gag by Alfred Henry Lewis with photos of Joseph G. Cannon, David B. Henderson,. Thomas B. Reed, and Charles F. Crisp
  • Little Miss Bauermeister by William Armstrong
  • The “Lady’s Book” a poem by Joseph C. Lincoln (slightly under a half-page)

  • Sequil, or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First by Henry A. Shute and illustrated by W. Glackens
  • The Singular Miss Smith by Florence Morse Kingsley and illustrated by Will Grefe

  • The Twentieth Century Bank: A New Development of Modern Finance by Ivy Lee
  • Literary Folk – Their Ways and Their Work
  • Why the Maple Makes Maple Sugar by Rene Bache

    • 1904-04-09 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1904/04/09 — Cover design by Guernsey Moore.

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

  • Russia: Our Friend in Need by Col. John S. Cooper
  • Sequil, or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First by Henry A. Shute

  • Gougar Brothers’ Waterloo – The Other Side of a Bull Market by Octave Thanet and illustrated by Emlen McConnell

  • Policies and People by Alfred Henry Lewis

  • Old Gorgon Graham – by The Author of Letters froma Self-Made Merchant to His Son (George Horace Lorimer) and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • An American in New York by Opie Read and illustrated by Emlen McConnell
  • The Singular Miss Smith by Florence Morse Kingsley and illustrated by Will Grefe
  • The Social Life of Freaks – What the People of the Side Show Do Out of Business Hours by James L. Ford, article makes mention of the recently deceased “JoJo the Dog-Faced Boy”, “Siamese Twins”, “Turtle Boy”
  • The Suburbanite – How to Beautify Your Grounds by Harold Bolce
  • Oddities and Novelties of Every-Day Science

  • The Reading Table includes “Correct Matilda” a poem by Jennie Betts Hartswick
  • What They Are Reading in England

    • 1904-01-16 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1904/01/16 — Cover design by J.J. Gould

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

  • The Fight for Pittsburg: The Siege and Defense of the Gibraltar of the Railroad World by Frank H. Spearman
  • Uncle Remus Rhymes by Joel Chandler Harris — “The Three-Headed Woman and the Dinner-Pot” and “Why the Frog Has No Tail” — full page with illustrations by Emlen McConnell
  • The Diary of a Matchmaker by Harrison Rhodes and illustrated by Will Grefe
  • The Substitute Manager: He Found That It Makes a Difference Whose Ox is Gored by Elliott Flower and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • The Discoverers is a half-page poem by Wallace Irwin with illustration by Henry E. Townsend
  • Great Men and Dress by William Matthews and illustrated by James Preston
  • A Senator of Two Republics: Thomas F. Bayard by G.G. Vest, ex-Senator from Missouri
  • The Cost by David Graham Phillips with three illustrations by Harrison Fisher
  • Can the Democrats Elect a President? by David Graham Phillips
  • Kansas Fakes: The Father of Them All was Born in 1541, and He Left a Large Family by Philip Eastman
  • The Delegate’s Walk: A Stormy Tale of a Storm Door by Charles Battell Loomis
  • Literary Folk – Their Ways and Their Work

    • 1903-12-19 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1903/12/19 — Cover design by Guernsey Moore

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

  • Revolutions to Order by Richard Harding Davis and illustrations by James Preston
  • The Morton Marriage by Harrison Rhodes and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • Roosevelt’s Plans and Roosevelt’s Perils — Some of the Likely Moves in the Great Game of Politics by Alfred Henry Lewis
  • “Baking Day” a poem by Betty Sage
  • Muggins Tarney’s Tinkerings by Alvah Milton Kerr and illustrated by W. Glackens
  • The Autocrat of Bayreuth – How Madame Wagner Rules Her Little World With a Conductor’s Baton by William Armstrong
  • “The Cost” — A serial picking up from Chapter 11 — by David Graham Phillips and illustrated by Harrison Fisher
  • Men & Women of the Hour
  • The Business Side of the Big Unions by I.K. Friedman
  • “Chronicles of the Little Tot – The Grand Lama, Jr.” a poem by Edmund Vance Cooke
  • Confessions of a Letter Writer by Charles Battell Loomis
  • Literary Folk — Their Ways and Their Work
  • The Telephone Mail by E.I. Lewis

    • 1903-12-12 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1903/12/12 — Cover design by F. Walter Taylor

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

  • The Hand of Russia in the East by Albert J. Beveridge and illustrated by J.J. Gould
  • The Business Side of the Big Unions by I.K. Friedman and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • The Servant Question in America – A Man’s Solution for a Woman’s Problems — by Harrison Rhodes with drawing by F.V. Wilson
  • The Steal by William Hamilton Osborne and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • Following the Circus — Part 5: Circus People — by Arthur McFarlane and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • The Cost — Serial picking up from Chapter 10 — by David Graham Phillips and illustrated by Harrison Fisher
  • ‘Dam White — A Parable of the Open Door by Charles Battell Loomis
  • Literary Folk – Their Ways and Their Work

