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1925-03 American Magazine Contents

1925/03 — Cover illustrated by Charles H. Towne

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

  • The Ten Great Discoveries by H.G. Wells
  • How Ed Wehr Became A Master Builder of Churches by William S. Dutton
  • What Indecision Has Cost Me
  • “Gossip” a story by Fannie Kilbourne and illustrated by T.K. Hanna
  • He Wouldn’t Specialize–So They Made Him President by George W. Gray
  • William E. Knox – A portrait in photogravure
  • Rockwell Kent – A portrait in photogravure
  • An Artist Who Works at the End of the World by John Monk Saunders is the thrilling story of Rockwell Kent
  • A Winter Interlude – Part 7 of Series “Adventures in Understanding” by David Grayson with illustrations by Thomas Fogarty
  • Visit the Doctor And He Won’t Have to Visit You by M.K. Wisehart
  • He Took a Toy and Made it the New Marvel of Navigation by Nina S. Purdy

  • Why We Have Gone Mad Over Crossword Puzzles by Allan Harding, includes three crossword puzzles
  • “Spare Parts” a story by Frank R. Adams and illustrated by Norman Price
  • “Roxy and His Gang” by Mary B. Mullett
  • Samuel L. Rothafel and His Family – A portrait group in photogravure
  • Harry R. Wellman – A portrait in photogravure
  • He Gave Up $10,000 A Year for a Teacher’s Job–And Happiness by Keene Sumner
  • “Ruins of Empire” a story by Chester T. Crowell and illustrated by Stockton Mulford
  • What He Learned on a Rocky Farm Made J.B. Efird Head of 37 Stores by W.O. Saunders
  • “Jen’s Girl” a story by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by Herman Pfeifer
  • How Wild Animals Are Picked and Trained for Circus Jobs by John T. Benson
  • Her Soul Goes Marching On by Sherman Gwinn
  • Adventures of a Small-Town Hotel Keeper by Ruth Dunbar
  • This Negro Butler Has Become Famous as a Photographer by Edith M. Lloyd is about King Ganaway
  • Why I Am Going Home by Charles A. David
  • “Rocking Moon” – a Novel – Continued – by Barrett Willoughby and illustrated by George Giguere

    • Interesting People:

  • Charles A. David – Article by James C. Derieux
  • Bernard C. Diekman – Article by Norman E. White
  • Mrs. Harry Lawless – Article by Mabel Travis Wood
  • The Best Loser I Ever Knew – Prize Winners
  • My Favorite Season – Prize Contest Announcement
  • The Family’s Money – How a Year in College Increased Our Income by Mrs. V.L.A.

    • Jello ad on inside back cover illustrated in color by Giro

    1923-07 American Magazine Contents

    1923/07 — Cover illustrated by Lou Mayer

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

  • Henry Ford Talks About His Mother by Edgar A. Guest
  • A Great Investment Expert Gives you His Personal Rules by Neil M. Clark
  • Joseph Randolph Nutt — A Portrait in Rotogravure
  • Lincoln Colcord — A Portrait in Rotogravure
  • I Was Born in a Storm at Sea by Lincoln Colcord
  • Justice in the Painted Hills — A Story by Alexander Hull and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • The Weaker Sex–Which? by Nina Wilcox Putnam
  • The Weaker Sex–Which? by H.I. Phillips
  • Managing Husbands Looks Easy, But– — A Story by Fannie Kilbourne and illustrated by T.K. Hanna
  • Only 18 Men Have Won the Carnegie Gold Medal for Courage by Stuart Mackenzie
  • An Office Boy Who Used His Head by Samuel Crowther
  • Frederick K. Rupprecht — A Portrait in Rotogravure
  • Charles Chic Sale — A Portrait in Rotogravure
  • Chic Sale Makes Us Laugh at Ourselves by Fred C. Kelly
  • You Never Can Tell — A Story by Matthew Benson and illustrated by C. Clyde Squires
  • Do You Know How to Get Along With Relatives? by Dr. Frank Crane
  • What in the World Would You Like Most to See? by Thane Wilson
  • New Stories of Abraham Lincoln by Elizabeth Irons Folsom
  • Jim Finds Out What His Mother Meant — A Story by Helen Nesbitt and illustrated by Ralph Pallen Coleman
  • Experiences of a Railway Conductor by A.B. Smith
  • Two Boys Who Never “Overlooked a Bet” by Merle Crowell
  • The Home-Coming — A Story by Bess Streeter Aldrich and illustrated by W.B. King
  • Things That Interest You Most in Your Newspaper by Bruce Barton
  • Sid Says: Start Your Mind Working on This
  • There Are Good and Bad Patients in Animal Hospitals by George Watson Little, D.V.M.
  • Wheels Within Wheels — Part of a Serialized Novel by Carolyn Wells and illustrated by Norman Price

