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From the outset, the magazine was a mass-circulation commercial publication on cheap newsprint which soon reached sales of between 400,000 and 600,000. By the turn of the century, it became the first periodical in
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was selling only 200,000 copies per issue. A final issue was published on 18 July 1984 under its last editor Paul
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submitted her first article to the paper in 1890, at the age of eight, but it was turned down. The first humorous article by
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appeared on the magazine's covers from 1939, and by 1955, circulation peaked at 1,150,000. At the beginning of 1973,
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