    • 1903-12-05 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1903/12/05 — Cover design by Clarence F. Underwood

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

  • The Mission of Fishing and Fisherman by Grover Cleveland
  • Old Gorgon Graham by the Author of Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son and illustrated by Martin Justice
  • The Unforseen Reminder by Hamblen Sears and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • Letters to Santa Claus – Opened at Washington by the Clerks of the Dead Letter Office — by Rene Bache and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • The Chayote – A Phenomenal Plant by Harold Bolce
  • Fortune’s Shadow by Elliott Flower
  • The Autograph Hunter – The Sins of Omission and Commission by Which He Makes Himself Odious to the Hunted Writer – by Robert Barr
  • The Christmas Special – What Santa Claus Brought to the Box-Car Santrys – by Frank H. Spearman and illustrated by Emlen McConnell
  • Waifs of the Fields by Ernest Harold Baynes
  • Bringing Back the Birds by Allister Burford
  • The Cost — a serial picking up from Chapter 8 — by David Graham Phillips and illustrated by Harrison Fisher – 3 illustrations by Fisher
  • The Making of a Sport by Emery Pottle and illustrated by May Wilson Watkins
  • Wallack No Actor by A.M. Palmer
  • Reuniuon at Mother Goose’s by Carolyn Wells with decoration by J.J. Gould
  • A Carol of Gifts by Richard Burton
  • Archibald the Unpleasant by E. Nesbit and illustrated by Elizabeth Shippen Green
  • Christmas at Court – How the Rulers of the World Celebrate the Day of Days – by Harold MacFarlane
  • “The Old-Time Fiddling Match” — a poem by Frank L. Stanton
  • The Mendicant Mariner’s Christmas by Philip Loring Allen and illustrated by H.L. Sayen
  • Oddities & Novelties of Every-Day Science
  • Christmas at the White House One Hundred Years Ago – with images of Thomas Jefferson, Mrs. Martha Jefferson and Dolly Madison
  • Literary Folk – Their Ways & Their Work
  • The Boss — Part of a serial picking up from Chapter 28 – by Alfred Henry Lewis

    • 1903-11-21 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1903/11/21 — Cover design by Guernsey Moore

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

  • For Good Crops–Thanks by Clarence H. Matson
  • The New York Business Man – The Westerner Regards His With Admiration and Dislike – by Opie Read with drawing by J.J. Gould
  • “Sails” a poem by George Horton
  • The Generosity of Miser Flinton by Arthur E. McFarlane and illustrated by Martin Justice
  • Combination and the Workingman by Charles R. Flint
  • The Retroactive Wager by Hamblen Sears and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • Gastronomy and Gastronomes by Dr. William Mathews
  • The Cost — A serial picking up from Chapter 3 — by David Graham Phillips and illustrated by Harrison Fisher
  • A page of poetry with work by Joseph C. Lincoln – Paul Laurence Dunbar – Nixon Waterman – Frank L. Stanton – A. Porter Rex
  • The Price to Pay by Anne Elizabeth O’Hare and illustrated by F.B. Masters
  • The Boss — A serial picking up from Chapter 25 — by Alfred Henry Lewis and illustrated by W. Glackens
  • Men and Women of the Hour
  • The Reading Table
  • How Your Picture Gets in the Paper by H.J. Mahin
  • The House of the Red Shield — The Rothschilds in Europe To-Day — by Vance Thompson
  • The New York Curb Market by Charles E. Marks
  • The County Fair by Holman F. Day

    • 1903-11-14 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1903/11/14 — Cover design by Harrison Fisher

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

  • The Cost — The first part of a serialized story — by David Graham Phillips and illustrated by Harrison Fisher
  • Britain’s Bread — If Mr. Chamberlain’s Bold Plan Should Be Adopted, a Dearer Loaf for the People and an International Commercial War Would Probably Result — by William C. Edgar with photo of Joseph Chamberlain
  • Following the Circus — Part 3: On the Lot — by Arthur E. McFarlane and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • The Professor of Greek – How He Found the Hellenes Again — by Arthur Stringer and illustrated by Emlen McConnell
  • High Life and Higher Education — Is the Growth of Luxury a Menace in American Colleges? — by John Corbin
  • The Boss – A serial picking up from Chapter 23 — by Alfred Henry Lewis and illustrated by W. Glackens
  • Changing Water Into Cash — The Latest Phrasing for a New Way to Pay Old Debts — by Edwin Lefevre
  • 2-page ad in the center of the issue from the Rock Island System in Chicago for “Oklahoma — An Opportunity” with photos of an Oklahoma corn crop and the streets of 15-year old Oklahoma City which already has a population of about 35,000
  • Literary Folk — Their Ways and Their Work
  • The Reading Table
  • First Principles for the College Man by Charles F. Thwing, L.L. D.
  • “Miss Mariar” — a poem by Betty Sage