    • Interesting People:

  • Albert T. Fischer by S.P. Halliday
  • Miss Nellie F. Cornell by George S. Brooks
  • Fortune Gallo by Paul Kempf
  • The Funniest Story I Ever Heard — 3 Prize Winners
  • Things I Wish My Relative Would Not Do — Prize Contest Announcement
  • The Family’s Money – 2 Articles

    • 1922-09 American Magazine Contents

    1922/09 — Cover design by Victor C. Anderson

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

  • “You Start in There Where You Leave Off Here” — An interview with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Life After Death — by Bruce Barton
  • The Thing That I Have Never Been Able to Explain — Contest Announcement
  • “Why I Think the Stage is Set for a Constructive Period in Business” by John Moody
  • “What I Think and Feel at 25” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald — Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • James Simpson — Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • “How an Ordinarily Stupid Boy Became a Great Merchant” by Neil M. Clark
  • “The Son Who Looked Down on His Father” — A Story by Geoerge Gilbert and illustrated by E.F. Ward
  • “Have You an Educated Heart?” by Gelett Burgess
  • “The Three Secrets of Getting on with Animals or with Human Beings” by Harry Whittier Frees
  • “Mother’s Thrilling Adventure With the Radio” — A Story by Edwin Balmer and illustrated by L. Evans Parcell
  • “Friends and Partners 48 Years Without a Single Break” by Mary B. Mullett
  • James McIntyre and Thomas Heath — Pictures in Alco Gravure
  • L.F. Loree — Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • “The Story of a Man Who Gets Things Done” by Merle Crowell
  • “Miss Dutton Knows What You Like to Eat” by Allison Gray
  • “Two Pigs” — A Story by Henry C. Rowland and illustrated by Paul Meylan
  • “Experiences of a Baggage Master” by Thane Wilson
  • “What God Hath Joined” — A Story by Bess Streeter Aldrich and illustrated by Frederic Anderson
  • “The X-Ray as a Life-Saver” by M.K. Wisehart and illustrated by Gerald Leake
  • “Do You Think Luck Is Against You?” by Michael Randall
  • “Mischief” — A Novel — Continued — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Gayle Hoskins
  • “The Joys and Sorrows of a Circus Fat Lady” by Allan Harding is about Carrie Holt with photo

    • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Clifford Milton Cubbison by Fred C. Kelly
  • Paul Shuey by Roy Jansen
  • Blanche Garrison by W. Mcd. Tait
  • Contest Winners for “What I Ow the Other Fellow”
  • “The Family’s Money” by R.P. Crawford

    • 1922-08 American Magazine Contents

    1922/08 — Cover design by Lou Mayer

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

  • My Job As a Father by Edgar A. Guest
  • One Big Fight After Another by Merle Crowell
  • Franklin Remington – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • He Learned His Letters at Twenty by Mary B. Mullett
  • “One Smart Pup” a dog story by Frank Richardson Pierce and illustrated by George Giguere
  • “Courage to Dive Off the Dock” by Bruce Barton

  • The Wonders of the Earth’s “Front Yard” by Keene Sumner
  • Sid Says: Your mansion in the sky is at 88 Any Street, Hometown
  • “Swinderella!” a love story by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by J. Simont
  • Five Ways to Make People Believe in You by Dr. C.E. Albright
  • Dr. Charles E. Albright – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford – A picture in Alco Gravure

  • How I Keep Running on “High” by Douglas Fairbanks
  • Seven Doctors of Union City, Indiana by Frank Hill
  • What I Don’t Like About My Town – Prize Contest Announcement
  • Mrs. Perkinson Sets a Trap by Paul Ellsworth Triem and illustrated by Harry Townsend

