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1904-12-10 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1904/12/10 — Cover design by Karl Anderson.

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

  • The Reorganization of the Reorganized Democracy by William Jennings Bryan
  • Tammany: Without and Within by Alfred Henry Lewis with illustration by J.J. Gould

  • Railway Take-Offs: How Purchasing Agents Shake the Tree and Pocket the Plums by Henry M. Hyde
  • No Cinderella: The Adventure of the Satin Slipper by Harold MacGrath and illustrated by Lester Ralph
  • Snobs’ Paradise: Washington’s Political Peerage and its Members by Spencer Harley
  • Rose of the World by Agnes and Egerton Castle with three illustrations by Harrison Fisher
  • A Travesty of Justice: The Story of Fifteen Lost Years by Florence Elizabeth Maybrick
  • The Guide by A.E.W. Mason, author of The Four Feathers
  • The Reading Table – poem by Wallace Irwin
  • The Ballad of Elusive Ladies – poem by Hayden Carruth

    • 1904-12-31 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1904/12/31 — Cover design by Sarah S. Stillwell

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

  • Use and Abuse of Inside Information: The Loaded Dice and the Men Who Use Them in the Wall Street Game by Edwin Lefevre and illustrated by F.V. Wilson
  • The Lights of Long Acre: Where Celebrities Coruscate from Twelve Until Two by Alfred Henry Lewis and illustrated by J.J. Gould
  • In the General Manager’s Car by J.E. Calkins and illustrated by F.B. Masters
  • Jones – The Chronicle of a Courtship by Pursuit by Lloyd Osbourne and illustrated by Karl Anderson
  • Old-Time Hospitality: Some Pictures of Our Forefathers as Mighty Trenchermen by Rebecca Harding Davis and illustrated by Walter H. Everett
  • Rose of the World by Agnes and Egerton Castle and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood, part of a serialized story picking up at chapter XXII
  • The Emperor’s Messenger: What the Mikado’s Representative Saw With Kuroki in Manchuria by Colonel Miyamoto Shomei, edited and translated by Adachi Kinnosuke, with illustrations by James Preston
  • The City of Comfort and Beauty: What Paris Has to Teach Us in Farsightedness, Thrift and the Cash Value of “Visionary Ideals” by David Graham Phillips
  • The President’s Health
  • Clean Streets and Clean Government by David Buffum
  • Literary Folk – Their Ways and Their Work

    • 1905-01-07 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/01/07 — Cover design by Harrison Fisher

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

  • Art at Heart’s Desire: The Story of a Phonograph, a Freighter, and an Operatic Star by Emerson Hough and illustrated by F.B. Masters
  • Wealth on the Cob: What Indian Corn Means in Money and Muscle to the American People by Clarence H. Matson

  • An Uncle Remus Rhyme – A Fashion of the Swamp by Joel Chandler Harris (half page)
  • Land Sharks: The Gentle Art of Grafting in the Realty Business by Henry M. Hyde and illustrated by James Preston
  • High-School “Frats” and Sororites: The Illiberal Education of the Young American Snob by E.G. Cooley, Superintendent of Chicago Schools
  • Somebody Did – Poem by J.W. Foley
  • The Speculations of John Steele: A Sweet Problem by Robert Barr and illustrated by F.R. Gruger (Part 3 of 6)
  • Rose of the World by Agnes and Egerton Castle and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood, serialized piece picks up from Chapter XXV
  • International Arbitration by Senator Shelby M. Cullon
  • Literary Folk – Their Ways and Their Work
  • Fox-Ranching in Alaska: The Trials and Rewards of a Little-Known Industry by Frederick W. Cobb
  • The Reading Table – Includes poems by Frank L. Stanton, James S. Metcalfe, and Carolyn Wells

    • 1905-01-14 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/01/14 — Cover design by J.L.S. Williams

