Brain Power, September 1921

# Brain Power Magazine, September 1921

This inaugural issue combines serious instructional articles with aggressive direct-mail advertising. Featured content includes George William Wilder's "Fundamental Principles in Brain Development," an article by John J. Leary Jr. on great minds, and Wainwright Evans's "$150,000-a-Year with a Fountain Pen." A piece titled "Can Marriage Build Brain Power?" by "the Happiest Married Man in the World" offers relationship advice, while articles address education's national importance, child prodigies, physical handicaps overcome through willpower, and exceptional mental abilities. Illustrated features showcase wrestlers becoming master binders and photographs documenting various achievement narratives. The OCR shows substantial advertising material: a prominent O. Henry book set offer bundled with E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage fiction; a National Salesmen's Training Association promotion featuring testimonial success stories; and educational book series advertisements emphasizing income advancement. A fictional opening titled "When the Rattlesnake Struck" depicts a released convict's revenge narrative directed at a judge.