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1931-01 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1931/01 — Contents as follows:

  • The Young Doctor in New York by Lewis G. Arrowsmith
  • Stephen A. Douglas by Edgar Lee Masters
  • Your Home-Town Paper: Paris by Whit Burnett & Martha Foley
  • Editorials
  • Free Books by Matthew Paxton
  • Notes on Marriage by William F. Ogburn
  • School Days in the Gumbo by H.H. Lewis
  • Americana
  • Shakespeare’s New England by Dane Yorke
  • On Women as Housekeepers by Ralph Milne Farley

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The Horizontal Challenges the Vertical by William E. Willner
  • The American Language Fights for Recognition in Moscow by Eli B. Jacobson
  • The Chiropractor by Albert Lindsay O’Neale, Jr.
  • Faith Cures for Unemployment by Abraham Epstein
  • A Knight Errant in Maine by Eric Sonnichsen

    • Music:

  • Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: A Record by Alfred V. Frankenstein
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes

    • 1928-04 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1928/04 — Contents as follows:

  • Notes of a Prohibition Agent by Homer Turner
  • Reflections of a Bootician by C.G. John
  • The Troubled Trolley by Raymond S. Tompkins
  • Editorial
  • Frank Norris, or, Up from Culture by Charles Caldwell Dobie
  • Jungle Justice by Jim Tully
  • Americana
  • Hymn to Satan by Benjamin DeCasseres
  • The Dean of Music by Karl Andrist

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Native Architecture in Southern California by Paul Edgar Murphy
  • Machine-Guns by An Army Officer
  • Falling Leaves on Yankee Hilltops by Walter Prichard Eaton
  • Raising the Big Wind by R.J. Prendergast
  • I Face a Jury of My Peers by Ernest Booth
  • Marsh Duck by Idwal Jones
  • The Anthropological Attitude by A.L. Kroeber

  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Index to Volume XIII
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes
  • Camel Cigarettes illustrated ad on back cover

    • 1931-09 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1931/09 — Contents as follows:

  • The Worst American State: Part I — by Charles Angoff & H.L. Mencken
  • Ohio Town by Hugh Hanley
  • A City Editor’s Testament by Stanley Walker
  • Editorials
  • American Folk Art by Holger Cahill
  • Laura Jean Libbey by Louis Gold
  • The Assassination of McKinley by Emma Goldman
  • Americana
  • A Jeeter Wedding by Dorothy Thomas
  • Yorktown, 1781 by Hoffman Nickerson

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The Inventiveness of the American Indian by Robert H. Lowie
  • Continents Adrift by H.E. McKinstry
  • A Kentucky Crusader by Edwin Rogers Embree
  • Rio Grande — Part V. The Common Folk of the Valley by Harvey Fergusson

    • Music:

  • The Uses of Amateur Playing by Isaac Goldberg
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes
  • Lucky Strikes ad on back cover features Hazel Bofinger

    • 1933-03 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1933/03 — Contents as follows:

  • What Is Going On in the World
  • Paradise by James M. Cain –from the page about the authors: “James M. Cain is a former newspaper man, now living in California.” This story was published prior to Cain’s famous novels “The Postman Always Rings Twice” (1934) and “Double Indemnity” (1936)
  • Big Leaguer by John Fante –from the page about the authors: “John Fante was born in Denver, Colo., the son of an Italian father and an American-born mother. He studied at Regis College, a Jesuit institution at Denver, and the University of Colorado. He is now living in California”
  • Americana
  • Rehearsing for Baseball by Arthur Mann
  • The Facts of Life by Samuel Grafton
  • The Feud in the Rotunda by Albert Halper
  • Salvation for the Select by Frank Devine
  • Old Ladies by Margaret Widdemer

    • The State of the Union:

  • Getting Rid of the Mexican by Carey McWilliams
  • Super-Moses by Oliver Jenkins
  • A City That Might Have Been by George Seibel
  • The Clown as Lawmaker by William Seagle
  • In Praise of Islands by Frances Front
  • Prison Stupor by Victor Folke Newlson

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Victor Herbert & Rubato by Gustav Klemm
  • The Potato by Norman Taylor
  • The Catholics in the Revolution by Theodore Maynard
  • Wine from American Grapes by Philip Wagner
  • Fantasia Impromptu by Bejamin DeCasseres
  • Something Starting Over by Thomas Hornsby Ferril
  • The Soap-Box
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Lucky Strike ad on the back cover is illustrated by Penrhyn Stanlaws

    • 1933-05 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1933/05 — Contents as follows:

  • What Is Going On in the World
  • America: 1933 by Eugene Davidson
  • The Old Guard Dies by William C. Murphy, Jr.
  • The Death-Rate in the Depression by W.W. Bauer
  • They Call Me a Monk by Brother Cajetan
  • Americana
  • Lest We Forget by M.B. Hamilton
  • The Man Who Looked Like Himself by Erskine Caldwell
  • The Americans in Ethiopia by Jerrold Robbins
  • The Siren by Jack Conroy

