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1900-05-12 Colliers Magazine Contents

1900/05/12 — PARIS EXPOSITION NUMBER

  • Outer cover featuring the Grand Entrance to the Exposition is illustrated by G. Alden Peirson

    • PICTURES:

  • Front Page: President Loubet Inaugerating the Alexander III Bridge
  • Double Page: “In the Cafe des Ambassadeurs” illustrated by A.B. Wenzell

    • Full-page illustrations:

  • Opening Week at the Esposition (photos)
  • The Exhibits of the Nations, Portraits, etc. (photos)
  • Panorama of the Exposition Grounds by Charles Graham
  • “For Paris and the Exposition” by T. de Thulstrup

    • FICTION:

  • “The Blind Piano Tuner — A Romance by Marcel Prevost
  • “The Adventures of a Modest Man” — The First of a Series of Six Stories by Robert W. Chambers

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • The Paris Exposition of 1900 by M. Gabriel Hanotaux
  • The American Exhibit by Thomas W. Cridler, Assistant Secretary of State
  • Student Life in Paris by Frank Norris
  • How to get to the Exposition–a Traveller’s Guide by Walter Littlefield
  • How to visit the Exposition (with a map) by Lionel Strachey
  • The Political Campaign of 1900 — Part 4: The Vice-Presidency — by Henry Loomis Nelson with small photos of Theodore Roosevelt, John Davis Long, James E. Campbell, Robert Treat Paine, George Fred Williams, Francis Vinton Greene, Cushman Kellogg Davis
  • Round the Hearth — Edited by Margaret E. Sangster
  • Sport Travel Adventure — Edited by Walter Camp featuring Athletics in France with track and field photos
  • Photographs of the Great Fire in Ottawa
  • Full page ad: “Put a Kodak in Your Pocket”
  • Full page ad: Sapolio featuring various people of “Spotless Town”
  • Full page ad: Pears’ Soap — “Within the reach of everybody”
  • Full-page ad: Hyomei Antiseptic Soap
  • Loaded with small advertisements of the day, notably a small ad from the Woods Motor Vehicle Company declaring “Prompt Delivery of any style Electric Automobiles”

    • 1900-05-26 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1900/05/26 —

  • Outer cover illustrated by Louis Loeb
  • Inside cover/title page headlined “Fighting in the Trenches — The Royal Munster Fusiliers Defending the Redoubt at Honey New Kloof Where the Boers Opposed Most Desparately the Northward Advance of the British Army Through the Orange Free State”
  • Collier’s Weekly Editorial Page
  • The Work of the Fifty-Sixth Congress by Senator William Pierce Frye, President of the Senate with photo of the Senator
  • “For Our Dead — May 30th” a poem by Clinton Scollard which along with a Louis Loeb painting fill a page
  • Full-page photo: “The Paris Exposition From the Dome of the Trocadero”
  • “The Adventures of a Modest Man” — A serialized story picking up at Chapter 3 — by Robert W. Chambers
  • The Utah Mine Disaster with photos
  • The Political Contest of 1900 — Part 4: The Issue of Imperialism — by Henry Loomis Nelson
  • 8 photos taking up a full page: “Scenes and Incidents at The Paris Exposition”
  • “The Outlaw” — Part 2: The Two Cabs and the Oven — by H.B. Marriott Watson with drawings by C. Harding
  • Center Page: A two-page wide illustration by W.T. Smedley captioned “One for the Hole – A Romance of the Fair Green” showing a couple on the golf course, the man putting while his caddie holds the flag
  • From a Woman’s Viewpoint — Edited by Margaret E. Sangster
  • Sport Travel Adventure — Edited by Walter Camp with drawings by MAx F. Klepper of The Metropolitan Handicap race at Morris Park, NY, followed by a full page containing 7 horizontal photos captioned “Remarkable Photographs of Action,” in this case 4 track and field scenes and 3 horse racing scenes
  • Loaded with small advertisements of the day, notably a small ad from the Woods Motor Vehicle Company declaring “Prompt Delivery of any style Electric Automobiles”

    • 1900-08-18 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1900/08/18 —

  • Outer cover illustrated by ?
  • Inside cover/title page headlined “Good-by, Comrades” and shows Emperor William reviewing German Troops that are about to depart for the theatre of war in China

    • Collier’s Weekly Editorial Page (Note: these are all short enough to appear on one of the over-sized pages):

