True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1855-10-31
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PETERS0N'S MAGAZINE

Now is. the time to make up Clubs
PETERS0N'S MAGAZINE
The Best and Cheapest for the Ladies!
EDITED BY MRS. ANN s. STEPHENS AND
CHARLES J. PETERSON.
THIS popular Magazine, already the
cheapest and best monthly of lis kind in
the world, will be greatly improved for 1856.
1t will contain 900 pages of doube-column
reading matter from twenty to thirty Steel
Plates and over four hundred wood engrav-
ings which is proportionally more than any
periodical, of any price, ever yet gave.
Its Thrilling Original Stories are pronoun.
ccd by the press, the best published any.
where The editors are Mrs. Ann S. Stephens,
author of The Old Homestead, Fashion and
Famine and Charles j. Peterson, author of
Kate Aylesrord 'The Valley Farm ETC., etc.;
and they are assisted by all the most popular
female writers of America. New talent is con-
tinually being added, regardless Of expense, so
as to keep 'Peterson's Magazine unapproach-
able in merit. Morality and virtue are always
inculcated.
Its Colored FasOn Plates in advance 1t is
the only Magazine whose Fashion Plates can
be relied on. E'ch number contains Fashion
| = io'NJ ldNtu Ol DlGClJ COlOlCu d Ill WOupJ
and of unrvaled beauty The Paris, Loncon,
Philadelphia, and New York Fashions are de-
sclibed, at length, each month Every number
also contains a. dozen or more new Styles, en-
graved on wood Also, a Pattern, from which
dress, mantilla, or childs costume, can be
cut without the aid of a mantua maker, so
that each number, in this way, will save a
years subscription
Its Superb Mezzotints, and other Steel En-
CRAVINGS. Its illustrations excel those of any
other Magazine, each number containing a su-
perb Steel engraving, either mezzotint or line,
beside the fashion plate ; and, in addition, nu-
merous other engravings, wood cuts, patterns,
&c. DC. The Engrayings, at the end of the
year, alone are worth the subscription price.
Patterns for Crotchct. needlework, etc, IN
the greatest profusion, are given in every nun
Der, with instructions how to work them also
Patterns Embroidery, Inserting, Broiderie An
glalse, netting, Lace-makihg, ETC., etc. Also,
Patters for Sleeves, Collars, and Uhemisettes
Patterns in Bead-work, hair work, shell.work
handkerchief corners names for marking and
initials. Each number contains Paper Flower
with directions how to make it. A piece oil
new and fashionable Music is also published
every month. On the whole, it is the most
CohPleIe Ldules MaSaZlue III lne WOIlu. Try
it for one year.
Terms---Always in Advance.
One copy for one year. ...............$2,0
Three copies for one year. 500
Five copies for one year. 1850
Etghi copies for one year. r....,.. ... 1000
Premiums for getting up Clubs-Three, five,
eight, or sixteen copies, make club To every
person getting up a club, and remittieg the
money, our Book of Plates for 1885, will be
given gratis or, if preferred, a copy of the
Magazine for 1859 For a club of sixteen an
extra copy of the magazine for 1856 will be
sent in addition.
Address, postpaid, CHARLES ]. PETERSON
No. lO2 Chestnut Street, Philadelshia.
0'Specimens seMt, gratuitously, if written
for, postpaid
DAll Postmasters constituted agents. But
any person may get club.
Persons remitting will please get the Post.
master to register their letters, in which case
the remittance may be at our risk. When the
sum is large, draft should be procured, the
cost of which may be deducted from the amount
oct, "a, '55.