Just to update on the project.  I haven't gone away or anything.

I'm evaluating my options for a better way to archive and present these things.  It's becoming clear that the way I'm doing it now, isn't exactly useful.  That and (like everything else) time has become an obstacle.  It's happening, just slower than I'd like.

What I would really like, is a true "library" sort of system, where I can keep track of articles, their author, the artists, even the ads, by page, by issue, etc.  Possibly (hopefully) including OCR'ing some of this stuff.  I'm looking at Greenstone at the moment....

In case you were wondering why it hasn't been updated in months :D  I didn't want to go pouring more images into this system if I'm just going to replace it.

• The Snow Shovel
• Narrative: Snow Balling; Or, The Christmas Dollar, A Story Founded on Fact - By Miss Leslie (concluded from our last.)
• Morality: The Robin's Nest, The Sunday Party
• Benevolence: The Load of Coals
• The Nursery: Have You Any Brothers and Sisters
• Religion: The Little Captive Maid of Israel
• Editorial: Good Morals and Good Manners

Link: The Youth's Companion Magazine - December 28th, 1838 - Vol. 12 - No. 33

• Reading and Sewing
• Narrative: Beauty is Vain
• Parental: Festivals, by Mrs. L.H. Sigourney
• The Nursery: How Easy it is to Obey, A Lesson For Young Children
• Morality: The Cottager, by Mrs. L.H. Sigourney; The Rabbits (A True Story)
• Variety: The Huzzas of Posterity, A Motherly Monkey, A Chinese Boy, Escape, Melancholy Accident, A Child Burned to Death, A Good Wife
• Poetry: Little Harry Lee, by "Cousin Mary"; Children at Play

Link: The Youth's Companion Magazine - November 30th, 1838 - Vol. 12 - No. 29

• James Happy at Work
• Narrative: A Lost Child
• Morality: Abundance of Blessings
• Descriptive: Sufferings and Death of the Apostles
• Religion: Wait For the Light
• Sabbath School: To the Children in my Sister's School, at B-----, Hartford, June 2, 1838; The Old Man's Story
• Variety: The Little Girl and the Statue, "I Just Did", A Sailor, Bed Prayers, Singular Reason for Joining the Sabbath School
• Poetry: A Wife's Affection, by "Roy"; Hymn (Composed to be sung at a Juvenile Temperance Meeting.) [Ed - Wha?]; My Mother

Link: The Youth's Companion Magazine - October 19th, 1838 - Vol. 12 - No. 23

• The Stolen Picture
• Narrative: Emily Warner,--No. 3
• Morality: Punctuality
• The Nursery: The Little Girl Who Wanted None of God's Good Things
• Religion: A Talk About Death, A Praying Heart Will Find a Place to Pray
• Sabbath School: Hide and Seek
• Variety: Excerpts from "My First School Book" pub. by Perkins & Marvin: What Kitty Did, Toothache; [Unintell...], The Jew Boy, Influence of the Bible on a Sailor Boy, The Honest Effort, Ill-nature
• Poetry: Respect for Age, by L.H.S.; A Child's Evening Prayer, by S.S. [Sabbath School?] Teacher; I Must Be Neat, from Christian Intelligencer; Child's Morning Prayer, from the Watchman

Link: The Youth's Companion Magazine - October 12th, 1838 - Vol. 12 - No. 22

• Give Me The Sword, Child's Annual
• Narrative: A Thrifty Family
• Morality: The Wise Choise; or, Greenwich Fair
• The Nursery: Do Thyself No Harm
• Benevolence: A Leaf From a Missionary Journal
• Obituary: Elizabeth Tenney, (from the Watchtower) [Ed. -- -That- Watchtower?]
• Religion: The Wounded Soldier
• Editorial: The Wood-Vine
• Variety: The Bee and the Butterfly, from the Western Christian Advocate, "Written by a little girl nine years of age," Glorianna H. Killbourne; Praying with the Heart, Reasoning of the Child
• Poetry: A Child's Garden, by Mary Hewitt

Link: The Youth's Companion Magazine - August 31st, 1838 - Vol. 12 - No. 16

This is the first of a batch I acquired ranging from 1838 into about 1840 (I'll have to sort through them to be exact.)  At this point the Companion was only 12 yrs old, and its roots in religion are still quite evident.

The magazine's original intent, that of a religious periodical are very clear.  You'll notice that few of the articles have any author attributions, and many seem to be letters, or excerpts from other religious periodicals and newspapers around Boston.  Most of the articles seem to be "instructional" in nature, vs. the later issues which are chock full of information, non-fiction, and fiction.

You'll also notice quite a few references to the "Sabbath School", admittedly I don't know what this is.  I will have to do some research and find out.

The only images you'll find in these issues is a small block print on the front page, and there is no advertising whatsoever.  Hopefully I can get some issues in between these and the 1890's I have (patience! they'll make it!) to see how things evolved.

Keep a historical perspective in mind here.  This was only a short 60-odd years after the American Revolution.  The Civil War hadn't happened yet, and most of the US still hadn't been explored, let alone settled.  A lot of what we take for granted simply didn't exist.  For example, the reference to the "Sandwich Islands" in this issue, which we now know as the state of Hawaii.

