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Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII is a late‑Victorian children’s periodical, issued on January 3, 1891 by James Elverson in Philadelphia. The front matter reads like a bustling storefront, listing a parade of advertisements, from telegraph kits and magic lanterns to stamp catalogues and patent medicines, interspersed with titles such as “The Origin of Dolls,” “A Happy New Year,” “Lee Holland’s Adventures,” and “Royalty in Exile.” The issue is framed as a bound collection of short stories, puzzles, and practical pieces, each separated by the same commercial blurbs that dominated the era’s paper‑based marketplace. The opening page therefore offers a snapshot of a single day’s reading, where literary content and mercantile persuasion coexist on the same sheet.
The tone is earnest and didactic, reflecting the genteel optimism of the 1890s. Language is straightforward, with occasional moralizing asides (“Decide not rashly…”) and a lively cataloguing of curiosities that would have appealed to curious youngsters and their parents. Readers who enjoy exploring the texture of turn‑of‑the‑century youth culture, its stories, riddles, and the relentless tide of period‑specific advertising, will find this volume a vivid window into the world that shaped a generation of American children.
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Complete Outfit for learning Telegraphy, and operating Short Lines of Telegraph, from a few feet to several miles in length. Consists of full size, well made Giant Sounder with Curved Key Combination Set as above, together with Battery, Book of Instruction, insulated Wire, Chemicals, and all necessary materials for operating. Price $3.75. Sent by express upon receipt of amount by Registered Letter, Money Order, Express Order or Postage Stamps. Morse Pamphlet of practical Telegraph Instructions free to any address. J.H. BUNNELL & CO., 76 Cortlandt Street, New York. Largest and Best Telegraph Supply House in America.
Is made on entirely new principles and produces the most desirable QUALITY of tone combined with the greatest volume and carrying power, making it the finest instrument extant for stage or parlor use. PRICE LIST MAILED FREE. LYON & HEALY, Chicago.
CIRCULARS to young people only. Money for you. Address Novelty Typewriter Co., Oswego, N.Y.
This company does not handle Farm Mortgages, but City Investments only. The WINNER COMPANY has paid its investors over Two Million Dollars in profits since 1883, without a single case of loss.
To be convinced of this send to WM.M. PARMENTER, 50 State St., Boston, Mass. for circulars explaining the business of the WINNER INVESTMENT CO. Mailed free to any address.
Send 2c. Stamp for Sample Book of all the FINEST and Latest Style CARDS for 1891. We sell Genuine Cards, not Trash. UNION CARD CO., COLUMBUS, OHIO.
Views illustrating every subject for PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS, etc. -> A profitable business for a man with a small capital. Also, Lanterns for Home Amusement. 208 page Catalogue free. McALLISTER, Mfg. Optician, 49 Nassau St., N.Y.
WORLD'S Fair Railway Puzzle. Lots of fun: sample 10c.; 3 for 25c. Morton & Co., Box 848, Chicago
MINIATURE PHOTOGRAPHS 12 for 25c. Sample 2c. Copied from photographs or tintypes, which WE RETURN. THE BARTHOLOMEW STUDIO, WALLINGFORD, CONN.
Advertising Rates for "Golden Days."
Single insertions, 75c. per Agate line. Four insertions, 70c. per Agate line for each insertion. Thirteen insertions, 65c. per Agate line for each insertion. Twenty-six ", 60c. per Agate line for each insertion. Fifty-two ", 50c. per Agate line for each insertion.
Eight words average a line. Fourteen lines make one inch.
JAMES ELVERSON, Pubisher, Philadelphia, Pa.
China, Nicaragua, Honduras. Old Japan and Egypt, Bosnia, Peru, Orange, Hawaii, fine old U.S., Interior. Treasury, P.O., War, etc., with elegant Stamp Album, only 25c. 100 assorted rare Mexico, Ceylon, Guiana, Turkey, Costa-Rica, etc., only 10c. Large new 20 page Price-list, etc., FREE! AGENTS WANTED at 33 1/3 per cent com. STANDARD STAMP CO., removed to 923-925 Lasalle St., St. Louis, Mo.
We lead; others follow. We are the world wreckers on low prices. Ten-cent sets--3 Malta, 2 Montserrat, 5 Newfoundland, 2 Paraguay, 4 Dominica Republic, 2 St. Vincent, 2 Sierra Leone, 5 Straits Settlements, 3 Suriname, 2 Tobago. 40-page price list, 2c. New coin catalogue, 10c. E.F. GAMBS, Coin and Stamp Dealer, 4 Sutter Street, San Francisco, Cal.
100 all different, 10c.; 300 all different. $1.25; 500 all different, $2.25. price lists free. Agents wanted to sell stamps from my unequalled sheets at 33-1/3 per cent, com. Wm. E. Baitzell, 412 N. Howard St., Baltimore, Md.
300 Mixed, rare Australian, etc., 10c.: 75 fine varieties and nice album, 10c. Illustrated list free. Agents wanted, 40 p.c. com. F.P. Vincent, Chatham, N.Y.
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