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This photo was taken inside the bindery of The Pilgrim Magazine, published in Battle Creek from about 1900 until 1906. The magazine was headquartered on Tomkins Street (later renamed United Way) in what would become the Moon Journal building, which itself would be absorbed into the Enquirer and News plant on Van Buren Street in the 1950s. A portion of the fieldstone building still stands, covered with aluminum siding, to the rear the old Enquirer building, although much of it was razed in 1982. The former newspaper plant has since been converted into a church — New Harvest Christian Center. Pilgrim Magazine, a women's magazine that once reported a circulation of 120,000, was five years old when it built the porticoed structure just north of the Battle Creek River. The magazine, which had a staff of 75, moved in 1906 to Detroit and in 1907 to St. Louis, where it folded.