I suspect that the primary readers of these early issues were likely school teachers and/or church leaders, who would then read them to their students, since literacy was still not all that prevalent.

These issues are for the most part in surprisingly good condition, but some of them are missing chunks from the edges here and there.

The paper looks to be broken down into sections based on subject matter or content categories, which seems to carry through more or less to each issue.

• I've Lost My Way (from the French)
• Narrative: Partiality (Concluded from our last)
• Descriptive: Letters From Sandwich Islands, No. 5, Wailuku, Maui, November 8, 1837 [Ed.-- modern day Hawaii]
• Parental: Conversion of Children
• Morality: The Two Houses
• Sabbath School: Letters From a Teacher, to the Children who Attend the Sabbath School at S.  Boston, April 25, 1838
• Editorial: "Pleased, and yet Sad." (from our Correspondent)
• Independence, Mr. Willis, South Reading, July 4th, 1838
• Variety: Usefulness of a Library Book, The Emigrant Child, Beauty and Goodness, Fourth of July Accident
• Poetry: The Captive Bird, Home

Link: The Youth's Companion Magazine, July 20th, 1838

• New England Edition Jacket - The Christmas Trumpeters, "A Noontime Carol on the Balcony of the Old State House, Boston"
• New England and Other Matters, The Dogs of Belgium
• Lotta Embury's Career, by Elia W. Peattie, in Ten Chapters, Ch 4, drawn by Florence E. Storer
• A Tale of the Poplar, by Charles Boardman Hawes, drawn by Chase Emerson
• The Dreadnoughts, by Henry Reuterdahl, photos by Enrique Muller
• "Old Ma'am" Simpsky's Hen, by Sarah McBride, drawn by Franklin T. Wood
• McLain's Best Shot, by Franklin Welles Calkins, drawn by Gilbert Gaul
• Fact and Comment, 1914, Taking it Back, Dress and Age, A Great Naval Strategist, An International Police
• Current Events, The European War, "Autographic Kodak" Ad
• The New Mother, by Abbie Craig
• Convalescence, by Arthur Powell
• Being Sure, Their Unclouded Judgment, A Long Time Without Honor, Old Friends, Collies at Work, The Heart of Poland, Calling on an Alligator, Too Much for a Philadelphia Lawyer, The "Jim" Poem, A Joke on Bismarck, A Question of Roads
• On Skip's Birthday, by Clayton H. Ernst
• The Fairy's Name Was Whisper, by Miriam Clark Potter
• Puzzles
• In The Alps, by John Clair Minot, drawing Mountain Boys, by Gertrude A. Kay
• From Constantinople to Nicaea, by John Heard Jr.
• Nature and Science
• Aneurysm, Shopping and -- Shopping, At the Shrine of the Shepherdess, Young America to the Rescue, Out of His Proper Place
• Offshore Chance, by Theodore Goodridge Roberts, drawn by W.F. Stecher
• The General to the Rescue, Better Than Canvas
• Daniel Webster Flour Ad "The Time has Come"

Link: The Youth's Companion - December 31st, 1914, New England Edition, Vol. 88, No. 53

• "The Week Before Thanksgiving" Photo Cover
• New England and Other Matters, Why Salute?, A Man-Made River
• The "Torpedo" Girl, Ch. 3, by Gardner Hunting, drawn by Chase Emerson
• The Wild Dog of Caucomgomoc, by Charles Boardman Hawes, drawn by Charles Livingston Bull
• Lights on Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, by Wayne Whipple, drawings by Franklin T. Wood
• Isabel's Sane Christmas, by Mary M. Parks, drawings by W.F. Stecher
• White Tiger, Ch.9, by Henry Milner Rideout, drawn by George Varian
• Fact and Comment, The German Ideal, Investors, Managers, and Employees, The War Children's Christmas, Private Property at Sea, The Question of Farming VIII. People's Banks
• Current Events, The European War
• A Prayer, by Marion Francis Brown
• 'Neath Cottage Thatch, by Martha Haskell Clark
• Meeting the Battle, The Blue Gingham Apron, Boy Scouts in France, The Nantucket Quakers, The Oldest American Flag, Making Christmas-Tree Ornaments, A Maddened Jaguar, The Queen's Voice, As Others See Us, Perpetual Motion
• Christmas Gifts, and How to Make Them
• Favors and Sweetmeats That a Little Girl Can Make For Her Party
• Multiple Sclerosis, The Brook Lot, Professor Henry and the Airship, The Land of Honest Men, The Way to Boston
• Finding a Shelter, by Frank K. Rich
• Nature & Science, "Will there be a Victrola in your home this Christmas?"
• A Green Mountain Amazon, by M.E. Baker

Link: The Youth's Companion, November 19th, 1914, New England Edition, Vol. 88 No. 47

Well, this concludes the issues I have for 1920. I've got some much older one's in store!