    • 1903-01-24 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1903/01/24 — Cover design by Harrison Fisher.
    “The January Special Number”

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

  • “Tales of a Country Town — The Identification of ‘Bronco Jim'” by George Ade and illustrated by Will Grefe
  • “A Ballad of White Water Men” by Holfan F. Day
  • “How Roosevelt Got His First Second-Term” with illustration by J.J. Gould
  • “The Admirable Tinker” by Edgar Jepson — Tinker’s Foundling, and illustrated by H.R. Gruger
  • “Golden Fleece — The American Adventures of a Fortune-Hunting Earl” by David Graham Phillips and illustrated by Harrison Fisher. Part of a serialization opening here with Chapter V
  • “Men and Measures” by Charles Emory Smith
  • “The Pit” by Frank Norris and illustrated by Will Grefe — Part of a serialization picking up with Chapter XiX
  • “Unsolved” by Ian Maclaren, “An Unseen Presence — The Writing Man’s Narrative of a Mystery of His College Days”, with illustration by Emlen McConnell

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Ivory Soap*, The Prudential*, Lifebuoy Soap*, “The Angelus” from the Wilcox & White Co.*, “The Modern Watchmen” from Dueber Hampden Watchworks*, Smith & Mabley*, Remington Typewriter*, the Union Buggy Company*, “The Wing Piano” from Wing & Son*, The Smith Premier Typewriter*, Walter Baker’s Cocoa & Chocolate, Daisy Rifle, a quarter-page ad for “The Pit by the Late Frank Norris” from Doubleday, Page & Co.*, Rambler Touring Car from Thomas B. Jeffrey & Co.*, Iver Johnson Revolvers “will stand the test of the most critical inspection”8, Williams’ Shaving Soap*, full-page from The Winton Motor Carriage Co. on the inside back cover, and Ralston Purina Cereals on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1903-01-10 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1903/01/10 — Cover design by Harrison Fisher.

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

  • “Golden Fleece – The American Adventures of a Fortune-Hunting Earl” by David Graham Phillips and illustrated by Harrison Fisher
  • “The Unknown Morgan” by One Who Knows Him, about J.P. Morgan
  • “Lord Curzon” by Sydney Brooks
  • “A Measure of Wheat” by Edgar L. Hampton
  • “A Peculiar People” by Rebecca Harding Davis and illustrated by J.J. Gould
  • “The Pit” by Frank Norris and illustrated by Will Grefe — Part of a serialization picking up with Chapter XVII
  • “Men and Measures” by Charles Emory Smith
  • “The Poets at a House-Party” by Carolyn Wells
  • The Rubber Industry in South America

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Congress Playing Cards*, Rock Island System*, “The Pianola” from The Aeolian Company*, Lifebuoy Soap*, Barney & Berry Skates*, Stein-Bloch Smart Clothes*, “Men Wanted” from the Booklovers Library, “Panhard. Renault. and C.G.V. Mercedes. The synonyms for perfection in Automobile construction of two continents” from Smith & Mabley*, Nabisco Sugar Wafers from National Biscuit Company*, “H & R Single Gun” from Harrington & Richardson Arms Co.*, The Marlin Firearms Co.*, “Only $600 Direct from the Factory” from the International Motor Car Co.*, National-Electric Vehicles*, Remington Typewriters*, Hoffman Automobile*, full-page for Alois P. Swoboda on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1902-11-01 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1902/11/01 — Cover design by Harrison Fisher.

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

  • “The Beauty-Woman” by Charles Macomb Flandrau and illustrated by William L. Jacobs
  • “The Passing of the Old-School Lawyer” by W.J. Calhoun and illustrated by Henderson Betts
  • “The Beggars’ Club” by I.K. Friedman and illustrated by William J. Glackens
  • “Deep-Sea Salvage” by Morgan Robertson
  • “The Settlement With Shanhai Smith” by Morley Roberts and illustrated by George Gibbs
  • “The Pit” by Frank Norris and illustrated by Will Grefe — Part of a serialization picking up with Chapter VII
  • Impertinent Poems by Edmund Vance Cooke

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Oldsmobile*, B. Kuppenheimer & Co.*, Andrews Heating Co.*, Johnson’s Prepared Wax*, full-page for “The Stone Method” from The Stone School of Physical Culture, Nabisco Sugar Wagers from National Biscuit Company*, Florsheim Shoes*, Wright’s Health Underwear*, Pears’ Soap*, “Stevens’ Special Catalogue of Cloaks, Suits, Furs, Etc.” from Chas. A. Stevens & Bros.*, Lilliput Stereoscope Co.*, The Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford*, “$3,000 for Photographs” from Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.*, “They Play Washburn Mandolins, Guitars and Banjos” from Lyon & Healy*, Sandow’s Greatest Offer*, full-page for Rock Island System on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))