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Argosy All-Story Weekly, April 7, 1928

· April 7, 1928

Argosy All-Story Weekly, April 7, 1928
This April 7, 1928 issue of *Argosy-Allstory Weekly* contains six complete or serial stories across adventure, romance, and Western genres. "Damming Hairpin Cañon" by C. C. Waddell (part one of four) concerns crooked operations in dam construction. "The Respectable Maniacs" by Richard F. Merrifield is a novelette about married life during the jazz age. Morgan Mansfield's "His Service to Folly" (part two of four) features red-blooded Caribbean adventures. "The Whistling Waddy Warbles On" by D. B. Hobart presents one man against outlaw bandits, while Kenneth Perkins' "Gold" (part four) is set in 1849 San Francisco. "Restless Guns" (part two, author uncredited) follows two inexperienced "tenderfeet." Additional stories include pieces on subway civility by Laurance M. Hare and murder investigation on the mesa. The issue also features spring poems and articles alongside extensive period advertising for sales opportunities and consumer products.

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