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

  • A Yellow Journalist by Miriam Michelson
  • On the Grand Jury by Opie Read and illustrated by Hy S. Watson
  • The Works of Plupy Shute by Henry A. Shute
  • Rose of the World by Agnes and Egerton Castle and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • A Players’s Famine – The Real Reason Why So Few Good Plays Are Seen — by James L Ford with illustrations by F.V. Wilson
  • Art at the Heart’s Desire — The Stoy of a Phonography, a Freighter and an Operatic Star by Emerson Hough and illustrated by F.B. Masters
  • Adulterated Foods and Drinks — How the Government’s “Poison Squad” Has Demonstrated the Curse of the Consumer — by H.W. Wiley, M.D.
  • How to Travel — A Master-Wanderer’s Primer in the Art — by Burton Holmes
  • Buying Business Supplies by M. Martin Kallman
  • The Reading Table — Poems by Carolyn Wells, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frank L. Stanton
  • Literary Folk – Their Ways and Their Work

    • 1905-01-21 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/01/21 — Cover design by Karl Anderson.

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

  • En Passant by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by Lester Ralph

  • The Other Side of Bribery by Will Payne
  • Seeking Investment – How the Stenographer Discovered the Difference Between Precept and Practice – by George Carling and illustrated by Hy S. Watson
  • Mining Human Credulity – The Simple Faith of Financiers, and How They Are Fleeced by Ancient Games by James L. Forbes
  • A Theatrical Success — A Poem by S.E. Kiser
  • Rose of the World by Agnes and Egerton Castle and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood, serialized story picks up at Chapter 29

  • The Society Editor – And How the Rough-Shod Climbers Endeavor to Use Her as a Stepping-Stone by Edith A. Brown
  • The Prima Donna Husband by William Armstrong
  • The Elevator – And How It Served as Cupid’s Coupe – by Gelett Burgess
  • Churchyard Literature – Epitaphs Quaint and Queer by William Mathews
  • The American Jokesmith by Bert Leston Taylor
  • Literary Folk – Their Ways and Their Work

    • 1905-03-11 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/03/11 — Cover design by Anne Estelle Rice.

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

  • War Is Hell: Martial Glory as It Looks Without the Limelight by Richard Barry with illustration by James Preston
  • Progress and the Performing Bear: The Parable of Lazenby, Who Could Whip Any Man Except His Wife by Joel Chandler Harris and illustrated by E.W. Kemble
  • The Law or the Sandbag?: Some of the Things that Happen When Justice Looks the Other Way by Atherton Brownell

  • Cupidon and a Crown: A Story of Des Amis by M.E.M. Davis and illustrated by Lester Ralph

  • The Speculations of John Steele: Third and Last Time–Gone by Robert Barr and illustrated by F.R. Gruger

  • A Social Secretary: The Commentaries of a Caesar in Skirts with illustrations by Clarence F. Underwood

  • The Trust Inquisitor: The Man Who Commands the Secrets of Every Business Concern in the Country by J.J. Dickinson
  • The Works of Plupy Shute by Henry A. Shute
  • Literary Folk – Their Ways and Their Work
  • The Reading Table

    • 1905-03-18 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/03/18 — Cover design by J.C. Leyendecker

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

  • “The Swastika” A Story of Business by Clairvoyance and Marriage by Magic by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by Karl Anderson

  • American Progress in the Philippines by Willard French, with photos
  • “The Jensen Case” by Will Payne and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • Seeking Investment – The Promoter’s Story by George Carling and illustrated by Hy S. Watson
  • A Social Secretary – The Commentaries of a Caesar in Skirts, illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • Interviewed and Interviewer – Certain Celebrities as the Reporter Sees Them by Gertrude Lynch
  • “A Serenade of Joy” a poem by Frank L. Stanton with illustration by H.E. Townsend
  • The President’s Bible – And the Important Part It Has Played in Many Historic Inaugerations by Robert Martin Larner
  • Romance Between the Ledger Leaves by Otto W. Helbig
  • The Reading Table
  • Literary Folk -Their Ways and Their Work

