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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.