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1915-06-05 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1915/06/05 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Sarah S. Stillwell Weber.

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

  • The Military and Naval Defenses of the United States: What They Are–What They Should Be by former President William Howard Taft
  • “Bad Bill Bobo” by George Pattullo and illustrated by Harvey Dunn
  • The Views of Mr. Wu by Samuel G. Blythe is about Doctor Wu Ting Fang
  • “The Unknown Masterpiece” by Frederick Irving Anderson
  • Made in America by Emerson Hough
  • “The Chalk Game” by L.B. Yates and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • “The Busher’s Welcome Home” by Ring Lardner and illustrated by Martin Justice is one of the famed “You Know Me, Al” stories.
  • “H.R.” by Edwin Lefevre and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood is a serial entry beginning with Chapter 6
  • Do You Want South American Business? The Presidents of Peru and Chile Talk to Merchants of the United States by Roger W. Babson

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Sunkist on the inside front cover, King Motor Car Company, Crisco, Corona Portable Typewriter*, Hires*, 2-page ad for the Overland from The Willys-Overland Company in the center, Empire Tires*, Dodge Brothers Motor Car, full-page ad from Paramount features small head shots of several actors and actresses (Mary Pickford, Elsie Janis, Marguerite Clark, Charlotte Walker, Pauline Frederick, Myrtle Stedman, Blanche Sweet, John Barrymore, Laura Hope Crews, Hazel Dawn, George Fawcett, Marie Doro and a coupon for the Paramount Magazine), Eveready Flashlight, Mecca Cigarettes, Buick Motor Company, Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company, Snider’s Catsup and Pork & Beans, Gillette*, Cadillac, Camel Cigarettes from R.J. Reynolds, Chandler Motor Car Company, “Keep a Kodak Baby Book” from Eastman Kodak, Florshiem Shoes*, Cole Motor Car Company, Goodyear Tires, and a Palmolive Shaving Stick ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1915-09-18 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1915/09/18 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Charles Livingston Bull.

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

  • “Ruins” by Arnold Bennett and illustrated by Herbert Johnson
  • “A Guest in Time” by Holworthy Hall and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • “Ghost Cities of the West — She Came Back; Aurora” by Charles E. Van Loan
  • “Extricating Young Gussie” by P.G. Wodehouse and illustrated by Martin Justice
  • “High Spy in Russia” by Samuel G. Blythe and illustrated by Hy Mayer
  • “Marrying a Meal Ticket” by L.B. Yates and illustrated by Arthur William Brown is a circus story
  • “A Cornfield Emporium” by Forrest Crissey and illustrated by Charles D. Mitchell
  • “The Gray Dawn” by Stewart Edward White and illustrated by Harvey Dunn
  • “The Crucible of Peace” by Thomas H. Uzzell and illustrated by Stanley M. Arthurs

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Studebaker ad on the inside front cover and following page, Campbell’s Soups*, Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pen*, Winchester Rifles and Cartridges illustrated by Lynn Bogue Hunt*, 2-page ad for the Overland in the middle, Enger Twin Six, United States Tires*, Cadillac, Chalmers Underwear, Fisk Tires with illustration by Danman Fink, Dodge Brothers*, Community Silver with illustration by Coles Phillips, Miami Power Bicycle, Moon Motor Car Co., Kirschbaum Yungfelo Clothes with Kirschbaum Arrow Model, Chalmers Motor Co., Mary Garden Face Powder*, Goodyear, Sun-Maid Raisins, Munsingwear, and a Victrola ad featuring Alma Gluck on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1915-09-25 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1915/09/25 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Sarah S. Stilwell Weber.

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

  • “Our Maritime Bugaboo” by Peter B. Kyne
  • “You Hadn’t Ought To” by Rupert Hughes and illustrated by Will Foster
  • “Interviewing Yuan Shi Kai” by Sumuel G. Blythe
  • “The Blue-Sky Company — The Salted Show” by Will Payne and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • “The Difficult Truth About Serbia” by Eleanor Franklin Egan
  • “A Pinch Hit in Vaudeville” by Bozeman Bulger and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • “Ghost Cities of the West — Bad, B-a-d Bodie” by Charles E. Van Loan
  • “The Gray Dawn” by Stewart Edward White and illustrated by Harvey Dunn

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: The Blake by The House of Kuppenheimer on the inside front cover, Crisco, Hercules Powder*, Quaker Oats*, Hamilton Watch*, Duke’s Tobacco*, Saxon Motor Company, Sherwin-Williams*, Elgin Watches*, Velvet Joe*, Tuxedo Tobacco w/6 spokesmen including actor Hughie Mack, Beech-Nut Peanut Butter*, Jergens Soap*, Dodge Brothers Winter Car*, Fatima Cigarettes*, Kissel Motor Car Co.*, Listerine*, Stetson Hats, Prince Albert, Thomas B. Jeffery Company, Remington Rifles*, Briscoe Motor Co.*King Air Rifles*, Willys Knight ad on inside back cover, and a Gold Medal Flour ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1915-11-13 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1915/11/13 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Tony Sarg.