    • 1905-03-25 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/03/25 — Cover design by Frank X. Leyendecker

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

  • The President on Divorce by Judge Marcus Kavanagh, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois
  • The Passing of a Graft: And What the Trolley Had to Do With It by Karl Edwin Harriman with two illustrations by N.C. Wyeth
  • The Millionaire at Church: Where Richest New York Does Lenten Penance and Celebrates Easter Tide by Rene Bache
  • The Kings by Robert W. Chambers is a poem overtop a full-page illustration by J.C. Leyendecker
  • Eliph Hewlett, Book Agent: How the Compendium of Universal Knowledge Secured a Maid for Mrs. Tarbro-Smith by Ellis Parker Butler
  • Tales of the Road: How to Get on the Road by Charles N. Crewdson and illustrated by J.J. Gould
  • A Social Secretary The Commentaries of a Caesar in Skirts is illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • The Speculations of John Steele: The Richest Woman in the World by Robert Barr and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • The Gospellers: Heroic Itinerants Who Carried Religion and Civilization into the American Wilderness by Rebecca Harding Davis and illustrated by Oliver Kemp
  • Oddities and Novelties of Everyday Science
  • Just Finding Money – How Some Men Have Recently Made Fortunes Out of Little Things by Charles Moreau Harger
  • The Reading Table – Includes poem The Stork Express Company by Hayden Carruth

    • 1905-04-01 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/04/01 — Cover design by F.B. Masters.

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

  • The Memoirs of an American – Part 1 of the serialized classic – by Robert Herrick and illustrated by F.B. Masters

  • The Elopement is fiction by Zona Gale and illustrated by Herman C. Wall
  • Mr. Hamshaw’s Love Affair is fiction by George Barr McCutcheon and illustrated by Will Grefe
  • Tales of the Road – First Experiences in Selling – by Charles N. Crewdson with illustrations by J.J. Gould
  • The Cares of a Caretaker is a 10-stanza poem by Wallace Irwin with J.J. Gould illustration
  • A Social Secretary – The Commentaries of a Caesar in Skirts with illustrations by Clarence T. Underwood
  • The Legislative Lobby – Big Business and Little Legislators by R.M. LaFollette, Senator-Elect from Wisconsin
  • The Cow of a Poor Man by Rene Bache

    • 1905-04-08 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/04/08 — Cover design by Charles Livingston Bull – Spring Fiction Number

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

  • Going Against the Octopus – How Kansas Is Getting Ready to Do Battle With Standard Oil – by Philip Eastman with photos of Senator Fred Dumont Smith, Governor E.W. Hoch, Senator Samuel Porter
  • “Mother’s Eyes” by Morgan Shepard and illustrated by Albert Sterling
  • “Love Letters of Plupy Shute” by Henry A. Shute and illustrated by W. Glackens
  • “The Sea-Goers” by Emery Pottle and illustrated by S. Werner
  • The Finding of Nicholas by Octave Thanet and illustrated by Emlen McConnell
  • “Why the Weekly Planet Died” by Alfred Henry Lewis and illustrated by N.C. Wyeth – 4 Wyeth illustrations
  • “The Memoirs of an American” — a serial picking up from Chapter 4 — by Robert Herrick and illustrated by F.B. Masters
  • At the Court of the Czar by Madame Nordica with photo of the author

    • 1905-04-15 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/04/15 — Cover design by Guernsey Moore.

