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Argosy and Railroad Man’s Magazine

For a couple of years Munsey bolted his railroad magazine onto his fiction weekly and sold the pair for a dime. April 5th, 1919, leading with “Cold Steel” by George C. Shedd.

The Argosy

No cover art at all — just orange paper, black rules, and the news that two new serials begin in this issue. In August 1905 The Argosy was selling on the reading alone.

The Popular Magazine

The First July Number, 1913: a lifeboat riding a grey sea away from a sinking ship, painted by somebody who had clearly been out in real weather. Ralph D. Paine, Burton Stevenson and Peter B. Kyne billed on the front.

Collier’s

The National Weekly, five cents, with a splendid grumpy gentleman in a top hat and a red scarf on the front. The big general-interest weekly that landed on every porch in America.

The Popular Magazine

Two hundred and forty-eight pages for fifteen cents, and on the front a girl in a scarlet snow-suit who has sat straight down in the middle of her own skis. The general-fiction twice-a-month at full strength.

The American Magazine

A man with a scythe on the cover and the line “The Mowing — a new adventure in contentment.” Two hundred and eighty-four pages of 1910 America being earnest at each other. It is lovely.

Argosy All-Story Weekly

The granddaddy of the pulps — swashbucklers and cliff-hangers, a nickel’s worth of adventure every single week.

no download: the source is 900+ loose multi-issue page scans, not one complete issue file — nothing honest to hand over, so this one reads at source.