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1928-11 American Magazine Contents

1928/11 — Cover illustrated by Edmund Davenport

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

  • The Art of Making Friends by Edgar A. Guest and illustrated by Howard McCormick and Joseph Simont

  • The Elephant and the Donkey Take the Air by Graham McNamee with cartoons by Herbert Roth
  • After a Year in the Spotlight by William S. Dutton with drawing by David Robinson

  • Fair Ellen by Albert Payson Terhune includes full-page illustration of the blind Collie dog Fair Ellen by Charles Livingston Bull
  • Days of Drudgery Will Soon Be Over by Sherman Gwinn

  • Quit Picking On Yourself by William S. Sadler, MD with cartoons by F.G. Cooper
  • I Have the Most Interesting Job on Earth by E. Alexander Powell with decorations by Franklin Booth
  • The Skyscrapers of New York Rest on Breuchaud’s Genius by Rosa Strider Reilly with decorations by Sydney Fletcher
  • Are You Asking Too Much of Life? by S. Parkes Cadman, D.D.
  • Something for Nothing by Neil M. Clark
  • Queer Kicks About the Movies by Mary B. Mullett with cartoons by Rollin Kirby

  • When Tempests Lash the Cradle of the Deep by George W. Gray and illustrated by W.J. Aylward

  • How I lOst Money Trying to Get Rich
  • Alligator Tales by Herbert Ravenel Sass and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull

    • FICTION:

  • “The Bishop Murder Case” — Part 2 — by S.S. Van Dine
  • “The Suppressed Story of Mrs. Jackson” by Chester T. Crowell and illustrated by Joseph Simont

  • “Two I Love” by Dixie Wilson and illustrated by Stockton Mulford
  • “A Good Home” by Edith Barnard Delano and illustrated by Victor C. Anderson
  • “As the Twig Is Bent” by Octavus Roy Cohen and illustrated by George Brehm
  • “The Man Who Believed in God” by William Dudley Pelley and illustrated by F.C. Crooks

    • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Be Yourself! – A Poem by Arthur Guiterman
  • If You Ask Me: Hope Is One of Our Grandest Virtues by Albert Payson Terhune

    • Interesting People

  • Jesse Crawford – Article by Rosa Strider Reilly
  • Mrs. James L. Clark – Article by Esther Melbourne Knox
  • Dr. William T. Griggs – Article by Rupert E. West
  • William Boular – Article by R.P. Holland
  • Mrs. Charlotte Sculthorpe – Article by E.M. Wright
  • What I Don’t Like About the Movies – Prize Contest Announcement
  • The Thing in Nature That Thrills Me Most – Prize Awards
  • The Family’s Problems – “We’re Up Against It–We Young Folks Who Haven’t Money Enough to Get Married” by M.S.