Take a look at this portrait,
signed by Goodnow there is no year and only the words “Cleveland Topics.” I like local history and old paper but I
felt this was too random and couldn’t see bringing it home. When I asked how
much, I was shocked to hear her say “No charge.” I may have been the only one
after the line of early birds to show any interest in its heritage and was
bribed to take it and research it. The bribe, or generosity as I prefer to
think of it, was accepted.
I was pleased to see
attached to the back was a folded piece of letterhead and the portrait
subject’s business card. Using these, I did the best search I could. Cleveland
Town Topics began publishing in 1887 and was “a review of Society, Art, and
Literature.” It catered to the upper crust of society reporting gossip, events,
other goings-on and lasted until the very early 1930’s when the depression
caused it to merge with a similar publication The Bystander. This move
couldn’t save either publication and both seem to be gone by 1934.
There is nothing I can find
on Harry C. Eggleston, only a little on the back of a photograph of the editor
Frank Foxcroft (above), and nothing on the artist, Goodnow. If reader would like to
tackle this mystery, I invite you to leave what you find in the comments. I
know there’s always more to the story.
During WWII the Kelloggs
Company was trying to take on the evil axis powers by publishing cartoons along
with their recipe newsletters. Take
a look at a few of them here.
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