The Popular Magazine

Catalog Description: The Popular Magazine (c. 1918) This issue contains the complete novel "Dicky" by Henry C. Rowland and the opening installment of "Rimrock" by Dane Coolidge, a "big colorful western novel." Also featured is "The Brodie's Benefit" by Charles L. Van Loan, described as a "fight" story of humor. The issue includes short fiction by contributors including Henry Rucker, H.C. Wilver, Frederick Irving Anderson, H. Devere Stacpoole, Francis Metcalfe, Robert Welles Ritchie, D.M. Bower, and Dick Comer. The magazine represents typical pulp adventure and romance content of the WWI era, alongside period advertisements for consumer goods including Pabst Extract tonic, Victrola phonographs, and educational correspondence courses.