• When Old Peg Led the Flock, by C.A. Stephens, drawings by W.F. Stecher
• Lucy Barnhill's Garden, by J. Grace Walker, drawn by Harold Anderson
• A Walk in the Woods in Winter, Part Two, by Wardon A. Curtis, drawings by Arthur Bartlett
• Suzanne, Ch. 3, Dick comes to see the hen, by Edith Barnard Delano, drawn by F.R. Gruger
• Fighting Ice With Ice, by Gorton Veeder Carruth, drawings by Wendell P. Dodge
• Fact and comment, California and Japan, National Defense, Mystery, Forest Cultivation, The Wave of Crime, 1920
• My Host, by Arthur Guiterman
• The Mother, Thelma and Duke Street, When Whistler Painted Carlyle, The Shepherd Sculptor of France, Winnowing in India, Overdoing Neighborliness, Across the Valley on a Wire, The Grand Old Disturber, A Man of His Word by Arthur Watts via London Opinion
• Books, by Annette Wynne
• The Most Secret House, Ch. 1, by Mary Norwood, drawn by Elisabeth B. Warren
• A Year, by Frances C. Hamlet
• Old Tales Retold by Uncle Ned, IX. The Deceitful Lion, by E.W. Kemble, drawn by same
• Combination Aluminum Cooking Set, full page ad
• Asthma, A Scientific Experiment, "Not Ice", When Buffalo Bill Planned to Kill His Wife, Two Points of View, On the Wrong Tack, Commodore Preble's Temper, The Soil Was Pretty Rough
• "Old Santa knows what's good to eat, he always chooses Cream of Wheat" full page ad

Link: The Youth's Companion - December 30th, 1920 - Vol. 94 - No. 53

• Two of a Kind, by Roe L. Hendrick, drawings by O.F. Howard
• Chief Longfeather's Christmas Tree, by Anne McQueen, drawings by Rodney Thomson
• A Walk in the Woods in Winter, Part One, by Wardon A. Curtis, drawings by Arthur Bartlett
• Suzanne, Ch. 2, Angele meets a good friend, by Edith Barnard, Delano, drawn by F.R. Gruger
• Failing to Spike the Lever, by Harold T. Chesbrough, drawn by W.F. Stecher
• Fact and Comment, Importing Foreign Quarrels, The Tariff, The Unknown God, Prices, Supporting Prices Artificially
• The Companion in the New Year, Current Events
• Home-Products Day, by Grace Atherton Dennon
• Untempted Righteousness, Sophie, Roman Antiquities in Tunisia, The Mountains of the Sea, A Scissor, The Wild Ride of an Eagle, An Old-Time Blast Furnace, A Scotch Egg's Worth, The Hypnotic Bugler
• Fiddlesticks, by Louise Ayres Garnett, drawn by Bertha Stone
• The Curious Christmas Tree, by Margaret Ely Webb
• The Little Sheep of Bethlehem, by Elizabeth Thornton Turner
• The Stranger, by Harrison Long, drawn by Marguerite Kaeselau
• Christmas Shopping, by Virginia Stanard
• The December Stars, A Girl's Quick Wit, Sauce for the "Grouch"
• Blue Babies, Lilybel's Reason, A Ride in a Pampas Coach, A Newspaper Dog, A True Philospher, "Me and the Prince", An Indiscreet Admission
• "Clock or Hour Glass?", P and G - The White Naphtha Soap, full page ad

Link: The Youth's Companion - December 23rd, 1920 - Vol. 94 - No. 52

• Historic Milestones Cover: Daniel Boone
• Wilson Ham Full Page Ad
• Suzanne, Ch. 1, The Germans come, by Edith Barnard Delano, drawn by F.R. Gruger
• The Day of Days, by Charles Reynolds Brown
• The Emmonses' Christmas, by Rebecca T. Hodges, drawn by Dudley Gloyne Summers
• In the Days of Old Mehitable, by C.A. Stephens, drawn by W.F. Stecher
• Torpedoed Without Warning, Ch. 5, Garfield startles his companions, by Paul Telford Platt, drawn by George Varian
• Fact and Comment, The League Meets, The Useful Yeast, The Children of Europe, The Fall of Venizelos, Lessons of the Shipping Board, The Civil Service
• Current Events
• Ploughed Under, An "Eyot", How They Saved the Ainsdale, Hunting With a Crazy Quilt, Mr. Peaslee on Back Roads, Japanese House Inscriptions, The Whistling Intruder, Four Years of Dirt
• The Star, by Katharine Lee Bates, decoration by W.A. Dwiggins
• A Christmas Baby, by Isabel Fiske Conant, drawn by Gertrude Kay
• Tuck's Adventure, by Agnes M. Bass
• The Prideful Tree, by Mary Carolyn Davies
• The Surprise Box, by Edith Ludwell Laurence, drawn by Bertha Stone
• Stamps to Stick, "Structo Toys" ad
• The Hats of Long Ago, Glass in a Fir Tree, An Example in Kindness
• The Plague, The Sign in the Window, His Scottish Blessing, Artillery Sniping, The Baby Hippo by Stella V. Kellerman, Strawberries and Cream and a Moral, He Seemed Very Old to Her
• Jell-O full page ad
• Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen full page ad

Link: The Youth's Companion - December 16th, 1920 - Vol. 94 - No. 51

Time to get caught up!