  • The Exposition a Financial Failure

  • Cuban Independence With a String
  • The Advance of Pekin
  • The Future of the Manchu Dynasty
  • The Assassination of King Humbert
  • Japan’s Work in China
  • Are We at War With China?
  • The Story of the Second Irish Brigade by Arthur Lynch, Commandant in the Boer Army
  • Full-page photo: “A Bird’s Eye View of Suburban Pekin”
  • Oddities of Chinese Life
  • “The Yellow Danger” a poem by Edgar Fawcett
  • A Pilgrimage to Pekin by Stephen Bonsal
  • On the Cape Nome Gold Beach by Tappan Adney, Our Special Correspondent in the Gold Fields of Alaska
  • Full page with 9 photos captioned: “On the Cape Nome Gold Beach”
  • “The Curious Courtship of Kate Poins” — A serialized story picking up from Chapter 12 — by Louis Evan Shipman with drawings by A.I. Keller
  • Center page features a 2-page wide illustration by W.T. Smedley “A Romance of Bar Harbor” featuring couples in row boats
  • A Curious Corner in the Paris Exposition–The Famous Vieux Paris with drawing by T. de Thulstrup
  • From a Woman’s Viewpoint — Edited by Margaret E. Sangster
  • Sport Travel Adventure — Edited by Walter Camp with photos of Paris Athletics and Continental Lawn Tennis
  • Governing in the Southern Philippines by Frederick Palmer with photos
  • Loaded with small advertisements of the day, notably a quarter-page ad from the Riker Motor Vehicle, Co. depicting the Standard “Riker” Phaeton which touts having made a 110 miles trip

    • 1907-05-18 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1907/05/18 — “His Wife” cover design by F.X. Leyendecker.

    Contents as follows:

  • The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments — Full-Page in Color by Maxfield Parrish — VIII. The King of the Black Isles
  • Editorials
  • Who Rules New York? — Cartoon by E.W. Kemble
  • The Coasters of West Africa by Richard Harding Davis and illustrated in color by H. Reuterdahl and from Photographs from the author
  • “His Wife” — Story by Stephen French Whitman and illustrated in color by A.I. Keller
  • Gullible’s Travels — I — by Wallace Irwin and illustrated in color by F. Strothamnn
  • “The Thunderer” — Cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt in color by “Cir”
  • The Moyer-Haywood Case — Part II — by C.P. Connolly and illustrated with photographs
  • What the World is Doing — Illustrated With Sketches by F.T. Richards

    • Notable Advertising includes: The House of Kuppenheimer*, Haynes Automobile Company*, Pope-Hartford Model L*, Peerless Motor Car Co.*, Reach Fielders Gloves*, full-page for The Prudential, and a full-page on the back cover for B.V.D. (Note * means ad is less than a full page)

    1914-10-17 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1914/10/17 — Cover illustrated by F.X. Leyendecker

  • How Fear Came to Paris by Gelett Burgess and illustrated by R.M. Brinkerhoff
  • The All-Star Team by Grantland Rice includes photos of Bill James of the Boston Braves, and Hall of Famers Grover Cleveland Alexander , Ty Cobb , and Eddie Collins
  • “The Diamond Jester” is fiction by Frank E. Evans featuring his Pick O’Hara character. Illustrated by Ernest Fuhr – I see mention of Germany Schaefer – Arlie Latham – Ty Cobb – Hughie Jennings (also an illustration which I believe is a famous Jennings pose) – Chief Bender
  • “The Rustler’s Pay” by Marion Sherrard and illustrated by W. Herbert Dunton
  • “The Beautiful Thing” by Annie Hamilton Donnell and illustrated by P.J. Monahan
  • The Czar’s Fighting Men – Russian Experiences in East Prussia by Robert Crozier Long
  • Rewards of Business Courage by Ray Stannard Baker and illustrated by Walter J. Enright
  • The Belgian Nettle in the German Foot – 2 photographs on a single page
  • A Glimpse of Europe’s SHower Bath of Iron — 6 photos on the center two pages
  • Inside front cover — Cream of Wheat ad featuring Rastus — “Giddap, Uncle!”

