Rats! Temperance, Bread Lines, Flight, Harper's Weekly Complete, Mar 14, 1908

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You are bidding on a complete issue (without overcover pages) of Harper's Weekly published Mar 14, 1908. The pages measure 9 x 13 (13 x 18 for center-folios) and this issue includes pages 3-34. All pages may not be shown due to space constraints. Great pictures, humor, science, literature, sports, theatre, history, news of the day, and wonderful old ads.
It is 1908
. Teddy Roosevelt is serving his last year as president and William Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan in the November 1908 presidential election. The Ford Model-T is introduced as is the Boy Scouts movement. Ghandi is arrested for the first time in South Africa. The Montreal Wanderers win the Stanley Cup. The IV Olympiad is held in London.
Cover page: "In Tribute,
W.A. Rogers
Temperance Reform in England
Crusade Against Rats
Henry Loomis Nelson
The Lengthening Bread Linnes
The Irish Party and America
The Flight of Man
The Army and What It Offers
"The Pied Piper of Politics" by
Grill
, centerfold
"The Gentle Art Of Self-Defense,
George Vall
ee
"Three's A Crowd" by Robert B. Robinson
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Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City. Published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916, it featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects, and humor, alongside illustrations. It carried extensive coverage of the American Civil War, including many illustrations of events from the war. During its most influential period, it was the forum of the political cartoonist Thomas Nast.