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

  • The Wood Fire in Number Three: The Story of the Wandering Opal and Whither It Went by F. Hopkinson Smith and illustrated by Bayard Jones

  • An Uncle Remus Rhyme – Mr. Rabbit and His Big Boo-hoo by Joel Chandler Harris with illustration by Emlen McConnell (half-page)
  • Fair Railroad Regulation: Government Control Vital by Robert M. Lafollette
  • How Higgins Regenerated Hermon: Showing that Country Folks Know When a Good Thing Comes Their Way by Holman Day and illustrated by F.L. Fithian

  • Medical Miracles: Pasteur as the Epic Sower of Ideas by Arthur E. McFarlane with illustrations by Carl A. Strehlau
  • The Memoirs of an American by Robert Herrick and illustrated by F.B. Masters — Serialized, picks up with Chapter VI
  • Common-Sense in City Rule: The Law and the Home by Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago
  • Ad for Franklin automobiles on back cover

    • 1905-05-13 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/05/13 — Cover design by Guernsey Moore.

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

  • The Good Gray Poet at Home – His Familiar Talks fo Men, Letters and Events by Horace Traubel with photos of Traubel and Walt Whitman

  • The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont by Robert Barr and illustrated by Emlen McConnell
  • A Modest Home for Five Million by Rene Bache
  • Seeking Investment by George Carling with illustrations by Hy S. Watson
  • The Memoirs of an American by Robert Herrick and illustrated by F.B. Masters, serialized story picks up with Chapter 13
  • The Trail of the Serpent – America’s Clamor of Corruption and What It Really Means by David Graham Phillips with small illustration by F.X. Leyendecker

    • 1905-05-20 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/05/20 — Cover design by N.C. Wyeth

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

  • The Young Man in the World: The Young Man and the New Home by Senator Albert J. Beveridge
  • In Harden’s Place: A Telephone Story With Love on the Wire by J.E. Calkins and illustrated by Hy S. Watson
  • Mr. Scraggs Intervenes by Henry Wallace Phillips with three illustrations by N.C. Wyeth
  • With the Old-Time Players: Memories of Actors and Actresses of Bygone Years by Rebecca Harding Davis with illustration by Herman C. Wall
  • The Memoirs of an American by Robert Herrick and illustrated by F.B. Masters, serialized story picking up at Chapter XV
  • The Wood Fire in Number Three: MacWhirter’s Footpad by F. Hopkinson Smith and illustrated by Bayard Jones
  • The Cartoon Prophet: How He Plays Heads-I-Win-Tails-You-Lose, and is Beaten Only by the Weather by John T. McCutcheon and illustrated by the author

  • The Whimsical Consumer: Color, Not Quality, Is What He Seeks in Food by Rene Bache
  • Literary Folk – Their Ways and Their Work
  • The Reading Table
  • A New Way of Printing

    • 1905-06-17 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/06/17 — Cover design by Edward Penfield

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

  • The Tracer of Lost Persons by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by Clarence Underwood
  • The Penalties of Poverty – Why It Costs the Poor More than the Rich to Live Decently – by David Graham Phillips
  • A Corner in Jurisdiction by Hugh Pendexter and illustrated by Martin Justice
  • American Salesmen Abroad – A “Side Line” of Steel Rails – by Henry Harrison Lewis and illustrated by James Preston
  • “The Memoirs of an American” — serial picking up from Chapter 15 — by Robert Herrick and illustrated by F.B. Masters
  • The Riddle of Heredity by Rene Bache
  • Back cover features and ad from Peerless Iceland Freezer with a large color illustration by Elizabeth Shipper Green

    • 1905-06-24 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/06/24 — Cover design by Unknown — There is a signature but my source does not identify it and I cannot read it well enough to state it. If I had to guess I’d say it looks like S.S. Runyon.