  • How Successful Lecturers Hold Their Audiences by Albert Sidney Gregg
  • Animals Have Brain Storms Just As Some Human Beings Do by Samuel A. Derieux
  • Get Into the Right Rut–Then Stay In It by Ellis Parker Butler
  • Funny About Wives! – A story by Esse B. Hamot and illustrated by Norman Price
  • Curious Ways In Which the Weather Affects Business by Henry J. Cox
  • The Story of a Great Chemist by M.K. Wisehart
  • Mischief – A novel, continued, by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Gayle Hoskins
  • Are You Afraid of the Water? by Allan Harding

    • Interesting People:

  • Samuel A. Derrieux by Mary B. Mullett
  • Mrs. Meta J. Erickson by Paul N. Wilson
  • John Caldwell by Margaret Jacques Rove
  • My Greatest Fear – Prize Winners
  • The Family’s Money – My Best Ideas Have All Been Born of Neccessity

    • 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

    • 1918-03 The American Magazine Contents for March 1918

    1918/03 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

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

  • Frontispiece: Illustrating “Julie–the Unconquerable” by Paul Julien Meylan
  • Why We Come Smiling Out of Hell by Private Peat
  • Sid Says: Moths don’t detroy treasures like these
  • Private Peat – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • William Dudley Pelley – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Wanted–A Younger and More Practical Man — A story by William Dudley Pelley and illustrated by F.M. Gruger
  • Not for the Genius-But for the Average Man by Frederick W. Taylor with a note by Frank Barkley Copley
  • Peter Breaks Through His Shell – A love story by Holworthy Hall and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • How I Cured Myself of Being too Sensitive with illustration by Lejaren a Hiller
  • Why I Believe in Deciding Things Quickly by Al H. Woods
  • Elsie Ferguson – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • E.P. Ripley – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Ripley’s Recipe: “Get a good wife–and win men’s loyalty” by B.C. Forbes
  • Jule–The Unconquerable — A love story by Howard Markle Hoke and illustrated by Paul Julien Meylan
  • The Joy of the Job by Edna Ferber
  • The Making of George Groton – A novel (continued) by Bruce Barton with illustrations by Paul Stahr
  • The Chances of Getting Killed or Hurt in This War by Mary B. Mullett
  • Williams Sees Herself as Others Saw Her — A story by Bertha A. Rich
  • When My Boy Comes – What a prospective father has been through since war was declared

    • Interesting People:

  • Clem Yore by Jack Lait
  • George H. Beach by N.B. Beasley
  • Emily Griffith by Marie La Due
  • William S. Olive by S.R. Winters
  • Prize Contest Announcement: The Most Tender, Gentle Thing I Ever Knew a Human Being to Do
  • Prize winners: What I Would Do If I Had My Life to Live Over
  • The Family’s Money by Myron T. Herrick

    • 1918-02 The American Magazine Contents for February 1918

    1918/02 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

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

  • Frontispiece: Illustrating “New York and Return” by Clarence F. Underwood
  • The Sword of Jesus by Harold Bell Wright is the first article by Wright written for any magazine
  • Harold Bell Wright – A Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • The Mayo Brothers – Portraits in Alco Gravure
  • “Dr. Will and Dr. Charlie” – The Story of the Mayo Brothers by Mary B. Mullett
  • New York and Return – A Love Story by Holworthy Hall and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • What I Have Learned from Abe Lincoln – Illustration by Paul Meylan
  • Bud Jones–Small Advertiser — A Story by William Dudley Pelley and illustrated by Norman Price
  • Future Life Contest — Top 5 Prizewinners
  • Edison – The “Original Man from Missouri” — by William Maxwell with a latter from Arthur Brisbane, illustrated with a photograph
  • Thomas A. Edison – Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Ina Claire – Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Plays Worth Seeing This Winter by Walter prichard Eaton
  • A Kind of Dog-Gone Christian – A Story by Arthur Preston Hankins with illustrations by F.E. Schoonover
  • The Making of George Groton — A novel by Bruce Barton and illustrated by Paul Stahr
  • Sid Says: If you aren’t fighting–are you worth fighting for?
  • Abner Larned, Who Knows How to Sell Things by N.B. Beasley
  • The Crisis in Room 25 – A dog story by Samuel A. Derieux with illustrations by J. Knowles Hare

