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1919-10 The American Magazine Contents for October 1919

1919/10 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

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

  • Frontispiece: “Who’s Who in America” illustrated by Norman Price
  • Your Rent by Abram I. Elkus
  • “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!” by Irvin S. Cobb
  • “Isn’t That Just Like a Man!” by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • A Wonderful Dog With a Dual Nature — A story by Lewis Parsons and illustrated by F.E. Schoonover
  • Another Country Boy Rises to the Top in New York — An interview with Percy H. Johnston by B.C. Forbes
  • Percy H. Johnston – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Holworthy Hall – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • What Is Wasted Time? by Holworthy Hall
  • The Telegram That Johnny Didn’t See — A story by Frank Lapham and illustrated by Leslie Brown
  • Get Into the Selling End of Your Business by Irving T. Bush
  • “Pep” — A poem by Grace G. Bostwick
  • Who’s Who in America – A love story by Bertha Runkle and illustrated by Norman Price
  • How Animals Act in Aeroplanes by Henry Woodhouse
  • William Cooper Procter – Who Thinks Fast and Straight by Merle Crowell
  • How We Divide With Our Men by William Cooper Procter
  • William Cooper Procter – Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Minnie Maddern Fiske – Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • A Great Actress Talks About Life on Both Sides of the Footlights by Mary B. Mullett about Minnie Maddern Fiske
  • Human Beings – As Seen by a Waiter by William Kidd
  • Scattergood Matches Wits With a Pair of Sharpers — A story by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Paul Meylan
  • Prize Contest Announcement: What I Think Is the Matter–And What I Would Do About It
  • Ten Good Resolutions by Dr. Frank Crane
  • We Marry 15,000 Couples A Year by P.J. Scully
  • His Masterpiece — A story by P.J. Scully
  • The Bain Twins and the Detectative — A story by Elizabeth Irons Folsom and illustrated by Norman Price
  • What Prayer Has Done for Me by the author of “Finding God in Millersville”
  • Cheaters I Have Known
  • Sid Says: If you haven’t got one of these little machines you’re the human wonder of the world
  • What Shall It Profit a Man — A serialized novel (continued) by Bruce Barton and illustrated by Paul Stahr
  • Queer Things That People Swallow–And Still Live by Philip B. Hawk
  • The Swelled Head — Stories of men who have suffered from it — by Grantland Rice

    • Interesting People:

  • Lewis Nowlan by Edgar White
  • Frank C. Bancroft by Norman Beasley
  • Joseph C. Butler by William Bruce Hart
  • Mrs. Grace W. Lawson by Bertha Snow Adams
  • We All Should Realize That We Must Be Servants by C.L.
  • Is This Success? by L.N.
  • Prize Winners: The Lonesomest Time I Ever Had
  • How I Got A Better Job by N.T.
  • The Family’s Money by John J. Pulleyn