The Saturday Evening Post

THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

The Oldest Paper in America

Founded A.D. 1728 by Benjamin Franklin

The Curtis Publishing Company

THE ROMANCE OF THE SEACOAST
A series of thrilling articles of little-known phases of life along the Atlantic coast.

I – The Lights Along the Shore will describe the wondrous changes in lighting, and of the perfect system by which our government takes charge of the thousand and more lighthouses of the nation.

II – When the Fisher Fleet Goes Out to Sea. The thrilling dangers of a class seldom heard of – the Nova Scotia fishermen in their daily lives, their hardships and sufferings.

III – With the Life-Savers Along the Coast will tell of the everyday lives of those brave men who dare death and darkness in their angriest forms – showing the workings of a system that saves thousands of lives yearly.

IV – The Men Who Wreck Ships. It is popularly supposed that wreckers no longer exist; this article will tell of well-organized bands of wreckers who lure on to rocks, by means of false signals, rich vessels for the sake of their treasures.

V – Perils of the Smuggler’s Life.  The risks that are taken nightly to circumvent the Customs officials – a business that is much large to-day than it is supposed to be.

The illustrations in this series will be the most striking that have ever appeared in the Post.

MEN & WOMEN OF THE HOUR
Close-Range Studies of Contemporaries

Is the title of a weekly page that displays at a glance the panorama of people prominently before the public – portraits and paragraphs that tell the week’s history among the notable.

POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
The Post will give, in the course of the year, thousands of brief biographies, and sketches of its writers and authors, illustrated wherever possible with photographic portraits.

THE BEST POEMS IN THE WORLD
The poems in this series will be admirable illustrated, and, wherever possible, there will be a sketch of the life of the poet, with a portrait, and the story of how each poem came to be written. The poems will be selected, not from the standpoint of the ultra-literary man or woman, but for their appeal to lovers of sentiment. They will be poems of the emotions – those that appeal to the heart; poems that tell a story – those that are filled with human interest. They belong to what may be called the “pocketbook school of poetry” – those poems that one cuts from a newspaper and carries in the pocketbook till they are worn through at the creases.