The Workingman (1870-1872)

This magazine was published for only a short time (1870-1872). It was published monthly by T. S. Arthur and Sons and cost 60 cents for a year's subscription.

It is a "pictorial temperance paper" devoted to "temperance, industry, thrift, economy, self-improvement and the best interests of all who labor with hands or brain". Really it was a magazine for mechanics and their families.

In 1871 to increase circulation Arthur offered inducements to anyone getting ten new subscribers. That person would get either a large steel engraved portrait of Arthur, a copy of "The Angel of Peace", "Bed-Time" or a steel engraving of "The Wreath of Immortelles".

Arthur stopped publishing this magazine because he felt that dividing his time between three periodicals (The Children's Hour and Home Magazine were the other two) could not be done well.