    • 1918-01-12 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1918/01/12 —

  • On the title page is “Bingo!” drawn by Harvey Dunn for a United States Food Administration Poster
  • The Sins of the Censor – An Open Letter to Americans by Wythe Williams
  • The Rival Pacifists by William Slavens McNutt and illustrated by Thomas Fogarty
  • Collier’s Editorials
  • Trench Tools – Engines of War Born of the Conditions on the Western Front by Lucian Cary
  • A Reporter’s Diary – He Starts Home, With a Stop-Over at London by Ring Lardner and illustrated by Wallace Morgan
  • “Excess Baggage” — Part 2 — by Samuel Hopkins Adams and illustrated by J. Scott Williams
  • The Strike Menace by Burton J. Hendrick
  • In the Spring by John A. Moroso and illustrated by Ernest Fehr
  • “The Reflection” a poem by Christopher Morley
  • Uncle Sam in the Insurance Business by Samuel Richards White

    • 1918-02-09 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1918/02/09 —

  • “The Clackers” by William Slavens McNutt and illustrated by W.E. Hill
  • “I Leon Bronstein” by William Almon Wolff and illustrated by Wallace Morgan
  • Collier’s Editorials
  • “Winter Stars” a poem by Sara Teasdale
  • Mud — 2 pages of photos of war efforts in the mud
  • In the Heart of German Intrigue — Chapter 4: Uncovering a King’s Treachery — by Demetra Vaka
  • “Forced Landing” by Edwin Balmer and illustrated by R.M. Crosby
  • “Devilment on Middling-Ear” — Another Jigadier Brindle Story — by Harris Dickson
  • “The Madness of Valentine” by Edgar Wallace and illustrated by J.C. Coll

    • 1918-06-15 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1918/06/15 — Cover illustrated by Herbert Paus

  • On the title page is a large photo “Tending the Wounded Under Fire”
  • Why Are We At Peace With Bulgaria? By Demetra Vaka
  • Our Dauntless Destroyer Boys by James B. Connolly
  • “The Right Sort of Man” by Lucian Cary and illustrated by Arthur G. Dove
  • Coats of Many Colors — a page of photos showing camouflage suits in action
  • “From Baseball to Boches” — Seventh Inning — by H.C. Witwer and illustrated by F.R. Gruger and Arthur William Brown
  • Collier’s Editorials
  • Let ‘Er Buck by William Slavens McNutt appears to be about ranchers/cowboys taming and training horses for the military
  • Tomato Catchup 5 Cents Extra by Octavus Roy Cohen
  • Saving Days Against the U-Boats by William Heyliger
  • Will Germany Collapse? by Thomas H. Dickinson
  • Small Iver Johnson ad “He didn’t forget to protect us” with illustration of woman looking at photo of her husband in uniform

    • 1918-06-22 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1918/06/22 — Cover illustrated by Edward Penfield

  • On the title page is a large war photo “Behind the Barricade”
  • Man-Power by Mark Sullivan
  • “The Adversary” by John Russell and illustrated by J.C. Coll
  • Full-page photo “No Wonder Cubism Started in France!”
  • Serbia on the Rack by E.M. Chadwick
  • “Training the Dogs of War” — photos
  • The War and the “Y” by Harris Dickson
  • Collier’s Editorials
  • “You Can’t Just Wait” by Oscar Graeve and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • Utilizing Return Trips by Joseph Brinker
  • John Russell
  • Full-page ad for Lamson Conveyors illustrated by Tony Sarg
  • Full-page ad for The New Edison on the inside back cover features head to toe photo of Frieda Hempel

    • 1918-06-29 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1918/06/29 — Cover illustrated by Edward Penfield

  • The Arm and the Wallop by William Slavens McNutt
  • The Cargo Company by James B. Connolly and illustrated by Herbert Paus
  • 2 pages containing 6 war photos
  • In Connection with the Old Murray Place by Arthur Crabb and illustrated by Clara Elsene Peck
  • Collier’s Editorials
  • Getting Them Back – How the Wounded Are Cared for in a Modern Battle – 2 pages of photos
  • The Face in the Loophole by Vingie E. Roe and illustrated by Frank Stick
  • The Army’s Skirts by Mary Alden Hopkins
  • “The Star Reapers” a poem by Harry Kemp
  • Jim Connolly

    • 1918-07-13 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1918/07/13 — Cover illustrated by Franklin Booth

  • The Soul of France by James Hopper
  • The Flying Fish — Chapter 1: Half a Dozen — by Arthur Somers Roche and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • Training Mariners and Making Men — 2 pages of photos