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

  • “The Thumb Twiddlers” by Rupert Hughes and illustrated by Will Foster
  • “The Last Charge of Forrest’s Calvalry” by Irvin S. Cobb and illustrated by Harvey Dunn
  • “The Booby Prizer” by Leavitt Ashley Knight and illustrated by Martin Justice
  • “Turning Wages into Salary — The Retail Salesman and His Record” by Edward Mott Woolley and illustrated by Charles D. Mitchell
  • “The Blue-Sky Company — In Fine Feathers” by Will Payne and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • “Swan Songs of the Show Shops” by L.B. Yates
  • “A Disappearing Bridegroom” by George Weston and illustrated by T.D. Skidmore
  • “Rich Man, Poor Man: by Maximilian Foster and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “Selling American Stocks Abroad and Buying Them Back Again” by Albert W. Atwood
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Palmolive Soap on the inside front cover, Holeproof Hosiery, Campbell’s Soup*, Pathe Pathephone*, Kirschbaum Clothes*, Daisy Pump Gun*, Quaker Oats*, Iver Johnson Revolver*, 2-page ad for Columbia Grafonola in the middle, Goodyear Wing Foot Air Heels, KisselKar*, Jones Sausage*, Franklin Automobile Co., Dodge Brothers Winter Car*, Saxon Six, Goodyear Truck Tires, Bob-o-links, Cadillac, Mary garden Face Poweder*, Camel Cigarettes (early), Towle’s Log Cabin Syrup, Oldsmobile, Sun-Maid Raisins, Munsingwear on the inside back cover, and a Bull Durham Tobacco ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1915-11-27 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1915/11/27 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Z.P. Nikolaki.

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

  • “An Order for Grape Stakes — Cappy Ricks Accepts It-and Completes His Education” by Peter B. Kyne and illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer
  • “Blacker Than Sin” by Irvin S. Cobb and illustrated by M. Leone Bracker
  • “Going Up!” by Edwin Lefevre
  • “The Other Side of the House” by Sinclair Lewis and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • “The Bolivar” by Bozeman Bulger and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • “Naughty Henree” by George Pattullo and illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner
  • “Green Timber” by Maude Radford Warren and illustrated by Fanny Munsell
  • “Rich Man, Poor Man” by Maximilian Foster and illustrated by F.R. Gruger (part of a serial picking up from Chapter XVIII)
  • “The Going Guest–How Turkey Speeds Her” by Eleanor Franklin Egan
  • “The Blue-Sky Company–A Sentimental Adventure” by Will Payne and illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Erector Set, Campbell’s Soups, 2-page Maxwell Motor Company ad, Quaker Oats*, Goodyear, Dodge Brothers Roadster*, Western Electric Company, Tuxedo Tobacco ad featuring screen stars including Charles Chaplin, Maurice Costello, William S Hart, Jesse L. Lasky, Francis X Bushman, 44 in all!, Colt Automatic*, and an Eastman Kodak ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1915-12-11 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1915/12/11 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by J.C. Leyendecker.

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

  • “The Family Friend” by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • “Christmas Presents–Those We Give and Those We Get” by Irvin S. Cobb with sketches by Tony Sarg
  • “The Machineonian Cry” by Samuel G. Blythe with cartoon by Herbert Johnson
  • “Lo, the Poor Piute” by Charles E. Van Loan and illustrated by John R. Neill
  • “The Slacker” by W.B. Trites and illustrated by Harvey Dunn
  • “Uneasy Money” by P.G. Wodehouse and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood (part of a serial picking up at Chapter V)
  • “The Blue-Sky Company – On the Pirate Ship” by Will Payne and illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner
  • “In Winter Quarters – Stories of Sawdust and Sentiment” by L.B. Yates
  • “Is Germany Hungry?”
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • “Out-of-Doors – You Walk; How About It!”

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Prince Albert on the inside front cover, Ivory Soap, Campbell’s Tomato Soap, the Pathe Pathephone, 2-page ad for Studebaker in the middle, Goodyear, 2-pages for the Prudential, Dodge Brothers Winter Car*, and a Victrola ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1916-06-10 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1916/06/10 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Harry Fisk.