    • Interesting People:

  • May Peterson by Betty Shannon
  • Frank Brown by Carl Gregg Doney
  • Leo Feist by E.M. Wickes
  • Charles H. Purdy by Bertha Snow Adams
  • Prize Contest Announcement: Why I Like My Job
  • Mistaken For My Wife’s Son by George H. McClellan
  • Getting Ahead
  • The Family’s Money

    • 1918-01 The American Magazine Contents for January 1918

    1918/01 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

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

  • Frontispiece: Illustrating “Aunt Julia” by M. Leone Bracker
  • Aunt Julia – The story of a thoroughbred by William Dudley Pelley and illustrated by M. Leone Bracker
  • What the War Has Done To Me by Harry Lauder
  • Omelets for Violets – A Fair Trade — a story by Ida M. Evans and illustrated by F. Graham Cootes
  • Some of My Best Friends Are– by Montague Glass, the experiences of a Jew among Gentiles
  • Montague Glass – As I Know Him by Barney Bernard
  • Mr. and Mrs. Montague Glass – A Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Frank A. Vanderslip – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • How We Decide When to Raise a Man’s Salary by B.C. Forbes
  • Through Clearing — A love story by Holworthy Hall and illustrated by R.M. Crosby
  • What to Do With a Bad Habit by James J. Walsh, M.D.
  • Chicago – The Glavor of the Cities Series by Jack Lait
  • The Quest of Gloria Harney — A story by Alexander Hull and illustrated by W.M. Berger
  • The Comic Side of Trouble by Bert Williams
  • Bert Williams – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Mrs. Bertha A. Rich – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • The Business Woman and the Powder puff by Bertha A. Rich
  • Prize Winning Stories: What I Have Seen Booze Do
  • Prize Contest Announcment: What I Am Getting Out of the War
  • The Making of George Groton — A novel by Bruce Barton and illustrated by Paul Stahr
  • Sid Says: What goes on in your head is older than you think

    • Interesting People:

  • Ralph A. Hayes by Fred C. Kelly
  • William F. Nevitt by Albert Sidney Gregg
  • Gay Zenola MacLaren by May Stanley
  • The Rev. F.R. Wedge by Lloyd Alan Lehbras
  • The Family’s Money

    • 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

    • 1915-06 American Magazine Contents

    1915/06 — Cover design by Leon M. Gordon

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

  • The Son and Father Movement by Ellis Parker Butler with color frontispiece “Trying to Be a Boy Again” painted by Leon M. Gordon
  • The Bird House Man — Part 1 — by Walter Prichard Eaton and illustrated by Hanson Booth
  • What It Means to Be a Jew by A Successful One
  • Little Mother by Sarah N. Cleghorn
  • Tyrus: The Greatest of Them All by Ring W. Lardner with 4 photographs, including one full-pager, of article subject Ty Cobb
  • Their Second Meeting by Rebecca Hooper Eastman and illustrated by David Robinson
  • The Theater of War by Ernest Poole with portrait of Poole
  • Hempfield — A Novel picking up from Chapter 14 — by David Grayson and illustrated by Thomas Fogarty
  • Sticking to the Old Ways: The Golden Rule in Business by Ida M. Tarbell
  • A Cold in the Head by Edwin L. Sabin and illustrated by F. Stothmann
  • Good-by Cap Horn! by Lincoln Colcord
  • The Ambitions of an Actress by Margaret Anglin with portrait of Anglin
  • Cupid vs. Geography — Part 2 by George Fitch and illustrated by J.H. Gardner Soper

    • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Josephine Clifford McCrackin by Bertha Snow Adams
  • Olaf Swenson by Burt M. McConnell
  • Moses Alexander by Chester C. Housh
  • Nels Johnson by Leonard L. Cline
  • Carl E. Akeley by Donald Wilhelm
  • How Women Voted in Chicago by Hugh S. Fullerton
  • The Meanest Thing I Ever Did — Prize Contest
  • Prize Contest Annoucement
  • Says the Cynic
  • Just Boys by Frances L. Garside
  • I Should Say So: His Wife Knew About It by James Montgomery Flagg

