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1928-06 American Magazine Contents

1928/06 — Cover design by Victor C. Anderson

Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:
ARTICLES:

  • “They Are Hell Bent!” Albert Payson Terhune
  • “They Are Not!” by Harold Bell Wright with drawings by Frances Rogers
  • “Chase Osborn, the Iron Hunter” by Webb Waldron
  • “Doc Kinkade — The Man Who Put Us Across” by Commander Richard E. Byrd, USN
  • “Divorced!” by Keene Sumner with drawing by Rollin Kirby
  • “Back Up Now and Then — You May Get a Better Start” by Helen Christine Bennett
  • “These Swift Courtiers Are Always Homeward Bound” by Appleton Street with drawing by Lynn Bogue Hunt
  • “The Greatest Bridge in the World and the Man Who Is Building It” by M.K. Wisehart
  • “Advice Is All Right If You Don’t Take Too Much of It” by Ross Santee
  • “Paine’s Career Is a Triumph of Early American Virtues” by Frederick L. Collins
  • “The Strange And True Story of One Modern Girl” by May B. Mullett
  • “Houdini’s Conquest of America” by Harold Kellock (4th article in a series)
  • “Dime Wise and Dollar Foolish” by Clarence Budington Kelland
  • “There’ll Be 9,000 Earthquakes This Year!” by George W. Gray

    • FICTION:

  • “White Birches” by Nelia Gardner White and illustred by Hanson Booth
  • “Grindstoned” by Hugh MacNair Kahler and illustrated by Victor C. Anderson
  • “The Frame-Up” by Octavus Roy Cohen and illustrated by George Brehm
  • “Dot Tries to Help Poor Mattie Coates” by Fannie Kilbourne and illustrated by T.K. Hanna
  • “Stardust” by Howard Brubaker and illustrated by R.M. Brinkerhoff
  • “Sunset Pass” Part III by Zane Grey and illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner

    • SHORT FEATURES:

  • If You Ask Me by Merle Crowell

    • Interesting People:

  • Tommy Luther article by Mildred Harrington
  • Norma Bamman article by Helen Christine Bennett
  • M.F. Chapman article by Rupert Murray
  • Mrs. Minna Schmidt article by Norman E. White
  • Captain Charles Bruder article by Margery Cederstrom
  • What Do You Hate Most to Pay Out Money For?
  • The Thing I Hate Most to Do (Prize Contest Awards)
  • The Family’s Problems

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows:Ivory Soap, Chrysler, Franklin Airman Series, Prince Albert, Chesterfield Cigarettes illustrated by Tepper, Firestone, Wrigley’s Double Mint Gum, Camel Cigarettes, golfer Alex Smith for Lucky Strike Cigarettes, Coca-Cola ad illustrated by Norman Rockwell, General Electric Refrigerator, Listerine, and a Schaeffer’s Pen ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))