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My recent trip to the Labadie Collection was largely for gathering information and notes on American individualists and mutualists operating in the decades after the end of Liberty and Tucker’s retirement to Europe. (So, e.g., a lot on Clarence Swartz’s activities, Herman Kuehn’s Instead of a Magazine, the work of Laurance Labadie, etc.)

Based on this research, I believe the award for the most name changes in a single periodical run will have to go to Edward H. Fulton, who began publishing The New Order in 1919, and ended up publishing The Mutualist in 1928. In between, the publication was called: The New Order (1919), 1776 American (1920), Ego (1921, 1923), The Egoist (1924-1925), and The Mutualist (1925-1928). Really, for all I know it may still be publishing, having gone through another 40 or 50 names in the interim; I ran out of time in Michigan before I ran out of boxes requested from the Labadie.