  • “From Baseball to Boches” — Eighth Inning — by H.C. Witwer and illustrated by F.R. Gruger and Arthur William Brown
  • Collier’s Editorials
  • “Something–!” by Donal Hamilton Hains and illustrated with lithographs by George Bellows
  • Reading for War Time by Charles W. Eliot
  • Linking Up the Lincoln Highway by William Almon Wolff
  • Arthur Roche

    • 1918-07-20 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1918/07/20 — Cover illustrated by W.E. Hill

  • Large war photo on the title page “In the Thick of It”

  • “Shore Leave” by Edna Ferber and illustrated by W.E. Hill
  • “Writing that Letter Home” – photos
  • Fighting-Fit by Samuel Hopkins Adams
  • “The Flying Fish” — Chapter 4: Miss Tarrant by Arthur Somers Roche and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • Collier’s Editorials
  • Salesmanship and Success — First Article: Approach by William Maxwell

    • 1918-08-03 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1918/08/03 — Cover illustrated by Herbert Paus

  • Large war photo on title page “America Lends a Hand”
  • The Gypsy Division Goes In by James Hopper
  • “Little Cousin Sarah” by Booth Tarkington and illustrated by Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock
  • Full-page photo “Up a Tree on the Way Down” shows a British balloon observer stuck on top of a tree
  • Salesmanship and Success — Second Article: Getting the Order by William Maxwell
  • The Flying Fish — Chapter 9: Penlow Farm — by Arthur Somers Roche and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • Collier’s Editorials
  • Journal of a Red Cross Man by David Carb

  • Leaders of Our New Armies by Arthur F. Cosby

    • 1918-08-17 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1918/08/17 — Cover illustrated by Franklin Booth

  • “The Three of Them” by Edna Ferber and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • Your Wheatless Days – America’s Record in One Year of Food Saving by William Almon Wolff
  • Uncle Sam – Employment Agent by Mark Sullivan

  • “There’s Hits in Every Bat” is baseball fiction by Jerome Beatty and illustrated by W.E. Hill
  • “The Flying Fish” — Chapter 13: Reporter Morley by Arthur Somers Roche and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • Collier’s Editorials
  • “When the Deer Come Down to Drink” a poem by Arthur Guiterman

    • 1918-08-31 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1918/08/31 — Cover illustrated by Herbert Paus

  • The Bird of Serbia by Julian Street
  • Four Tickets to Paradise by Oscar Graeve and illustrated by Clara Elsene Peck
  • “You Will Do Your Work on Water” is a page of war photos
  • “From Baseball to Boches” — Tenth Inning — by H.C. Witwer and illustrated by F.R. Gruger and Arthur William Brown
  • The Last Cruise of the U-77 by James B. Connolly
  • Collier’s Editorials
  • The Flying Fish — Chapter 17: Prison Stripes — by Arthur Somers Roche and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “Cages” a poem by Marion Patton Waldron
  • H.C. Witwer
  • Maximilian Harden — One Man WHo Dares to Tell Germany the Truth by Karl H. v. Wiegland

    • 1918-09-07 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1918/09/07 — Cover illustrated by Edward Penfield

  • Our First Victory — Part 2: Over the Top and Beyond by James Hopper with illustrations by Herbert Paus
  • Doing the Impossible by Charles M. Schwab
  • “Boston Limited” by John Russell and illlustrated by F.C. Yohn
  • Letters from the Air — No.1: The Flying School — by Lieut. J. Alexander Bayne

  • Work or Fight — What the New Draft Must Accomplish by Mark Sullivan

  • “The Loan of a Lady” by William Almon Wolff and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • “The Flying Fish” — Chapter 19: Wrightson Talks by Arthur Somers Roche and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • Business in War Time — No. 10: Getting Into Step with Your Uncle
  • “Everything Confiscated” cartoon by Gluyas Williams

    • 1918-09-28 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1918/09/28 —

  • War Prisoners — How Germany Treats Them-How America Does by Charles V. Combe
  • More Liberty Bonds, or More Income? By Benjamin Strong
  • “Putting It Over on the Old Home Town” by Lucian Cary and illustrated by Arthur G. Dove
  • Letter from the Air — No. 4: Hun Hunting by Lieut. J. Alexander Bayne
  • “A Taste of the Old Boy” by Wilbur Daniel Steele and illustrated by W.J. Glackens

  • Uncles Sam’s Fake Factory by Clarence Budington Kelland
  • Business in War Time — No. 13: The Time for Sacrifice Has Come
  • Full-page Edison-Dick Mimeograph ad features an illustration of Balzac

