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1917-10 The American Magazine Contents for October 1917

1917/10 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

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

  • Frontispiece: Illustrating “771” by Clarence F. Underwood
  • My Creed – The way to happiness as I have found it – by Mary Roberts Rinehart

  • Mary Roberts Rinehart as She Appears to Bob Davis by Robert H. Davis
  • The Importance of Mr. and Mrs. Dinsmore — A Story by John Barton Oxford and illustrated by F. Graham Cootes

  • Dropping the Easy Job and Tackling the Tough One by H. Thompson Rich
  • Henry L. Doherty – Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Mary Roberts Rinehart – A Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Foolish Things The War May Stop by Fred C. Kelly

  • What Salary Do You Need to Make You Happy?
  • “771” – The story of a Cinderella without a Prince – by Mabel Nelson Thurston and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • How I Advertised Myself into a Better Job
  • The Four Square Man — a story by William Dudley Pelley and illustrated by Douglas Duer
  • A Clown Who Build a Skyscraper with Laughs by Fred Stone
  • Small inset as part of Fred Stone article: Gentleman Jim Corbett’s Tribute to Fred Stone by James J. Corbett
  • Fred Stone – A Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Arthur Train – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Have You a Friend Who is a Lawyer by Arthur Train
  • A Severe Attack of the Gerties A Baseball Story by Hugh S. Fullerton and illustrated by W.E. Hill
  • Sid Says: It’s the encores people call for that make lying difficult
  • Places of Retirement by David Grayson and illustrated by Thomas Fogarty
  • Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber and illustrated by M. Leone Bracker

    • Interesting People:

  • Frank W. Woolworth by Ada Patterson
  • Aaron I. Dotey by Alfred Grunberg
  • Mrs. Clara Pressler by W.W. Major
  • Henry B. Gentry by Don Herold

  • Prize Contest Winners: The Man Who Helped Me Most and What He Taught Me
  • Some Windows That Sell Goods by Dale Carnegie
  • Letter froma Reader by mary Dana-Hicks Prang
  • Suggestions to Old Folks
  • Are You Using Your Wife’s Business Sense? by Alfred Grunberg
  • Bad Teeth vs. Good Health by Edwin F. Bowers, M.D.
  • Prize Contest Announcement: What I Have Seen Booze Do
  • The Family’s Money
  • Getting Ahead by Henry C. Walker