• New Tales of Ajumba, by Thomas S. Miller, Ch. VI, Dream Soul
• The Queen Elizabeth Quotation, by Mary Foot Lord
• How Uncle Sam Makes Our Money, by Aaron Hardy Ulm
• John Baring's House, by Elsie Singmaster, Ch. 5
• A Fracas With Manchurian Bandits, by John F. Bennett
• The War in Asia Minor, Bringing Back the Dead
• Current Events
• Pros and Cons of Sheep Raising
• The Children's Page, Nuts to Crack

• Luck, by Brewer Corcoran
• The Brass Owl, by Ida Williams Rea
• Where Farmer and Laborer Meet, by E.G. Nourse
• John Baring's House, by Elsie Singmaster, Ch. 4
• The Blimp and the Rogue, by C.A. Stephens
• Still Discussing the Peace

Another three issues from 1920...

• New Tales of Ajumba, By Thomas S. Miller, Ch. V, Contraband
• A Paxville Parallel, by David H. Talmadge
• The Importance of the Infinitely Small, by Dr. Alexander Findlay, Professor of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen
• John Baring's House, by Elsie Singmaster, Ch. 3
• Bogardus, The Weasel, by Clayton H. Ernst
• The 1920 Democratic Convention
• The Cardiff Giant Hoax
• Stamps to Stick
• Briggs-Stratton Motor Wheel Advertisement

Added July 15th, 1920 - Vol. 94 - No. 29 to the Library. This issue has a great cover jacket, in addition to the usual fun inside. I am surprised, though, that this didn't come out a couple of weeks earlier. Oh well, its still fun.

• Thomas Jefferson/Declaration Signing portrait...
• Influence Unawares by Frances Greenman
• Taming a Terror by Roe L. Hendrick
• Sitting Bull's Last Trail by Fred Copeland
• John Baring's House by Else Singmaster (Ch. 2)
• The Failing Flash Light by George C. Lane
• The Children's Page
• Still more great ads, including 3 full-page color ads on the extra jacket.

Added July 8th, 1920 - Vol. 94 - No. 28 to the Library. In this issue:

• John Baring's House by Elsie Singmaster (Ch. 1)
• The Unpardonable Sin by C.A. Stephens
• Working Your Way Through College by Frederick Paul Keppel (Ch. 2 of 2)
• New Tales of Ajumba by Thomas S. Miller (Ch. IV?)
• Down Hazel Hill by Hugh F. Grinstead
• a couple of articles about the 1920 Presidential elections
• Baseball for All the Family, A Window Sleeping Tent
• The Girls' and Boys' pages for July

Added July 1st, 1920 - Vol. 94 - No. 27 to the Library. In this issue:

• Marcia's Party Dress by F. Cameron
• Three is a Crowd by Charles A. Hoyt
• Working Your Way Through College by Frederick Paul Keppel (pt. 1 of 2)
• Sons of Liberty by Theodore Goodridge Roberts (Ch. 10)
• Nothing's Impossible by Malcom E. Moran
• a note about "The Prohibition Amendment"
• Lots of great old ads!

I've added another issue, December 3rd, 1914's New England Edition. To be perfectly honest I'm not sure what differentiates the NE Edition from the "Standard" edition yet, other than the inside back page has a section entitle "New England and Other Matters." When I get some issues from the same date I might be able to make a better judgement.

Works in this issue include:

• Ammon's Long Whip by C.H. Claudy
• Old Plantation Days by Archibald Rutledge
• The Art of Conversation by Mrs. Burton Harrison
• The "Torpedo" Girl by Gardner Hunting (Chapter 5 of 5)
• Under the "Spouter" by Fisher Ames Jr.
• A column on "The European War," namely World War I.
• A timely piece called "How to Keep Resolutions"
• A great Campbell's Tomato Soup ad, "Under the Love-Apple Tree"

I haven't annotated it yet (still haven't done the last ones either! who's got time!)

Link: The Youth's Companion - December 3rd, 1914 - Vol. 88 - No. 49 - New England Edition

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I've added a few more issues. Mostly complete ones, but a few seem to be short a page or two... I acquired these from eBay, and I've got a lot more to scan in. Some of these are quite a bit older than the original set.

I still have to annotate these, but here are the links to their respective pages. (Edit: !!! There is one page missing I have to go back in and scan! Argh.)

- February 15th, 1883
- February 11th, 1886
- April 22nd, 1886
- September 10th, 1891
- June 20th, 1901
- August 18th, 1904
- August 18th, 1927 (Incomplete)

I've also added a category into the library where I'll post images of other old newspapers, ephemera, etc. I come across. I've got some Wisconsin newspapers from the 20s and 30s that will go in there.

Well, here it is. I'm still working on it, namely the theming. I haven't even started theming the library yet, so it's still stuck in default mode. It'll change. I've added a few more issues (I've got a bunch more yet to scan!)

I hope you enjoy the new look, and with the RSS feeds it should help keep you up to date with new additions!

IN July, 2007 my parents came across a stash of old newspapers, and pages of The Youth's Companion underneath a drawer in a built-in cabinet in their house. The house was built in the late 20's by my great-grandfather.

THESE pages of The Youth's Companion were addressed to my great uncle, who would've been a young lad at the time, and must've been a great source of entertaining reading, judging by the missing pages and the general condition. Unfortunately only one issue was complete, and time had taken its toll on all of the material there.

I'VE reproduced those pages here for historical purposes, to give a bit of insight into what the kids of the 20's were reading for fun. I think it sure beats sitting in front of the television watching cartoons.

IT'S also interesting to read about the current events of the day, and the contemporary perspectives. The advertising is a lot of fun as well.

I HOPE you enjoy this. If this goes well I will look into acquiring and digitizing more issues, and getting The Youth's Companion Project off the ground.