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

  • “The Bells of Saint Clemens” by Eugene Manlove Rhodes and illustrated by Harvey Dunn
  • Are Railroad Receiverships Necessary? by Roger W. Babson
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • “The Great Legend” by Melville Davisson Post and illustrated by H. J. Soilen
  • “The Badge” by John Russell and illustrated by F.E. Schoonover
  • “The Cellini Saltcellar” by Roland Pertwee and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • Raising Our War Babies: What Will Happen When the World Turns Back to Peace? by James H. Collins and illustrated by M.L. Blumenthal
  • “Efficiency Edgar and the Home Circle” by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by May Wilson Preston
  • “The Thrush in the Hedge” by Joseph Hegesheimer and illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner
  • “Loot” by Arthur Somes Roche and illustrated by M. Leone Bracker
  • We, the People, or We, the Judges? by R.M. Wanamaker, Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio
  • “Michaela” a poem by Mary Lanier Magruder

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Sun-Maid Raisons on the inside front cover, Ingersoll Watches, Studebaker, Hudson Super-Six, Warner-Lenz, KisselKar, Lancaster Wiregrip Tires, Campbell’s Soups*, Packard Twin-Six, Ajax Tire Mileage Contest from Ajax Rubber Company, Cole Motor Company, 2-page Columbia Records ad in center of issue (detached from binding but laid-in), 2-page ad for Goodyear, Oldsmobile Light Eight*, 2-page ad for Butterick, United States Tire Company, Dodge Brothers Roadster*, Fisk Tires, Mitchell Six from Mitchell-Lewis Motor Co., Delco Electric Cranking Lighting Ignition, BVD with illustration by David Robinson, Florsheim Shoes, “Asbestos: The Fire and Time definat Mineral of Many Marvels” from Johns-Manville, Quaker Oats*, Abbott-Detroit from Consolidated Car Company, Miller Tires, Maxwell Motor Cars, Champion Spark Plugs*, Hupmobile, Haynes Automobile Company, and an Old Dutch Cleanser ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1916-09-16 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1916/09/16 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Cover design by Norman Rockwell.

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

  • “Piccadilly Jim” by P.G. Wodehouse and illustrated by May Wilson Preston – I believe this is Part I of a serialized work
  • “Lay Off, Macduff” by H.C. Witwer and illustrated by M.L. Blumenthal
  • “An Adventure in Backtothelandia” — Illustrated by Charles D. Mitchell
  • “Capitalizing Vanity” by Fred C. Kelly
  • “Snow-Blind” by Norman Duncan and illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer
  • “Our Most Human Industry: When They Make Mines by Nickels and Dimes” by James H. Collins
  • “The Reformation of Major Miles” by L.B. Yates and illustrated by Martin Justice
  • “Ferdinand Finney, Buckeye” by Rob Wagner with sketches by Tony Sarg
  • “A Circuit Rider’s Widow” by Corra Harris and illustrated by Walter H. Everett
  • “The Leopard Woman” by Stewart Edward White and illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner
  • “The Emerald Snake” by Edith Orr and illustrated by Will Foster
  • “Movie Star Stories” by Mack Sennett with paragraphs titled for the star’s Sennett discusses: Popular Raymond Hitchcock, Willie Collier’s Dismay, The Discovery of Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand’s Bear Cub — 2page article with 3/4 columns filled with text on both pages.

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows:Studebaker on the inside front cover, Holeproof Hosiery, Campbell’s Soups, Sun-Maid Raisons, Pyrene, Mallory Hats, Red Cross Shoe, “The 1917 Smart Cards” from Mitchell, Perfection Smokeless Oil Heaters, 2-page ad for the Maxwell Motor-Company, United States Tire Company, Cadillac, Stetson Hats, Edison Mazda Lamps, Edison “talking machines”, Rinex Soles from U.S. Rubber Co., AutoStrop Safety Razor Co., Armco Iron, Self Starting Remington Typewriter, the Marmon 34 from the Nordyke & Marmon Company, Stephenson Underwear, Tuxedo Tobacco featuring 6 future Baseball Hall of Famers testimonials with a 2-inch diameter photo of each: Hughie Jennings, Christy Mathewson, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Wilbert Robinson, Ty Cobb, and Joe Tinker, Peerless 8, Kahn Tailoring Company, Munsing Wear on the inside back cover and Victrola on the back cover.

    1916-09-30 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1916/09/30 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by J.C. Leyendecker.