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

  • The Real Defenders of Property by William Jennings Bryan and illustrated by C.A. Strehlau
  • “The Milpitas Maiden” A Story of Some Women’s Rights and Others’ Sufferance by Miram Michelson and illustrated by Gordon Grant
  • “Dear Little, Queer Little Man” a poem by J.W. Foley
  • “The Tracer of Lost Persons” A Pursuit of the Ideal and the Attainment of Happiness by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by Clarence Underwood, a serial picking up at Chapter 2
  • “In the Hands of the Law” The Story of a Receiver Who Really Received by Will Payne and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “The Memoirs of an American” by Robert Herrick and illustrated by F.B. Masters, serialized story picking up at Chapter XXVII
  • The Wood Fire in Number Three – Some Close Calls by F. Hopkinson Smith and illustrated by Bayard Jones
  • The Reading Table
  • Very Cheap Living in London by James L. Ford

    • 1905-08-05 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/08/05 — Cover design by Guernsey Moore

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

  • Old-Fashioned Honesty and the Coming Man: A Plea for Higher Education of the Sort that Makes Better Citizens by Grover Cleveland
  • A Round-Up in Central Park: In Which Cupid Follows a Trans-Continental Trail by Eleanor Gates with three illustrations by N.C. Wyeth
  • The Adventure of the Counterfeiters by S.M. Gardenhire and illustrated by Gordon Grant

  • Wall Street and Public Money: Early History of the Equitable in the Light of Recent Disclosures by Will Payne and illustrated by L.M. Blumenthal
  • The Lady and the Ladder: The Annals of an American Countess by Harrison Rhodes and illustrated by Karl Anderson, serialized story picks up from Chapter IX in this issue

  • A Cycle of Cathay: Wherein “Holy Joe” Makes and Braks the Amalgamated Laundrymen by Vincent Harper and illustrated by Harry E. Townsend
  • How and Why We Ought to Swim: An Ancient Sport Which Should Be Part of the Education of Every Modern Man by Rex E. Beach
  • The Reading Table
  • Literary Folk–Their Ways and Their Work

    • 1905-08-12 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/08/12 — Cover design by Guernsey Moore.

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

  • Baby Bullet: The Bubble of Destiny by Lloyd Osbourne and illustrated by Martin Justice
  • How Miss Wilcox Was Fired by I.K. Friedman and illustrated by John Cecil Clay – The Story of the Dangerous Stenographer and the Susceptible Grocers
  • Half a Dozen Silhouettes – Some Parties in the Case Drawn from Life – by Rebecca Harding Davis and illustrated by F.L. Fithian
  • Japan After the War by Frederic Courtland Penfield and illustrated by James Preston
  • The Wood Fire in Number Three by F. Hopkinson Smith and illustrated by Bayard Jones

  • Common Honesty and Common Sense by Charles N. Crewdson and illustrated by J.J. Gould

    • 1905-08-26 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/08/26 — Cover design by Unknown Artist.

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

  • Echoes of Greatness — Part 1: John Tyler — by John S. Wise with photos of William Henry Harrison, Henry Clay, John Tyler, John Sargeant, Henry A. Wise
  • The Bureau of Abnormal Litigation by Hugh Pendexter and illustrated by Emlen McConnell
  • That List of Bassett’s by Miriam Michelson and illustrated by Gordon Grant
  • Wall Street and the Public Money – Where the Policy Holders Come In – by Will Payne and illustrated by J.J. Gould and photos of George Westinghouse, Thomas F. Ryan
  • “Baby Bullett: The Bubble of Destiny” — A serial picking up from Chapter 7 — by Lloyd Osborne and illustrated by Martin Justice
  • What Uncle Sam Will Give You – Merely to Help Fill Pocketbooks of His People, He Employs Hundreds of Men and Distributes Millions of Dollars – by Rene Bache with drawing by Guernsey Moore
  • Greenroom Tales – Some True Stories of Stage Folk – by Chalres Bloomingdale, Jr.
  • Quarter-page ad for Coca-Col shows man with golf bag and woman with tennis racket and reads “After Exercise Drink Coca-Cola”

    • 1905-09-09 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/09/09 — Cover design by Charles Livingston Bull

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

  • Scribes and Pharisees by William Allen White and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • Echoes of Greatness: Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson by John S. Wise
  • The Saint at Home: Kind Employers Who Pay Insults With Wage by David Graham Phillips with illustration by W. Glackens
  • A Guide to Eldorado: The Story of a Social Experiment and what Came of It by Harrison Rhodes

