Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1878 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

ST. NICHOLAS, Scribner’s Illustrated Magazine FOR OIRLS AND BOYS. An Ideal Children’s Magazine. Messrs. SURIBNEB A CO., in 1878, began the nuhllraitlofi of ST. Nicholas, an Illustrate! Magasine for Girls awl Boys, with Mrs. Msrv Mu pcs Dodge ns editor, rive yen;* havepnstod since the first number was issued, and tbs Waff* trine has won the highest position. It bus a monthly circulation of Crv®* SO,OOO Copiea. It Is published simultaneously tn London and Now York, and the transatlantic recognition Is almost its Fen era 1 and hearty as the American. Although the progress of t’le msgHzln# lias been a steady advance, it has not reuejiod Us editor’s ideas of boss, Ocentfsc her ideal continually ontruns It, and the uiagazlde as swiftly follows after. To-day ST. 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