    • 1914-10 American Magazine Contents

    1914/10 — Cover design by Mary Greene Blumenschein

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

  • The Editor’s Table
  • “Dorothy’s Day to Remember” — the first story of a new series — by Maravene Thompson and illustrated by Mary Greene Blumenschein
  • “The Golden Rule in Business” — Author’s Introduction to a New Series of Articles — by Ida M. Tarbell
  • “Taming My Rebel Soul” — An Amazing Autobiography — Illustrated by Dalton Stevens
  • “The Homeburg Telephone Exchange” by George Fitch and illustrated by Albert Levering
  • “Getting Back on Your Game” by Jerome D. Travers, four-time Amateur Golf Champion of the United States, and illustrated by C.M. Relyea
  • Boston Blackie Stories — “A Thief’s Daughter” by No. 6666 and illustrated by N.C. Wyeth — One full-page Wyeth illustration to open the story, one other just less than a full page. Both illustrations in black & white.
  • “Bamby” — Conclusion — a Novel by Marjorie Benton Cooke
  • “The Master Stroke” by Philip Curtiss and illustrated by W.M. Berger
  • The Theater — A New Epoch in the Movies by Walter Prichard Eaton — Illustrated with Full-Page Portraits of: Hazel Dawn – Mary Pickford – Bertha Kalisch – Pauline Frederick
  • “Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich” — The Yahi-Bahi Oriental Society of Mrs. Rasselyer-Brown by Stephen Leacock and illustrated by F. Strothmann
  • “Seeing America” — A Philosopher in Congress by Ray Stannard Baker

    • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Irving Berlin by Ralph brock Pemberton
  • Leon Ray Livingston by Dale H. Carnagey
  • S.J. Coogler by Bruce Barton
  • Diana Hirschler by Dana Gatlin
  • Merle Hyer by B.A. Fowler
  • Prize Announcement and Results
  • Pity the Women! by Mollie Best
  • Office Chat
  • From Abe Martin’s Almanack by Kim Hubbard
  • I Should Say So — A Picnic — by James Montgomery Flagg with illustrations by the author
  • Burgess Unabridged by Gelett Burgess

    • 1914-04 American Magazine Contents

    1914/04 — Cover design “Bamby” by Mary Greene Blumenschein

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

  • The Editor’s Table
  • “Bamby” – A New Serial, Part 1 — by Marjorie Benton Cooke and illustrated by Mary Greene Blumenschein
  • They Who Knock At Our Gates – Part 2: Judges in the Gate by Mary Antin and illustrated by Joseph Stella
  • An Adventure in Education by Albert Jay Nock
  • “Dictated But Not Read” a McChesney Story by Edna Ferber and illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg
  • “In the Metropolitan Museum” – A Poem by Claire Wallace Flynn
  • “A Substitute for Nellie” a story by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Henry J. Soulen
  • “The Young Lord Prynne” a story by Philip Curtiss and illustrated by David Robinson
  • “The Cavalier Poet’s Farewell” a spoem by Harry Kemp
  • The Theater – The Slump in the Theatrical Business by Walter Prichard Eaton, includes full page photo of Elsie Ferguson
  • American Gambling and Gamblers – Gambling With Father’s Money – by Hugh S. Fullerton
  • “Doting Fathers” – A Golf Story – by Brand Whitlock and illustrated by Martin Justice
  • Seeing America — Part 3: The New Pioneering and Its Heroes by Ray Stannard Baker

    • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • John Moody by F.B. Copley
  • Mary Pickford by Frederick James Smith, with full page including small pic of Pickford in middle surrounded by 15 photos of her in movie scenes
  • Poem to Mary Pickford by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
  • “F.P.A.” (Franklin P. Adams) by Bert Leston Taylor
  • Bert Leston Taylor by Franklin P. Adams
  • E.A. Thompson by Ray Stannard Baker
  • More “Finger Test of Literature” by De Grofft Thurlow
  • Skimpy
  • What I Should Do With One Million Dollars – Top 3 Prize-Winning Essays
  • A Modern Cinderella by Henrietta J. Lund
  • The Woman’s Law – Conclusion – by Maravene Thompson
  • Out of the Editor’s Mail
  • I Should Say So – The Care and Feeding of Husbands – by James Montgomery Flagg, illustrations by the author
  • Prize Contest Announcement