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

  • “Under New Management: Whereby B. Podolnik Acquires a Road House” by Montague Glass and illustrated by J.J. Gould
  • “Hence These Tears” by Frank Condon and illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover
  • Our Most Human Industry: How the Gold Dredge Navigates by James H. Collins
  • The Vicissitudes of Victor, or Shoot the Piece by Rob Wagner
  • “Piccadilly Jim” by P.G. Wodehouse and illustrated by May Wilson Preston (billed by his full name of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse)
  • “ACircuit Rider’s Widow” by Corra Harris and illustrated by Walter H. Everett
  • A Business Man by Will Payne and illustrated by Charles D. Mitchell
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Ivory Soap, Campbell’s Soup, Peet’s Crystal White Laundry Soap, Hudson Super-Six Touring Sedan, United States Tire Company, Reznor Gas Heaters, 2-page Overland ad from Willys-Overland Company in the center, 2-page ad for Fisk Tires, Hotel La Salle*, Stetson Hats, 2-page ad for the Cole 8 from Cole Motor Car Company, Maxwell Motor Company, Pebeco Tooth Paste, Goodyear Motorcycle Tires*, Perfection Smokeless Oil Heaters from The Cleveland Foundry Company, 2-pages for John H. Woodbury’s Facial Soap, the Mitchell Sedan and Mitchell Limosuine, Goodyear Tire Saver Kit*, National Motor Vehicle Co.*, Goodyearite, General Motors Truck Company, Dodge Brothers Motor Cars*, Barney Oldfield for Warner Lenz, Prince Albert, Champion Spark Plugs*, Listerine, and a 1847 Rogers Bros. ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1921-08-13 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1921/08/13 — Cover design by Norman Rockwell

    Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
    SHORT STORIES:

  • “The Little Matter of Living” by Samuel Merwin and illustrated by James H. Crank
  • “Fifty-Two Weeks for Florette” by Elizabeth Alexander and illustrated by Nancy Fay
  • “The Round Turn” by Will Irwin and illustrated by H.J. Mowat
  • “The Making of a Patriot” by Maxwell Struthers Burt and illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner

    • ARTICLES:

  • Italy from a Dirigible Window by Kenneth L. Roberts
  • Hittin’ the Grit by L.B. Yates and illustrated by Tony Sarg
  • Paragraphs from the Provinces by E.W. Howe and illustrated by M.L. Blumenthal
  • Germany’s New Peace Offensive by Robert Crozier Long

    • SERIALS:

  • “Manslaughter” — Part 2 by Alice Duer Miller and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “The Manikin Makers” — Part 4 by Samuel G. Blythe and illustrated by Arthur William Brown

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Editorials
  • Full-page color ad for Kuppenheimer Good Clothes on inside front cover pictures boy with collie

    • 1921-10-01 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1921/10/01 — Cover design by Norman Rockwell

    Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
    SHORT STORIES:

  • “The Life of Jeremiah Bartlett” by Wallace Irwin and illustrated by Ernest Fuhr
  • “Double Trouble, Delaware” by William Hamilton Osborne and illustrated by Hubert Mathieu
  • “Some Like Them Cold” by Ring W. Lardner

    • ARTICLES:

  • Eating Through Europe by Kenneth L. Roberts and illustrated by M.L. Blumenthal
  • Preserving Your Philippines by Eleanor Franklin Egan
  • The Young Man in Journalism — Reporters and Reporting by Chester S. Lord
  • Raising Bumper Crops With Poison Gas by Robert Crozier Long

    • SERIALS:

  • “According to His Lights” — Part 1 of 3 — by Kennett Harris and illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner
  • “Olga, or Russian Gold” — Part 2 — by George Kibbe Turner and illustrated by George E. Wolfe

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Editorials
  • 2-page ad — Goldwyn Presents: “Dangerous Curve Ahead” with images of stars Richard Dix and Helene Chadwick, text and illustrations, black & white

    • 1931-12-26 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1931/12/26 — Cover design by J.C. Leyendecker

    Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
    SHORT STORIES:

  • “Grandfather Pound” by Thomas Beer and illustrated by Henrietta McCaig Starrett
  • “Getting Together” by Montague Glass and illustrated by J.J. Gould
  • “The Way to Go Home” by James Gould Cozzens and illustrated by C.D. Williams
  • “Gladwin is Willing to Accept a Position” by William Hazlett Upson and illustrated by Tony Sarg

    • ARTICLES:

  • Ambassador for a Day–An Intimate Letter by President Roosevelt
  • The Limits of Government by Albert W. Atwood with decorations by Wyncie King
  • Forced Idleness by Jack P. Morissey with Wesley Stout
  • Sinclair Lewis vs. His Education by Christian Gauss
  • A New New York by Samuel G. Blythe with Cartoon by Herbert Johnson

