Everybodys Poultry Magazine Some notes the opinion of Jim Finger.
The name was copyright in 1915 but I am unable to locate my Bibliography of Serials to confirm the commencement and final date. I think 1885 is the first edition. I have also never seen a complete set of this mag.
The Editorial staff reads like a who’s who of the poultry fancy and industry of the day min the USA. Predominantly aimed at the fancier and small farmer, the articles are well written, sometimes controversial, and represent writing team that is excellent. One could do worse to base a book collection on the books written by the staff editors, and the contributors, and collect the art of these magazine artists.
Edwin Megargee did much of the cover art and was also instrumental in the art of ICS poultry school, and McGrews books. Louis Stamer and Louis Paul Graham also featured in the art of many poultry books of the day and several of the magazines. In fact, the articles index is a list of names well known in the trade for articles and books in their own right. The indexes are a useful source as to what books are of value in collections.
However, Everybodys did not have a strong game presence.
Group 1 Edwin Megargee front Covers
From the Library of Albert Brust
Condition fair/good reading
1916 Oct
1917 Jan Feb April Sept
1918 June Nov
1919 May Aug
1921 Jan April May July Aug Sept Dec
1922 Jan Feb Mar Oct
Group 2 Louis Stamer Front Covers Possible from Jimmy Gwin Condition Poor
1923 Nov Dec
1924 April Nov, Dec
!925 Jan, Feb, Mar. Apr, May, June Sept. Oct, Nov, Dec
1926 Jan, Feb, Mar, April, June, July, September
1927 May
Group 3 New magazine layout( change of management?)
1928 with Megargee covers Mar Oct Dec
1929 With Louis Paul Graham Covers Jan Feb
First Group Frontis Artwork Edwin Megargee Watercolor Print on cover. Megargee was both an author in his own right but also renowned for his plates in T F Mcgrew’s Book Of Poultry. Interesting that both McGrew as breed specialist and Megargee as artist were active in the Everbodys magazines.
Several of these copies have names on the back that look like the newsagents record of who has ordered. Albert Brust. I have several books with his bookplate.
The second Group Frontis artwork Lous Stammer. These are in much poorer condition.
Regarding provenance.
These copies came to me from John Skinners collection, and they are in two separate groups the earlier ones 1917-22 are the group from Albert Brust, though not all are named. I think they arrived to John from Albert Brust , but I cant be sure if there was someone else in the path. They are clean and bright. One copy shows signs of having been bound in a group.
The second group came via John Skinner. I have related elsewhere where Jimmy Gwin’s archive caught fire and many of the books were saved. Several collections of books arrived to me via John Skinner who was a witness to the fire. I attribute those with scorch marks or smoke damage from the Jimmy Gwin collection. Jimmy Gwin’s collection was rated the largest in the USA, but it did feature very heavily on commercial and research materials. In John Skinners large collection including virtually complete bound set of Poultry Tribune, and these Everbodys showing smoke and damage and a number of books showing signs of smoke or fire. I am happy to quote the provenance of these books as via Jimmy Gwin and John Skinner finally to myself in the 1980’s.
The third group have the new management covers, coinciding with a new address of the company . Very good condition . Provenance From John Skinner to myself but otherwise unknown.
I have also a few water damaged books in my collection from John Skinner, that I also attribute to Jimmy Gwin.
FS
53 Issues Everybodys Poultry Magazines various from 1916 to 1929.
Prefer to sell as a whole. $600 plus post. First to post sold gets them.
Variable condition
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I am reading the book listed below and I thought this page placed in start relief, our present situation.
Influenza Pandemic and Post-War Malaise '
Beginning in January, 1919, the Spanish Influenza pandemic reached Australia, killing 12,000 Australians and millions world-wide. Churches, schools and meetings were closed, and the Anzac Day marches planned for April 1919 were cancelled. Strict quarantine regulations delayed the landing of troopships and each State closed its borders in an attempt to isolate the little understood disease.12 In North Hobart, a run-down section of the Tasmanian capital, victims died in large numbers. In September 1919, local churches formed an Emergency Clothing Committee that set out to discover the extent of hardship created by the epidemic. Hobart was divided into thirteen districts, each of which was supervised by a clergyman. The Rev. E. Herbert Hobday, pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle, was in charge of North Hobart. Through visitation he discovered that almost every family in North Hobart had lost at least one member to the flu and that housing conditions were deplorable. He organised his church for action, appointing Ruby Livingstone as a full-time Sister' to work with the needy. The women and young men of the church then helped to establish the Ware Street Mission as a permanent church outpost to help the poor of North Hobart. This included both personal evangelism and advocacy of public programs to correct the conditions that bred disease.13 Even more enduring than the impact of the flu pandemic was that of the returned men on the Australian community in the 1920s. Australian historian Patsy Adam-Smith recalled her own childhood memories of the sights and smells of the maimed:
We lived in a world where men were called 'Hoppy', 'Wingy', 'Shifty', 'Gunner', 'Stumpy', 'Deafy', 'Hooky', according to whether they lost a leg, an arm (or part of one), an eye, their hearing, or had a disfigured face drawn by rough surgery into a leer ... And we listened through the thin walls when our parents came home from visiting a 'returned' uncle in hospital: 'I can't stand it. I can't go again.' It is mother. Your father's voice comes, strangled, like hers, 'You'll be alright.' 'No, but the smell. When he coughs ... and breathes out... it's ... oh, I'm going to be sick.' But she goes back next Sunday and the next until the day you go to school with a black rosette on your lapel, and the flag is flying half-mast for your Uncle Dick who was gassed.14
For some time after the war there was a shortage of ministerial candidates in the evangelical churches. This was especially true of the Methodists who gave so many of their sons to the war. Many had not returned, and a number of those who did return no longer desired to enter the ministry. Men who had been too young to serve felt the war's impact and they too were lost to the ministry. In the case of the NSW Methodists, only four candidates for the ministry presented themselves for training in 1921, and that number did This same psychological and emotional damage manifested itself in almost all returned men, including the most stable and devoutly Christian among them.
From “Attending to the National Soul” Piggin and Lidner 2020 Monash University Press. (I edited out the list of references for brevity on the net)
Remember no modern heath care, no vaccines, no payouts to ease the burden, no modern housing. 400,000 went to WWi, 60,000 died, 230,000 of those who returned were maimed and injured maimed and injured, only to face this pandemic. Only answer Lockdowns, and minimise the spread as much as possible.
Think carefully on what we perceive as disadvantage.
Jim
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