Adventure Magazine Cover

Adventure Magazine, July 10, 1922 This issue features fiction by Talbot Mundy, George E. Holt, W. C. Tuttle, Clyde B. Hough, Hugh Pendexter, and others. The visible story fragment, titled "And Now Their Cashier Carries a Colt," concerns payroll robbery: cashier John Morse loses Keith & Company's twenty-five-hundred-dollar payroll to thieves en route from the bank. After Morse's failure to prevent the theft, Mr. Keith directs him to purchase a revolver for future protection while carrying the payroll. The piece functions primarily as an advertisement for Colt revolvers. A secondary motivational narrative, "The Warning of the Desert," follows Bill Andrews, an underpaid working man inspired by a cautionary phrase ("On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones...") to pursue correspondence study through International Schools, ultimately earning a salary increase and promotion. The issue also contains numerous advertisements for various mail-order enterprises, including Hawaiian guitar instruction, jewelry, hair restoration, and vocational training.