• Heart's Desire, by Beth B. Gilchrist, drawings by May Aiken
• The Fighting Visitor, by Hugh F. Grinstead, drawn by R.L. Lambdin
• The Outwitting of Mrs. Wiersema, by J. Grace Walker, drawn by F. Strothmann
• Economic Freedom, by Logan G. McPherson
• Torpedoed Without Warning, Ch. 4, Things appear and vanish, by Paul Telford Platt, drawn by George Varian
• Fact and Comment, The Partition of Turkey, Fiume, Drudgery, The "Solid South", Seven New "Immortals"
• Current Events
• The Hill of Yesterday, by Gertrude West
• The Cricket in New York, Silent Service, Inside "Old Mose's" Trap, "Positive" Bill Heaton's Chink, The First Oval Lathe, "Plenty, Thank You!" (Arthur Watss in London Opinion), Situations Wanted by Our Dumb Pets, An Artist's Bank Account, A Costly Coat
• A Ringster, by W.E. Nesom
• Full-page Ad for The Youth's Companion Home Calendar and Subscription Renewal
• Family Page for December, Choosing Garments, II. Fabrics, A Sharp Razor, The Road to Fortune
• Full-page ad for Kodak Cameras, "Among the Christmas Gifts"
• Girl's Page for December, Christmas Candlelight, The Gift You Have Forgotten, Distinctive Hair Ornaments, No More "Appropriate" Christmas Gifts, An Easy Way to Bind Magazines, Special Days, Other Ideas for Christmas
• Boy's Page for December, Profitable Trapping, III. Beaver and Otter, Developing Your Upper Arm, The Game of Checkers, A Comeback, The Expunged Figure, A Peep-Show Fox, Tiddeldywinks Baseball
• Shock, "Tain'tasif"
• Full-page Ad, Ivory Soap Flakes, "The safe way to wash colored blouses"

The Youth's Companion - December 9th, 1920 - Vol. 95 - No. 50

• Circumstances, by Sally Campbell, drawings by A.O. Scott
• A Modern Don Quixote, by Charles A. Hoyt, drawings by F. Strothmann
• Arithmetic: Historic and Prehistoric, by D.N. Lehmer, Professor of Mathematics, University of California
• Unto This Mountain, by Marianne Gauss, drawn by W.F. Stecher
• Torpedoed Without Warning, Ch. 3, The painter breaks, by Paul Telford Platt, drawn by George Varian
• Fact and Comment, The Republican Opportunity, The Chances of the Treaty, The Renewal of Beauty, The Coal Strike Settlement, The Victorious Esperanto, The Unknown Dead
• The Blacksmith Furnace, Charlotte's Second Wind, The Challenge, The Mystery Towers of Spithead, Mr. Peaslee as a Fireman, The Cleansing of the Things-Kept-Put-Away, A Tusker Gone Mad!, They Are Not Wearing Them So Much
• The Jolly Jellyfish, by Pauline Frances Camp, drawings by Gluyas Williams
• Good Morning and Good-By, by Nancy Byrd Turner, drawn by Elisabeth B. Warren
• Bobsleds, by Daisy D. Stephenson
• Tea Time, by Grace Noll Crowell
• A Disrespectful Dog, A Globe-Trotting Turtle, Answer This
• Hide and Peep, by Harriette Wilbur, drawn by Walt Harris
• An "Honest" Smuggler, Washington's Account Book
• Nature & Science
• Jenny's Ingenuity, The First Kimberley Diamond
• Nuts to Crack
• Cyclic Vomiting [Ed: WTF?!], Ashamed, And Then He Added Them Up, Commonplace Children of Geniuses, Why Birds Are Not Electrocuted, Trying Out Chaucer
• Full Page Ad: Parker "Lucky-Curve" Safety-Sealed Fountain Pens

Link: December 2nd, 1920 - Vol. 94 - No. 49

• Western Railrod Historic Milestones Jacket
• Wilson Ham Ad
• The Widened Hearth, by Fannie Kilbourne, drawn by Thomas Fogarty
• Jimmy's Job, by Edward P. Hendrick, drawn by Rodney Thomson
• Tales of the Big Woods, By E.E. Harriman, drawn by O.F. Howard
• A Home For Jack-O'-Lantern, by Edna Tucker Muth, drawings by A.C. Williamson
• Torpedoed Without Warning, Ch. 2, The crew tie a coat to an oar, by Paul Telford Platt, drawn by George Varian
• Fact and Comment, The Election, A Solemn Responsibility, Compliment, The Economic Future of Germany, The Grafters
• Thanksgiving and Wild Game, Current Events, The Converse "Big Nine"
• The Old Garden, by Abbie Farwell Brown
• A True Bibliophile, by W.E. Nesom
• Paying the Price, Aunt Sabina Speaks, The "Lost" Portrait of Lincoln, Butter in a Bag, A Savage Duel, The Witty Prince, The Responsibility For the War, A Wonderful Opportunity, Not Excessive Cleanliness
• Thanksgiving in Bunnytown, verses and drawing by L.J. Bridgman
• Birch Tree, by Abbie Farwell Brown
• The Wonder Nut, by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
• Autumn Song, by Virginia Stanard, drawings by Decie Merwin
• The Jewelweed, by Alice W. Hamilton
• The Companion Receipts [Recipes]
• A Game of Proverbs
• Convulsions in Children, Gifts and -- Gifts, "Californiacs", When Buffalo Bill Rode to Hounds, Self-Confident Young America, A Diligent Novice, Commercial Candor
• Books That are Talked About
• "Kodak as you go." Full page Eastman Kodak Ad.

