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.