Plan No. 574. Custodian for U. S. See Plan No. 217
Plan No. 575. Pictorial Business Magazine
A western advertising man induced a talented local cartoonist to join him in the publication of a pictorial magazine of purely local events of interest, and together they soon made it the most talked-of publication in the city which had a population of about 100,000.
The magazine was well printed, on good paper, and contained items of interest to and concerning prominent people in all lines of business—merchants, lawyers, doctors, dentists, judges, politicians, and other well known people.
The artist was quite gifted in reproducing the features of people, and the faces thus drawn were often attached to bodies of supposedly the same people in more or less grotesque positions there being an element of humor in most of the drawings. The humor, however, was of the clean, inoffensive kind, and was greatly enjoyed by the victim as well as by his acquaintances.
In a short time they had over 2,000 regular subscribers to the magazine, which was published weekly, and with the growth of the circulation the advertising space became more and more valuable, so that inside of three years their annual income was considerably in excess of $4,000.