    • 1914-03 American Magazine Contents

    1914/03 — Cover design by Olive Rush

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

  • The Editor’s Table
  • “They Who Knock At Our Gates: Part 1 – The Law of the Fathers” by Mary Antin and illustrated by Franklin Booth
  • “The Turtle Man” a story by Richard Washburn Child and illustrated by The Reeses
  • The Soul’s Winning Fight With Science by H. Addington Bruce and illustrated by H.D. Welsh
  • “A Triangle Within a Triangle” a story by Edgar Allen Forbes and illustrated by Henry J. Soulen
  • The Theater – The Best Plays of the Season – by Walter Prichard Eaton
  • “The End of the Controversy” a story by James D. Corrothers and illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover
  • “The Promise of Bread” a poem by C.L. Edson
  • “Without Benefit of Busting” a story by Rufus Steele and illustrated by P.V.E. Ivory
  • The Autobiography of a Stingy Man
  • “The Marching” a poem by Mary Carolyn Davies
  • Seeing America: The New Chicago and Its Progressive People by Ray Stannard Baker
  • Why Not Send Goethals and His Veterans?
  • Education Made Aggreeable by Stephen Leacock and illustrated by J. Norman Lynd
  • American Gambling and Gamblers — Part 2 — by Hugh S. Fullerton

    • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Albert S. Osborn by John A. Moroso
  • Charles W. Garfield by Ida M. Tarbell
  • Mary Antin by Ellery Sedgwick
  • Alexander C. Humphreys by Frank A. Vanderlip
  • W.J. Lampton
  • What I Am Most Afraid Of – Top 3 Prize-Winning Essays
  • Prize Contest Announcement
  • How A Town Converted By-Paths Into Good Roads and Doubled Its Trade Territory by H.C Beard
  • What Drink Did to One Man

  • An Old Favorite With a New Name
  • The Woman’s Law – Part 5, by Maravene Thompson
  • Office Chat
  • I Should Say So – Why There Is Nothing Funny In The American Magazine This Month – by James Montgomery Flagg, illustrations by the author

    • 1914-02 American Magazine Contents

    1914/02 — Cover design by Penrhyn Stanlaws

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

  • The Editor’s Table
  • “The Majesty of the Law” by Finley Peter Dunne and illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover

  • “Personality Plus” – A McChesney Story — by Edna Ferber and illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg
  • Youth by Samuel McCoy
  • Finger Test of Literature by J. Breckenridge Ellis
  • “Good-by” a story by Kate Jordan and illustrated by David Robinson
  • American Gambling and Gamblers by Hugh S. Fullerton with illustrations by Jay Hambidge
  • “Hum-Dram, A Slice From an Everyday Life” — Conclusion — by Alfred Ollivant and illustrated by Monte Crews

  • The Homeburg Weekly Democrat by George Fitch with illustrations by Irma Deremeaux
  • The Theater – What Is a Moral Play? – by Walter Prichard Eaton

  • “In Passing” a story by Samuel Merwin and illustrated by Jay Hambidge
  • Seeing America by Ray Stannard Baker

  • “The Woman’s Law” — Part 4 — by Maravene Thompson and illustrated by Walter Dean Goldbock

    • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Peter M. Hoffman by William L. Chenery
  • “Al” Ringling by Orin Crooker
  • James Farrell by Arundel Cotter
  • Miss Anna C. Tyler by Sarah Comstock
  • Edwin F. Brown by Robert H. Moulton
  • A Poor Man’s Bank by Walter Prichard Eaton
  • Celebrities I Have Not Met by Oliver Herford
  • Two Glimpses of Ty Cobb – a) At the Bat and On the Bases by B.F. Leventhal ; b) In the Field by Joseph A. Sexton
  • Out of the Editor’s Mail
  • What Is a Criminal? – Top 3 Prize-Winning Essays
  • Country Town Sayings by E.W. Howe
  • Prize Contest Announcement
  • Abe Martin on Advertising by Kin Hubbard
  • A $20 Check Without an Owner
  • I Should Say So – Visiting – by James Montgomery Flagg, illustrations by the author