Link: The Youth's Companion - November 25th, 1920 - Vol. 94 - No. 48

• American Landmarks Jacket, "The Old Missions of the South West" (exact location not stated)
• P and G - The White Naphtha Soap, "Egg Beater or Fork?" Full Page Ad
• Holbrook, "Johnny", by Edwin Cole, drawn by Lee Townsend
• The Barrel Trap, by E.E. Harriman, drawings by F. Strothmann
• The Little Heaven, by John H. Finley, painting by Tompkins Harrison Matteson
• "Thriends", by Gardner Hunting, drawn by George Avison
• A Night in the Ark, by Roe L. Hendrick, drawn by G.A. Harker
• The Inefficiency of Ellen, by Winifred Kirkland, drawings by May Aiken
• Torpedoed Without Warning, Ch. 1, The lifeboats are launched, by Paul Telford Platt, drawn by George Varian
• Fact and Comment, The International Court, The Possibilites of Oil Shale, Thanksgiving, The St. Lawrence Project, Disagreements, New European Alliances
• Current Events
• The Last Hunt, by Gertrude West
• The Kingmakers, Giving Cynthia Good Times, Tsung's Strange Weapon, The Battle of the Mothers, Our Grandmothers' Pie Wheels, The "Monkey's" Gibe, Prophetic Archaeology, The Origin of "Two Bits", Just Where He Had Left It, Rescued -- In What Condition?
• The Cruise of The Mary Lou, by Nancy Byrd Turner, drawn by Gluyas Williams
• Paper Magic, by Margaret Ely Webb
• Whistlebreeches, by Strickland Gillilan, drawn by Mary T. Ayer
• The Foolish Young Mouse
• A Forest Combat, A War - The Medical Board
• Stamps to Stick
• What They Did Not Know About Crape, Preserving Eggs Without Water Glass, Old-Fashioned Armor, Caw! Caw! Caw! Caw!, Historic Libels, As Meek As a Lion Cub
• Eye Symptoms of General Diseases, Changing Fashions, A Wise German, Not the Seven-Hour Season, The Confidence of Two Robins, A Metaphorical Orgy, Clever Johnny
• "Skookum Apples Make Skookum Smiles", Full Page Ad, Northwestern Fruit Exchange, Seattle, Wash. [Ed: Um, OK...]
• "The Great American Daily", Full Page Ad, Cream of Wheat

Link: November 18th, 1920 - Vol. 94 - No. 47

• In The Absence of Mary Hortick, by J. Grace Walker, drawings by Harold Anderson
• Norah's Bright Idea, by Marguerite Aspinwall, drawn by C. Williamson
• When I Acted a Mute, by E.B. Dirking, drawings by Harold Sichel
• The War-Trail Fort, Ch. 10, The river takes its toll, by James Willard Schultz, drawings by George Varian
• The Snowslide, by W.A. Bartlett, drawings by W.F. Stecher
• Fact and Comment, The British Coal Strike, Our Protectorates, The Business Woman, The Russo-Polish Treaty, Hunger Striking, Testing the Breeds
• Current Events
• Memorial Trees, by Jeannie Pendleton Hall
• Lost Opportunity, Transfer Patterns, Curtsy and Kiss, Mr. Peaslee on Heroism, An Adventuring Weasel, The Wrong Kingdom (George Belcher Cartoon), A Victorious King in Exile, The Whole Case For the Birds (from poems by Ralph Hodgson), A Test of Nerve, He Wanted a Full Trip
• The Face of the Waters, by Louise Ayres Garnett
• How Indian Summer Came, by Ellen Miller Donaldson
• A Chord of Wood, by Celia Thornton
• The Piggish Pig, by Abigail Burton
• Those Pilgrim Children, by Arthur Guiterman, drawn by Wuanita Smith
• "I'm patriotic as can be", cartoon by Walter Wellman [Ed: I really don't get what this is supposed to be!?]
• Boys' Page for November: Profitable Trapping (II. Skunk, Civet Cat, Opossum, Weasel and Ermine), His Recommendation, Tying a String Round a Package, A Way to Copy Prints, How to Develop Your Chest, A Moving Match Trick, The Game of Checkers (New Series)
• Girls' Page for November: A Puritan Party, The Hospitable Hour, Christmas Cards That Will Pay, Skiing for Girls, Then-and-There Thrift
• Family Page for November: Choosing Garments (I. Textiles), Training Children to Obey, Cleaning a Clock at Home, A New Kind of Christmas Giving, Long Division By Addition, An Honest Exchange, The Useful Tin Steamer, How to Make a Doll House, The Godfrey Calla, The Farmer's Girls, Fun For the Child Who is Getting Well, I-Me-Or-Mine, An Old-Time Game, City-Broke, How to Be An Invalid, A Place For the Children's Rubbers
• Lem, (by staff?), drawn by W.F. Stechen
• Marasmus, The Talisman, Marquis Wheat, An Affectionate Jackdaw, Writing Himself Down an Ass, Poor Shooting!
• Ivory Soap Flakes Full Page Ad, "Safe for Silks and All Fine Fabrics"

