Two periodicals

Scope and Content: One issue of "Good Dressing". Home Pattern Company, July, 1914. This magazine was published by the Ladies Home Journal. One issue of "Tit-Bits Digest". July 25, 1914. The Tit-Bits Digest was formed from Tit-Bits, a weekly magazine. "General weekly magazines were fundamental to life in Brita…

History Biographical: These two magazine issues were found in the attic of a house at 13th Street and 18th Avenue North, Lethbridge, Alberta.

Scope and Content: One issue of "Good Dressing". Home Pattern Company, July, 1914. This magazine was published by the Ladies Home Journal. One issue of "Tit-Bits Digest". July 25, 1914. The Tit-Bits Digest was formed from Tit-Bits, a weekly magazine. "General weekly magazines were fundamental to life in Britain right through the Victorian era until the 1970s, when most of them were killed off by supplements, colour TV taking away advertising and the recession. They were the first mass media with claimed sales exceeding a million copies a week by 1910 and were 50 years ahead of daily newspapers in carrying regular illustrations and almost a century in advance when it came to colour. From about 1880, they exploited the advent of fast typesetting and printing and woodpulp paper to become truly mass market products, with Tit-Bits blazing the way to sell 200,000 a week by 1883 and 600,000 before the century was done." (http://www.magforum.com/general_weekly_magazines.htm). Downloaded October 15, 2015.