    • The State of the Union:

  • The Mississippi Swallows another Billion by John Alroy
  • A Gentleman in Politics by Isidor Feinstein
  • The Carillon Invades America by F.R. Webber

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Capital Punishment by Lethal Gas by Anthony M. Turano
  • Tidal Waves by Charles Fitzhugh Talman
  • Two Poems by Muna Lee
  • No-Account Accounting by Clifford B. Reeves
  • Magin in American Tattooing by Albert Parry
  • Censored by Lowry Charles Wimberly
  • The Soap-Box
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Note

    • 1933-08 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1933/08 — Contents as follows:

  • Lowell of Harvard by Charles Angoff
  • Jack Dempsey by Jim Tully
  • It Was Like This by Stanley Walker
  • Blessed Event in Vienna by Martha Foley
  • Americana
  • There Is a Land by Francis Hackett
  • Secret Saint by Alice Mulhern
  • On the Causes of Crime by Sheldon Glueck
  • The Pedagogues Hunt Indians by Flora Warren Seymour
  • Cadet Edgar Allan Poe, USA by Carlisle Allan
  • Twilight of a Golden Age by Ernest L. Mayer

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The Mexican Cuisine by Marion Lay
  • New Antidotes for Some Old Poisons by Creston Collins
  • North Star by Bernice Kenyon
  • Notes on American Yiddish by George Wolfe
  • Childhood in a Mormon House by Louis W. Larsen
  • Pilgrim’s Progress by George Milburn
  • The Soap-Box
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Index to Volume XXIX
  • Check List of New Books

    • 1934-06 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1934/06 — Contents as follows:

  • The Miners Fight Their Leaders by Tom Tippett
  • Taxation in America and England by Harold M. Groves
  • Flying Is Still Dangerous by Kenneth Brown Collings
  • Uncle Palli by Hilda Perini
  • Who Gets the Milk Profits? by Benjamin Horace Hibbard
  • I Recover from Sleeping Sickness by Eleanore Carey
  • Godfather to American Corruption by Esther Strachey
  • Playboy (to Alice B. Toklas) by Thomas Beer
  • Fascism in American Law by Carey McWilliams
  • The Home Medicine Chest by Jerome W. Ephraim
  • Hard Times Singing by Lowry C. Wimberly
  • The Political System of Russia by G.D.H. & Margaret Cole
  • The Inside of the Gambling Industry by Joe Bigelow
  • Aryans and Non-Aryans by Franz Boas
  • The Musician Starves by Grace Overmyer
  • Scab! by Albert Halper

    • The State of the Union:

  • War Comes to the Workingmen’s Paradise by T.L. Morton
  • Georgia at Last Has a Good Governor by Peyre Gaillard

    • The Library:

  • The Lower Depths of Journalism by Charles Angoff
  • Ex Nihilo Nihil by Charles Angoff
  • The Golden Age of Opera by W.J. Henderson
  • A Liberty Looks at Revolution by Benjamin Stolberg
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Correspondence

    • 1927-11 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1927/11 — Contents as follows:

  • The Biology of Superiority by Raymond Pearl
  • Egypt by W.A.S. Douglas
  • Tom Heflin by John W. Owens
  • A German Grandfather by Ruth Suckow
  • Editorial
  • Elegy in a Malty Mood by Benjamin DeCasseres
  • Officers of the Court by Horace A. Davis
  • Americana
  • A Texas Chain-Gang by Ernest Booth

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Heat or Heredity? by Emmett Reid Dunn
  • The Yugoslav Speech in America by Louis Adamic
  • Body’s Breviary by Joseph Warren Beach
  • The Gods Confused by Oliver H.P. Garrett
  • Deadwood the Dreadful by Duncan Aikman
  • Churches in the Moronic Mode by F.R. Webber
  • Flat Tires on the Farm by W.G. Clugston
  • Days of Wickedness by Herbert Asbury

  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes
  • Lucky Strikes Cigarettes illustrated ad on back cover

    • 1927-10 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1927/10 — Contents as follows:

  • Red, White and Blue by James M. Cain
  • A Man of Heart by Arthur Strawn
  • Bull Horrors by Jim Tully
  • Evviva San Francisco by Idwal Jones
  • Editorial
  • Notes for a Comic History by George Seibel
  • Princes of the Press by Raymond S. Tompkins
  • The Braodway Mind by Benjamin De Casseres
  • Americana
  • The Passing of Vaudeville by W.A.S. Douglas
  • Under Which Flag? by Frdeerick Bausman

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The Decline of Illustration by Thomas Craven
  • Quarter Tones–And Less by Grace Overmyer
  • Good Pals by Ruth Suckow
  • Lady Back-Slappers by Margaret Cobb
  • Footnote to the War of 1812 by Julius W. Pratt
  • Two-Head Doctors

  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes
  • Camel Cigarettes illustrated ad on back cover