Link: November 11th, 1920 - Vol. 94 - No. 46

• "Announcement Number" - Describing Notable Stories and Articles for 1921
• "The Family is the Strength of the Nation" cover jacket
• Tam O' Shanter Believes in Safety First, by Mabel L. Robinson, drawn by Charles M. Relyea
• Dawn, by Lena Cagnetta, drawings by J. Scott Williams
• The Pilgrim Adventurers, by Abbie Farwell Brown, decorations by Robert Martin
• The War-Trail Fort, Ch. 9, Big Lake calls a council, by James Willard Schultz, drawings by George Varian
• Kiting a Caquot, by Oran L. Raber, drawn by H.C. Edwards
• Fact and Comment, Russia and Communism, British Liberals on Ireland, Hatred of Work, The Census, Magellan, Automobile Accidents
• Current Events
• November (Football), by Arthur Guiterman
• The Root of Courage (The Story of a Corporal's Discovery), In the Shadow, Big Betsey, A Parliament of Women, Russian Noblemen Turned Farmers, The Dowager in Cheyenne, This Must Have Been Grisi's Company, But They Probably Were Not Linen, It Did Not Help Auntie's Nerves
• The Goosey Girl, by Isabel Jamison, drawn by Gertrude Koch
• The Little Brown People, by Katherine Pope
• Emily Speak a Piece, by Leila M. Walters
• The Pantry Race, Verses and Drawings by L.J. Bridgman
• The Squirrels' Ball, by Elizabeth Heath Olmstead
• Splendor and Tragedy, Out of Their Own Mouths, Nuts to Crack
• Fastrunner, by Maxine Marshton, drawn by Robert Martin
• Wasting Palsy, Snell's Theory, Little Bards and British Bays, A Quail's Queer Family, With Care -- This Side Up, He Had All He Needed, Rebuking Childishness
• Announcement for 1921 The Youth's Companion, "The list of articles on this page is intended to give readers some indication of the quality and the scope of the material that The Companion plans to publish in 1921."
• Borden's Eagle Brand Advertisement, "More than all other Infant foods combined"

Link: November 4th, 1920 - Vol. 94 - No. 45

• Talents By Agnes Mary Brownell, Drawings by May Aiken
• What Killed Plato, by C.A. Stephens, Drawn by W.F. Stecher
• The New Baltic Republics -- Lithuania and Finland, by Samuel Eliot Morison, Ph.D
• The War-Trail Fort, Ch. 8, The Mandans sing their victory song, by James Willard Schultz, Drawings by George Varian
• The Day the Killers Came, by Alice Stevens Carter, Drawings by Harold Anderson
• Fact and Comment, President vs. Congress Again, Clean Sport, The Vote of the Women, The Italian Settlement, Studying the Sea
• Current Events, 1/2 page Westclox ad
• Saturday, by Gertrude West
• Unknown by Name, The Way Back, Afire in Mid-Air, Cyrus and Hiram, A Hedgehog Road, Juno's Parish, Over the River in a Leather Ball, Reason or Instinct, Hugo's Self-Appreciation, Crossing on the Wires, It Was a New Word to Her
• October, by Pauline Frances Camp
• Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater, by Roger Wingfield, Drawn by Nana French Bickford
• Tam-O'-Shanter, by Alice Ayr Noyes
• Kitty Wakes Up, by Ethel Bowen White
• Fiddle-cum-ree, by Louise A. Garnett, Drawn by Mary T. Ayer
• Stamps to Stick
• Infantile Scurvy, Beating the Game, How a Fox Showed His Affection, Unappreciated Neighborliness, He Wrote on Inspiration, Anticipating the Speller
• Cream of Wheat Ad, "The Blocks Tell The Story", Otto Schneider

Link: October 28th, 1920 - Vol. 94 - No. 44

This issue is labelled the "regular issue" for October 21st, which means there must have been a "special issue" this week, since the page numbers appear to jump an entire issue since the 14th.

In this edition there is an additional section, where the publishers list all the goodies that kids could win or purchase for an additional cost when they sign up more subscribers. Prizes included bicycles, cameras, and a chance to win a trip to Niagra Falls! Lots more period stuff was available at various cost plus a certain number of subscriptions sold. The details of how this worked are on page 639, and the "catalog" runs until page 660. I'll leave exploring all of this fine 1920 merchandise up to you!