    • SERIALS:

  • “Flame” — Part 2 of 6 — by C.E. Scoggins and illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner
  • “The Mud Lark” — Conclusion — by Arthur Stringer and illustrated by H.J. Mowat-

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Editorials
  • Post Scripts
  • Upward Progress of a Chauchoin by Frank Condon is about Claudette Colbert with a photo
  • Out-of-Doors
  • The Poets’ Corner

    • 1932-09-17 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1932/09/17 — Cover design by Guy Hoff

    Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
    SHORT STORIES:

  • “The Point of a Pin” by G.K. Chesterton and illustrated by H.J. Mowat
  • “More Trouble With the Expense Account” by William Hazlett Upson and illustrated by Tony Sarg
  • “A World of Promise” by Dwight Mitchell Wiley and illustrated by Lu Kimmel
  • “Soirees de Palm Beach” by Joseph Hergesheimer and illustrated by John La Gatta

    • ARTICLES:

  • Veterans and Taxpayers by Former Governor Alfred E. Smith
  • I Changed My Occupation After Forty-Five by Jesse Rainsford Sprague
  • The Militant Disarmed by Dorothy Thompson
  • Homemade Gold by Arthur Hawthorne Carhart
  • Antiquedotes by M.L. Blumenthal

    • SERIAL:

  • “The Great Crooner” — Part 4 of 6 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • “Folded Hills” — Conclusion — by Stewart Edward White and illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Editorials
  • Post Scripts

    • 1932-10-29 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1932/10/29 — Great cover design featuring leggy flapper with a jack-o-lantern is credited to J. Walter Wilkinson

    Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
    SHORT STORIES:

  • The Pompon From the Hat of a Sailor by Bruce Gould and illustrated by William C. Hoople
  • “Not in the Specifications” by Albert Richard Wetjan and illustrated by Gordon Grant
  • “The Amateur Governess” by Anne Green and illustrated by Henrietta McCaig Starrett

    • ARTICLES:

  • The Democratic Case by Governor Albert C. Ritchie
  • Deflated Antiques by Edwin Lefevre
  • Do Football Players Think? by John Baker, USCVotes That Count

    • SERIALS:

  • “Let the Hurricane Roar” — Conclusion — by Rose Wilder Lane and illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner
  • “Presenting Lily Mars” — Part 4 of 8 — by Booth Tarkington and illustrated by Henry Raleigh

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Editorials
  • Post Scripts

    • 1909-03-20 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1909/03/20 — Cover design by Philip Boileau

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

  • “Stock Manipulation” by Edwin Lefevre with decoration by Paul Bransom
  • “How They Do Business In Turkey” by E. Alexander Powell, FRGS and illustrated by Emlen McConnell
  • “In the Shadow — Jem Strikes the Right Camp” by George Pattullo and illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover
  • “Who’s the Best Boss? – Would You Rather Work for a Man or a Machine?” by Henry M Hyde
  • “The White Mice” by Richard Harding Davis and illustrated by George Gibbs
  • “The Drama of the Slums — And Other New Plays of the Season” by John Corbin wtih photos of Ethel Barrymore, Maude Adams, Blanche Bates, Mabel Barrison, Thomas A. Wise, Mrs. Fiske, and Wilton Lackaye
  • “The Confessions of a Con Man” As Told to Will Irwin and illustrated by W.J. Glackens
  • “Who’s Who and Why”
  • “Thrift — Keeping Tab on the Earnings”

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Franklin Automobiles on the inside front cover, Kleanwell, Hart Schaffner & Marx, Baker Electric Vehicles*, Buster Brown’s Hosiery Mills*, The Schwabs of St. Louis*, the Rapid Pullman Sight-Seeing Cars on the inside back cover, and a Victor-Victrola ad on the back cover featuring Caruso, Farrar and several others and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1909-04-17 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1909/04/17 — Cover design by Harrison Fisher

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

  • “The Hookers-Up — Being a Consideration of Certain Phases of Life at Palm Beach” by Samuel G. Blythe and illustrated by G.C. Widney
  • “The First Scoop — The Bulldog Reporter Puts New Life Into the Courier: by George Randolph Carter and illustrated by Harold M. Brett
  • “Henrietta’s Hair — The Evidence in a Celebrated Case” by William Hamilton Osborne and illustrated by W. Glackens
  • “The Economy of Water-Power” by Donald Cameron Shafer
  • “Putting on the Screws” by Gouverneur Morris and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • “The New Canada” by James H. Collins and illustrated by Ethel P. Brown
  • “The White Mice” by Richard Harding Davis and illustrated by George Gibbs
  • “Who’s Who and Why”

