Periodical  
 Hearst's (New York, NY, USA) 
    
June 1917
 
In 1911, newspaper magnate 
William Randolph Hearst acquired Chicago's 
The World To-Day, renaming it first 
Hearst's Magazine, then 
Hearst's in 1914, and finally 
Hearst's International under which name it ran from 1921 until a merger with its rival 
Cosmopolitan in 1925. The magazine attracted an array of distinguished contributors, particularly novelists, including: 
G.K. Chesterton, 
George Bernard Shaw, 
Hall Caine, 
Arthur Conan Doyle, 
Rudyard Kipling, 
John Galsworthy, 
Maurice Maeterlinck,and  
Gabriele d'Annunzio. Published in New York and with a circulation around half a million, its cover price fluctuated between fifteen and thirty-five cents.
Sources
Hearst's. Galactic Central Magazine Archive.
Mott, Frank Luther. 
A History of American Magazines, Volume IV: 1885-1905. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957. 499-502.