The Argosy for May

The Argosy for May This issue consists primarily of advertising material from the back pages of the magazine. The visible OCR captures promotional content for various home-study and mail-order products popular in the early 1900s: music lessons by the U.S. School of Music; a fifteen-volume Library of Universal History offered by the Union Book Company at reduced rates; the Meister Piano sold direct from factory at $175 with payment plans; the 1909 New Americanized Encyclopedia from the Booklovers Society; Oliver Typewriters available through a penny-payment plan; and advertisements for plumbing school, real estate business, baldness treatment, eyeglasses, and undergarments. The cover promises a story titled "At His Mercy," though the OCR of that content is unavailable in this selection. The material reflects standard commercial publishing of the period.