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Berset Shaving Cream Soap & The Rubberset Company on the inside front cover, Hart Schaffner & Marx, Ivory Soap, 2-page ad for Glidden’s Varnish in the middle, Chalmers-Detroit Motor Company*, The Standard Paint Company, Good Year*, Acme Quality, Reach Baseball*, David Adler & Sons Clothing Co*, Savage Arms Co., Everwear Hosiery on the inside front cover, and a Victor-Victrola ad on the back cover featuring Caruso and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1909-04-24 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1909/04/24 — Cover design by Grace Gebbie Wiederseim

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

  • “Receivership Abuses — New York’s Safeguard for the People’s Money” by Isaac F. Marcosson
  • “Alone in Africa — Selections From the Forthcoming Letters of a Faunal Naturalist” arranged by Samuel G. Blythe
  • “Slush’s Ma — The New Cure for Lazy Boys” by Owen Johnson and illustrated by May Wilson Preston
  • “Lovely Woman — Will She Ever Vote?” by Emerson Hough and illustrated by Charlotte Weber Ditzler
  • “The Net and the Quarry — Jack Marvin Refuses to be Saved” by George Frederic Stratton and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • “The Herods of Our Day — Scarlet Fever, Measles and Whooping-Cough” by Woods Hutchinson, AM, MD with decoration by H.B. Lachman
  • “Working on the Danger Line — The Coalheaver, the Lineman and the Stoker” by Fred R. Bechdolt with decorations by James M. Preston
  • “An Executive Mind — Jeff Tampers With the United States Mail” by Eugene Manlove Rhodes and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “Hazards of the Diamond Trade” by E.L. Bacon and T. Edgar Willson with illustrations by Edmund Frederick
  • “Canada and Reciprocity” by D.D. Mann with photo of Mann
  • “The White Mice” part of a serial by Richard Harding Davis and illustrated by George Gibbs
  • “Who’s Who and Why”

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: H.H. Franklin Manufacturing Company, Holeproof Hosiery, 2-pages for Dodge, Brush Runabout Co.*, E.Howard Watch Company ad with a Cowboy*, The Royal Tailors, The Prudential*, Sherwin-Williams Co., Firestone*, Baker Motor Vehicle Company*, The Edison Phonograph*, Reach Catcher’s Mitts*, Grape-Nuts*, Columbia Double-Disc Records*, and a Fairbanks Soaps ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1909-07-10 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1909/07/10 — Cover design by Stanley M. Arthurs

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

  • “Bulls-Eye” by Henry Milner Rideout and illustrated by Orson Lowell
  • “Trust Methods for Retailers — Big Ideas that Will Help Small Business Men: by Isaac F. Marcosson with illustrations by J.J. Gould
  • “Loup, the Dog Smuggler” by Henry C. Rowland and illustrated by H.T. Dunn
  • “A Minister’s Mail — Telling the Pastor What You Think of Him” by Charles F. Aked, DD and illustrated by Emlen McConnell
  • “Nothing Succeeds Like Failure” by Montague Glass and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • “Plows and Poverty — How Treetops Can Be Made to Help the Farmer” by J. Russell Smith
  • “Who’s Who and Why”
  • “The Senators Secretary”

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Kingsford’s Corn Starch*, Remington Typewriter*, The Elmore Manufacturing Company, Ivory Soap, Remington Arms Co.*, “Wash Your Clothes by Electricity” The Thor Electric*, Quaker Oats*, Lifebuoy*, Arrow Collars*, and an Eastman Kodak ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1909-07-17 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1909/07/17 — Cover design by Harrison Fisher

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

  • “The Danger Mark” by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by A.B. Wenzell
  • “The Policy of the House — The Steady Job the Best for All Concerned” by James H. Collins and illustrated by F.L. Fithian
  • “The Despoiler” by Gouverneur Morris and illustrated by Orson Lowell
  • “The Real Yellow Peril” by Woods Hutchinson, AM, MD and illustrated by Harrison Cady
  • “Bulls-Eye” part of a serial by Henry Milner Rideout and illustrated by Orson Lowell
  • “Who’s Who and Why”
  • “The Senator’s Secretary”
  • “Your Savings — Bonds Secured by Natural Resources”

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Franklin Automobiles, Keen Kutter, 2-pages for The American Vacuum Cleaner Co., a large section of small ads for schools and colleges, Gillette*, and a Gold Medal Flour ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1909-07-24 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1909/07/24 — Cover design by Harrison Fisher

