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The Youth's Companion (1827-1929) was a popular American children's magazine. It was published for over one hundred years until it finally merged with American Boy in 1929.

Early issues of the Companion were centered around religion, having been created, in the words of its first publishers Nathaniel Parker Willis and Asa Rand, to encourage "virtue and piety, and . Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N P Willis, (January 20 1806 – January 20 1867 was an American Author, Poet and editor . . warn against the ways of transgression". In its early years its circulation did not reach 5,000.

In the 1890s its content was recentered around entertainment, and it began to target adults as well as children with pieces contributed by writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Booker T. Washington, and Jack London. Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14 1811 – July 1 1896 was an American Author and Abolitionist, whose Novel Uncle Tom's Cabin Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30 1835 – April 21 1910 better known by the Pen name Mark Twain, was an American Humorist, satirist Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5 1856 &ndash November 14 1915 was an American educator orator author and leader of the African-American community Jack London (January 12 1876 &ndash November 22 1916 was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Another innovation was a medical column for older readers. In consequence, its circulation increased one-hundredfold, with sales peaking in 1893. It was advertised in 1897 as "an Illustrated Family Paper," having, as one person said of it, it done "away with childish things. " It did, however, retain a children's section, which included short poems and puzzles, and in faith to its beginnings, however, The Youth's Companion did not mention drugs or alcohol, nor did it delve much into politics; when it did, it usually did so in a humorous way. A drug, broadly speaking is any chemical substance that when absorbed into the body In Chemistry, an alcohol is any Organic compound in which a Hydroxyl group ( - O[[hydrogen H]]) is bound to a Carbon

From 1892 onward the magazine promoted the Pledge of Allegiance, which had been written by staff member Francis Bellamy. History The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy (1855-1931 a Baptist minister a Christian Socialist, and the cousin of Socialist Utopian Francis Julius Bellamy ( May 18, 1855 - August 28, 1931) was an American Baptist minister and Christian Socialist

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