With this additional section, and the added color cover, this one weighs in at a full 40 pages.

• Color Halloween Jacket, with Colgate sponsorship and Poem
• The Strange Disappearance of Grandpa Edwards, by C.A. Stephens, Drawn by John Wolcott Adams
• When Barbara Went to Work, by Marguerite Aspinwall, Drawn by Frank Crerie
• An Outpost in Nigeria, by Capt. R.A. Duckworth Ford, F.R.G.S.
• The War-Trail Fort, Ch. 7, Lame Wolf prays to his raven, by James Willard Schultz, Drawn by George Varian
• In a Chaff Pocket, by Hugh F. Grinstead, Drawn by A.L. Ripley
• Fact and Comment, Alexandre Millerand, The Baseball Scandal, Accidents, Our Debts and our Debtors, Horse-Chestnuts, Easy Vaccination
• Song of the Fagots, by Louise Marshall Haynes [Ed: Word used in the classical sense, just so you know...]
• The Magnetized Needle, Nora's Shoes, Hunting the South American Ostrich, How a Statue is Enlarged, When the Kafirs Deserted, Military Tactics in Fishing, Clocks and Time-Tables, He Appreciated the Dinner, A Rural Touchstone
• The Wind, by Mazie V. Caruthers
• Rep's Run and Polly's Fun, by Edith Roelker, Drawings by Harriet O'Brien
• The Guests, by Celia Thornton
• The Miser Squirrel, by Maria Conde, Drawn by L.J. Bridgman
• Full Page Ad For the Oliver Typewriter Company ("Was $100 before the war, now $64!"!)
• The aforementioned offer section for young Youth's Companion affiliate marketers! So much wonderful stuff!
• His Master's Telephone Number, Radium the Rare, Electricity in the Bathroom
• Nature and Science
• Diamond Thieves, Making Attar of Roses, They Were a Good One, Too
• Rickets, Too Sweet, An Irascible Elephant, Confused Ideas, It Hit The Mark, As a Special Favor
• Full Page Jell-O Ad "Never Do to be Without Jell-O!"
• Full PAge Musterole Ad "Better than a Mustard Plaster" [Ed: I guess before Menthol there was this?]

Link: The Youth's Companion - October 21st, 1920 - Vol. 94 - No. 43

• The Perseverance Organ, by Phyllis Meredith, Drawn by A.O. Scott
• The Giant King Ray, by Archibald Rutledge, Drawn by Forrest Orr
• How Many Stars Are There?, by Dr. C.G. Abbot, Director, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
• The War-Trail Fort, Ch. 6, Abbott fires into a clump of sagebrush, by James WIllard Schultz, Drawings by George Varian
• Four Steps Across, by Russell Gordon Carter, Drawn by Lee Townsend
• Our American Foreign Policy, The Left-Hand Drive, Self-Consciousness, Price-Fixing, Meat Eating and the Meat Industry, Anarchy
• Our Haunted Land, by Odell Shepard
• Your Light, Pansy and Sue, A Soldier's Answer, Grandma's Weasel, A Prophet in His Own Country, Another Curious Rock, Taking His Degress, Not To Be Exploited, You Cannot Live On Three Cheers, Why She Talked
• Water, by Richard Jeffrey Brown
• The Rose, by Mary Stanton Boutwell, Drawn by May Aiken
• The Lost Bedquilt, by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
• A Thought, by Frances C. Hamlet
• Old Tales Retold By Uncle Ned, VIII. The Fox and the Crow, by E.W. Kemble
• A Fall Question, by Martha Banning Thomas
• Family Finance, The Coming of the Mayflower: a Pilgrim Pageant, Taking the Blame, A Book Trick
• Cranberries - Sugar and Acids, Another Trick With String, Cooking by Graded Temperature
• Two Kinds of Evening Wrap, "Floating Islands", Cakes That Will Quickly Disappear, Fall Sketching, Parents and the Sunday School
• Beauty Based on Health, 1. The Value of Regular Exercise
• Profitable Trapping, Strong Wrists, Hints For Rapid Reckoning, The Pin Sled, Slide Checkers
• Cancellation, Aerial Fire Control
• An Automatic Poultry Feeder, Collecting Lichens, A New Domino Game
• A Cabinet For Home Remedies, Making Stereoscopic Photographs
• A Position of Trust, (staff?)
• Aphasia, After the Storm, Is the Chinese Diet Adequate?, She Took the Next Train, A Convex Canal, Not Too Sick to Make a Bull
• Ivory Soap Flakes Full Page Ad

Link: The Youth's Companion - October 14th, 1920 - Vol. 94 - No. 42

For October 7th, 1920. Got to love some of the ads in this one, particularly the "Union Suit" one, and the now defunct Essex Motors. Wonder why they'd advertise for autos in a kids magazine? Unless they assumed the parents would be reading it to their children or something....