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

  • “The Mouth of the Gift Horse” by Rupert Hughes and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “A Brand From the Burning” by Myra Kelly and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “The Gentlemen From Missouri — What the Bank Examiner Does and Does Not Do” by Harry Snowden Stabler and illustrated by G.P. Hoskins
  • “Beatrice in Arcady” by Richard Walton Tully and illustrated by Gustavus C. Widney
  • “The Danger Mark” is part of a serial by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by A.B. Wenzell
  • “Who’s Why and Why”
  • “The Senator’s Secretary”
  • “Thrift – Down, but Not Out
  • “Out-of-Doors – Fishing for Trout – II”

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: The Prudential on the inside front cover, Holeproof Hose, Dodge Manufacturing Company, 2-page ad for Haynes Automobile Company in the center, Quaker Oats Company*, National Phonograph Company*, the 3A Brownie from Eastman Kodak*, Colt Revolvers*, Cadillac Motor Car Company*, Post Toasties*, Palmolive*, Hudson Motor Car Company, The Irwin Auger Bit Company on the inside back cover, and a Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1909-08-07 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1909/08/07 — Cover design by Harrison Fisher

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

  • “The Humming Bird — Young Brian de Boru Finnegan Chronicles Baseball” by Owen Johnson and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “The Placid Game of Cricket — British Brawn and Dignity at the Wickets” by George Fitch and illustrated by Peter Newell
  • “The Gentlemen From Missouri — What the Bank Examiner Does and Does Not Do” by Harry Snowden Stabler and illustrated by H.M. Bunker
  • “The Danger Mark” part of a serial by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by A.B. Wenzell
  • “One More Martyr” by Gouverneur Morris and illustrated by P.V.E. Ivory
  • “Who’s Who and Why”
  • “The American Bluejacket — His Day’s Work on a Man-of-War” by Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum
  • “Dollars in Eggs — Making a Living from a Small Chicken Farm” by R.P. Ellis
  • “Oddities and Novelties”

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Gold Medal Flour on the inside front cover, Ivory Soap, 2-pages for the Winton Motor Carraige Co. in the center, Colgate*, Waterman’s Ideal Pens*, Cadillac Motor Car Company, Mennen’s Toilet Powder*, Haynes Automobile Co.*, Knotair Hosiery Company*, Kingsford’s Corn Starch*, Gillette*, and an Oldsmobile ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1909-09-11 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1909/09/11 — Cover design by Walter H. Everett

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

  • “How a Big Bill is Passed” by Samuel G. Blythe
  • “Canavan, the Man Who Had His Way” by Rupert Hughes and illustrated by Harold Matthews Brett
  • “Science and Sense in Farming” by David Buffum
  • “The Gift House: Potash & Perlmutter Nearly Eat a Contract” by Montague Glass and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • “Autobiography of a Show Girl”
  • “Selling Without Samples: The Work of the Traffic Man” by James H. Collins and illustrated by C.D. Mitchell
  • “The Gent from Josephine: Uncle Potter Attends a Political Convention” by Harris Dickson and illustrated by Gustavus C. Widney
  • “Good Times” a poem by J.W. Foley
  • “The Danger Mark” by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by A.B. Wenzell
  • “Who’s Who and Why”

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: The House of Kuppenheimer on the inside front cover, Keen Kutter, 2-pages in the center for Onoto Fountain Pens, Campbell’s Soups*, The Bradley Knitting Co.*, Detroit Looscarf Collar Company, Plexo Suspenders from Knothe Brothers, Vortex Vacuum, “61” Floor Varnish from Pratt & Lambert Varnishes, Mallory Cravenette Hats, Chalmers-Detroit Motor Co., Cook’s Lineoleum*, Acme Quality Paints Enamels Stains and Varnishes, Liquid Veneer*, Chiclets*, Sorority Chocolates from Taylor Bros. Company*, Quaker Oats*, Rat Bis-Kit*, King Quality from Arnold Shoe Company*, Everwear Hosiery on the inside back cover, and a Shredded Wheat ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1909-10-02 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1909/10/02 — Cover design by Oliver Kemp

