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''. It ran weekly from 26 December 1903 to 27 June 1931, and was then published monthly until April 1954. It took over the weekly ''Humorist'' in 1940. Among its most famous covers was the 1914

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recruitment picture, designed for the magazine by

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, of which the subsequent poster was a variation; at the time ''London Opinion'' had a circulation of about 300,000.''

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'', 2 August 2013
'Your Country Needs You' - The myth about the First World War poster that 'never existed'
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craze in 1907. Contributors included cartoonists

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Norman Thelwell
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and

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