• The War-Trail Fort, Ch. 5, Two Crows raise their right hands, by James Willard Schultz, Drawings by George Varian
• The Body-Guard, by Edwin Cole, Drawn by Rodney Thomson
• The New Baltic Republics, Esthonia and Latvia, by Samuel Eliot Morison, Ph.D, Formerly American member of the Baltic Commission of the Peace Conference
• On Time, by Theodora Marshall Inglis, Drawn by Dudley G. Summers
• A Flight From Petrograd, Ch. 8, in which a flag goes up, by C.A. Stephens, Drawn by G.A. Harker
• The "Old Diplomacy" in Europe, The Bible and Shakespeare, The Italian Outbreak, Spinning Tops
• October LaCrosse, by Arthur Guiterman
• The Mayflower's Flag, The Handwriting on the Wall, Manhandling the Profiteers, An Adventure With a Tiger
• The Children's Page, Decorations by Robert Martin
• The Doll That Saved a Regiment, by Miriam Cocke
• The Young Columbus, by Nancy Byrd Turner
• Ducky Waddles, by Abigail Burton
• The Merchant, Verse and Drawing by L.J. Bridgman
• The Fall of the Armature, (staff?), Drawn by W.F. Stecher
• Full-Page Ad: Cross-Knit Underwear Union Suit
• The Companion Receipts (Recipes)
• John Leake's Dole, A Strange Conversion, A Noisy Army, Essex Motors Ad
• A Far-Reaching Experiment, A Terrible Explosion, Where Trapping is Worth While
• The Lingual Tonsil, A Woman's Invention, Another Smart Fox, One More Sovereign Deposed, A Thrifty Book Lover, Only a Dud, Ingersoll Radiolite "Radium" Watch Ad
• Proctor and Gamble "The White Naphtha Soap" Ad

Link: The Youth's Companion Magazine, October 7th, 1920 - Vol. 94 - No. 41

I've (finally!) uploaded those sections of the Sentinel that I'd found along with The Youth's Companion issues. The 1933 pages came out fairly well. The image files are sort of large (1600 pixels wide), so on your monitor you'll have to scroll around to read them, unless you've got a high-res screen.

The 1934 issue (the society pages) might look a little strange. I wasn't able to take these pages with me, so I had to shoot each page in four parts on the dining room table! From there I had to overlap, skew, and stitch the lot together. Believe me, that was a bit of work. So, my apologies for the quality of those images.

I may go back in and try to summarize some of the key points on the pages, but there's just a lot of stuff to go through there.

Link: Milwaukee Sentinel Albums in the Library

In this weeks edition:

• The War-Trail Fort, Ch. 4, The steamboat refuses to stop, by James Willard Schultz, drawings by George Varian
• Dust and Ashes, by W.F. Skerrye, drawing by W.D. Eaton
• Our Need of the African Tropics, by Sir Frederick Dealtry Lugard
• The Affair of the Eggs, by Clara Constance Curtiss, drawing by Ernest Fuhr
• A Flight From Petrograd, Ch. 7, in which Lexy waves a white flag, by C.A. Stephens, drawing by G.A. Harker
• Fact and Comment: Christian Reunion, Mountains and Sea, Training for Citizenship, Justice and a Troubled Conscience, Looking Into the Future, The Farmer's Vacation
• Current Events
• From Mallard Pond, by Gertrude West
• The Things of Caesar, Surrounded by Elephants, The Latest Excuse, The Oyster Tree
• Two Kinds of Post, by Lucy F. Mallory
• Miss Mouse in the Meadow, by Daisy D. Stephenson, drawings by George Varian
• The Enchanted Thimble, by John Ruse Woodward
• Progress, written and drawn by Margaret Ely Webb
• Full-page Ad for "The New Companion" sewing machine
• Protein Idiosyncrasy, Young America Reads Milton, Snowshoeing on Bering Strait, French Thrift, Nantucket Idioms

This time around....

• Historic Milestones Cover, DeSoto's Discovery of the Mississippi
• The War-Trail Fort, Ch 3, Far Thunder rids the plains of a rascal, by James Willard Schultz
• The New Dietetics, by Dr. C.W. Saleeby, F.R.S.Edin.,F.Z.S.
• As Told by Mr. Tubbs, by May Kelsey Champion, drawings by R.L. Lambdin
• A Little More, by Eleanor Ford Hay
• A Flight From Petrograd, Ch. 6, in which the anarchists use a powerful weapon, by C.A. Stephens, drawing by G.A. Harker
• The League of Nations, Wanted - A New English Grammar
• Current Events
• The Warning, by Grace Agnes Timmerman
• Out of Setting, His Glasses Saved Him, Japanese Dress, A Family Almost Wiped Out
• Weeding, by Isabel Jamison
• Susie's First Party, by Frances McKinnon Morton, drawing by Margaret Ely Webb
• The Little Rill, by Edith Ludwell Laurence, drawing by Elizabeth C. Bower
• The Canny Wee Scone, by Jane M. Miller
• The Ink Well, by Abbie Farwell Brown
• Nuts to Crack, ad for Daisy "Liquid Pistol", The Hold-up (squirt gun!)
• Steve Rodman's Ordeal, uncredited
• Typhus Fever, The White of the Egg, A Grateful Wren
• Full-page "Instant Postum" ad