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

  • “The Losing Game” by Will Payne and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “The Coming Railroad Ruler” by Isaac F. Marcosson
  • “Jimmy Rourke — Being a Brief Chapter of Real Politics” by George Randolph Chester and illustrated by Stanley M. Arthurs
  • “The Trials of Tony — He Falls on His Feet” by Storer Clouston and illustrated by Gustavus C. Widney
  • “Selling Without Samples — The Real-Estate Man” by James H. Collins and illustrated by Emlen McConnell
  • “Ole Squint-Eye” by Harris Dickson and illustrated by Gustavus C. Widney
  • “The Confessions of a Reformed Street-Railway President” with decorations by Mayo Bunker
  • “Who Should Go On the Stage and Who Should Not” by Franklin H. Sargent
  • “The Nth Power — A Little Dinner With Doctor Migraine” by Arthur Train and illustrated by Alonzo Kimball
  • “The Danger Mark” part of a serial by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by A.B. Wenzell
  • “Wealthy Paupers and the Penniless Rich” by Marie van Vorst
  • “Who’s Who and Why”
  • “Your Savings — A Time to Buy Bonds”
  • “Out-of-Doors — The Grouse Season”

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Winton Motor Carriage Co. on the inside front cover, The House of Kuppenheimer, Haart Schaffner & Marx, 2-pages for Karpen Furniture, AutoStrop Safety Razor Company, Mitchell Motor Car Co., Bat Masterson for The New Savage Automatic with a photo of Masterson holding a pistol*, Peerless Motor Car Co.*, The Elmore Manufacturing Company, Colt Firearms*, Packard*, the Speedwell Motor Car Co. on the inside back cover, and a Gold Medal Flour ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1909-10-23 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1909/10/23 — Cover design by Fousey

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

  • “Women of the Old World — A Few Comparisons Not Necessarily Odious” by Emerson Hough
  • “An Up-to-Date Feller — Potash & Perlmutter Entertain a Lady Buyer” by Montague Glass and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • “Price of Suffrage for American Women” by Mrs. L.H. Harris and illustrated by F. Vaux Wilson
  • “The Final Score” by Richard Washburn Child and illustrated by F. Vaux Wilson
  • “The Losing Game” a serial by Will Payne and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “Water as Wealth — Battles for Brooks and Fights for Mountain Springs” by Walter V. Woehlke
  • “The Trials of Tony — His Last Chance” by Storer Clouston and illustrated by Gustavus C. Widney
  • “The Highwaymen — A Three-Cornered Fight for Peace, for Power, for War–and a Girl” by Edwin Balmer and William MacHarg and illustrated by Edmund Frederick
  • “Who’s Who and Why”
  • “Tenderfoot Talk — A Reply to Mr. Hughes” by Charles H. Ranlett
  • “Canned Laughter” by John R. Hale
  • “Thrift — When a Woman Will, She Will”
  • “Magazine Men — And One Woman Who Live by Their Pens and Typewriters” is a half-page featuring 6 photos of: David Graham Phillips, Booth Tarkington, Edwin Lefevre, Montague Glass, Owen Johnson, and Myra Kelly

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Swift & Pride Washing Powder on the inside front cover, Hartford Tires, Hart Schaffner & Marx, 2-pages for Elgin Watches, Western Electric, Grape-Nuts*, Arrow Collars*, The New Savage Automatic*, Auto Strop Safety Razor*, Quaker Oats, The Stearns – The Ultimate Car on the inside back cover, and a Colgate’s ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1911-05-20 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1911/05/20 — Cover design by Sarah S. Stilwell Weber

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

  • “The Glory of Clementina” by William J. Locke and illustrated by Arthur I. Keller
  • Spring Fashion Notes — A Record of Adventures in Search of the Style Motif” by Samuel G. Blythe and illustrated by Edmund Frederick
  • “The Flying Stars” by G.K. Chesterton and illustrated Will F. Foster
  • “The Border Land of the Law” by Melville Davisson Post and illustrated by Hanson Booth
  • “Comrades All — Unknown” by Calvin Johnston and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “The Boston Museum and Daly’s Theater” by Mary Shaw and illustrated by H.C. Wall
  • “A Link in the Chain” by R.W. Hofflund and illustrated by Gayle P. Hoskins
  • “The Girl in the Santee” by Gouverneur Morris and illustrated by Stanley M. Arthurs
  • “Why London is the Center — John Bull’s Love for Statistics” by James H. Collins with decoration by John L. Neill
  • “Gloomy Fanny” by Morley Roberts and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • “Who’s Who–And Why”
  • A Woman Pioneer — In the Irrigated Country” by Maude Radford Warren and illustrated by P.V.E. Ivory

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: White Motor Trucks, Campbell’s Tomato Soup*, Colt’s Patent Fire Arms, Victor Records with several opera scenes, Franklin Automobile*, 2-page ad for Ford Model T, Willys-Overland Company, RM Owen & Company, Iver Johnson Revolver*, Warren Motor Car Co*, Metzger Motor Car Co.*, the Quaker Oats Company, Hupp Motor Car Company, Beech-Nut Peanut Butter*, Oldsmobile on the inside back cover, and an Eastman Kodak ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))