    • 1918-10-05 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1918/10/05 — Cover illustrated by Edward Penfield

  • The Yanks Go Through by William Slavens McNutt and illustrated by F.C. Yohn
  • How Your Bond Beats the Boche – photos

  • “The Dodger Trail” — Part 1 of 2 — by Samuel Hopkins Adams and illustrated by F.C. Yohn
  • Letters from the Air — No. 5: Dodging Archies by Lieut. J. Alexander Bayne

  • The Fourth in Alsace by Arthur Ruhl

  • “Kale in Season” by John Amid and illustrated by Arthur G. Dove
  • Salesmanship and Success — Third Article: How Do They Do It? — by William Maxwell
  • Business in War Time — No. 14: The Government’s Use of Advertising
  • Full-page Savage Arms Corporation ad on the inside back cover

    • 1918-10-12 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1918/10/12 —

  • Hoover Talks – A Message from the Man Who Believes in the American People — by William Almon Wolff about Herbert Hoover
  • Selling America — Bringing Paris, France, to Paris, Illinois by Edna Ferber and illustrated by Arthur G. Dove
  • Our First Victory — Part 3: After the Battle by James Hopper
  • “From Baseball to Boches” — Twelfth Inning — by H.C. Witwer and illustrated by F.R. Gruger and Arthur William Brown

  • “The Dodger Trail” — Part 2 — by Samuel Hopkins Adams and illustrated by F.C. Yohn
  • Business in War Time — No. 15: The New Spirit of American Business
  • Letters from the Air — No. 6: Shooting Sausages by Lieut. J. Alexander Bayne
  • Samuel Hopkins Adams (small bio)

    • 1918-10-19 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1918/10/19 — Cover illustrated by Edward Penfield

  • Don’t Forget the Navy by Richard Washburn Child
  • The “Made-in-Germany” Press Agent by James W. Gerard
  • “Lady Larkspur” — Chapter 1: The Troops — by Meredith Nicholson and illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg
  • The Stage Enlists — a page of photos of the Stage Women’s War Relief including pics of Blanche Bates, Florence Nash, Peggy O’Neil, Elsie Ferguson, Carroll McComas, and Minnie Dupree
  • Holland and the Great War by H.W. Van Loon
  • Fine and Dandy by Oscar Graeve and illustrated by R.M. Crosby
  • “The Three Musketeers” – Inspired by a sketch under the same title, drawn by Lieut. Herbert Morton Stoops – by Donal Hamilton Haines and illustrated by F.C. Yohn
  • Letters from the Air — No. 7: Shooting ‘Em Up by Lieut. J. Alexander Bayne
  • Business in War Time — No. 16: Internationalizing the American Idea
  • Meredith Nicholson

    • 1918-10-26 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1918/10/26 — Cover illustrated by Neysa McMein

  • “First, Last, and Supper” by Booth Tarkington and illustrated by Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock
  • “Lady Larkspur” — Chapter 2L The Amazing Widow — by Meredith Nicholson and illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg
  • Would France Accept a “German Peace”? by Henry Rood with an etching by Georges Scott
  • Sparks Goes to War by George F. Worts and illustrated by J.C. Coll
  • Letters from the Air — No. 8: Over the Front by Lieut. J. Alexander Bayne
  • “The Way to Their Hearts” by Edith Day Robinson
  • “The Old Gang on the Corner” a poem by William Herschell
  • Business in War Time — No. 17: What About Electricity in the Home?

    • 1918-11-16 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1918/11/16 — Cover illustrated by S.N. Abbott

  • “The Lost Battalion” by Lieuenant Arthur McKeough
  • Seven Reasons for $170,000,000 – photos
  • “A Gentleman’s Game” — Football Fan or Not, You’ll Like Snowball — by Guy W. Norton and illustrated by Hibberd V.D. Kline
  • On the German Heels by James Hopper with an illustration by Herbert Paus
  • A Tangled Web by Howard Brubaker and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright
  • “Lady Larkspur” — Chapter 4: Pursuing Knights by Meredith Nicholson and Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg
  • Business in War Time — No. 19: How to Win South America’s Trade – by Carlos E. Restrepo, ex-President of Columbia
  • Chalmers Underwear ad with large Herbert Meyer illustration
  • Small Iver Johnson ad “The Veteran Knows”