  • Wall Street and Public Money: Getting In on the Ground Floor by Will Payne with illustration by M.L. Blumenthal

  • School Days – a poem by Joseph C. Lincoln

  • Baby Bullett: The Bubble of Destiny by Lloyd Osbourne and illustrated by Martin Justice, a serialized story picking up at Chapter XI
  • Fall Fashions in Bunco: Some of the Simpler Ways of Skinning the Innocent Countryman by Forrest Crissey and illustrated by J.J. Gould
  • Expert Testimony: Miss Flutterly Discussed the Value of Speech by Charles Battell Loomis
  • The Reading Table

    • 1905-10-14 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1905/10/14 — Cover design by Philip H. Goodwin.

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

  • The Wasteful West – How America’s Most Wasteful Blunder Cost the West a Great Opportunity and the Country a Food-Supply – by Emerson Hough with 5 illustrations by N.C. Wyeth, two of which are larger 4″ X 9/1/4″ drawings
  • The First of All the Line – The Chronicle of a Still Hunt for Ancestors – by W.B. MacHarg and illustrated by George Brehm
  • “The Idealist” by James Hopper and illustrated by H.C Wall
  • Echoes of Greatness: William McKinley by John S. Wise and illustrated by McCutcheon
  • The Crooked Trail — A serial picking up from Chapter 4 – by Will Payne and illustrated by Emlen McConnell
  • The Coming of the Leisure Class by William Allen White and illustrated by F.R Gruger
  • Book Leaves
  • Literary Folk – Their Ways and Their Work with photo of Ellen Glasgow

  • Sense and Nonsense
  • Player Folk – With photo of Maxine Elliott

    • 1906-09-29 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1906/09/29 — Cover design by Mrs. K.R. Wireman.

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

  • “The Windfall” by Robert Barr and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “The Socialist Machine” by Joseph Medill Patterson with illustration by Remington Schuyler
  • “God’s Country” a poem by Louise M. Smith
  • “Vaiti of the Islands” is part of a serial by Beatrice Grimshaw and illustrated by H.G. Williamson
  • “The Shame of the Colleges: The University of Chicago — A Self-Made Antique” by Wallace Irwin and illustrated by M.L. Blumenthal
  • “Players: Past and Present — Great Actress and Great Woman Charlotte Cushman” by William Winter with a photo and illustrated by H.C. Wall
  • “Who’s Who and Why” is about Charles A. Towne this issue

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: “1907 Cadillac Now Ready” from Cadillac Motor Car Company*, Mallory Cravenette Hats, Quaker Oats on the inside back cover, and a Victor Talking Machine Co. ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1906-10-13 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1906/10/13 — Cover design by F.R. Gruger.

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

  • “Sampson Rock of Wall Street” by Edwin Lefevre and illustrated by the Kinneys
  • “The Great American Steer — The Innocent Trail Drover” by Emerson Hough
  • “Who’s Who and Why” is about Roger Sullivan and Sir Caspar Pardon Clarke
  • “Vaiti of the Islands” part 4 of 5 by Beatrice Grimshaw and illustrated by H.G. Williamson
  • “At Paderewski’s Villa” by William Armstrong
  • “The Yellow Streak — And How it Came to the Surface” by Will Payne and illustrated by Rollin Kirby
  • “The Party Fetich — Patriotism or Partyism: A Straight Conscience vs. a Straight Vote” by Brand Whitlock, Mayor of Toledo

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Pope Motor Car Company*, Armour, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes*, Jell-O*, American Cigar Company*, Jap-A-Lac Varnish, Colt’s New Pocket Positive*, Packard*, Oldsmobile*, Winton Motor Carraige Co.*, Duplex Phonograph*, Cadillac*, and a Regal Shoes ad on the back cover and shown below. (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 (*))

    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 (*))

    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 (*))