The Popular Magazine, Vol. 37, No. 2

This July 7, 1915 issue of *The Popular Magazine* contains eight major stories. The featured novel "Unlucky Men" by George Washington Ogden depicts two men—father and son—fighting misfortune in Oklahoma oil fields where a city springs up overnight among men united by one obsession: Oil. "Inside the Lines," a three-part story by Earl Derr Biggers and Reels Robert Welles Ritchie, novelizes a recent theatrical hit described as equal to "Secret Service"—a spy story. Other fiction includes "All on the Ground Floor" by Holworthy Hall, concerning an ambitious $300,000 investment; "Bat Shy" by Foxhall Williams, about a baseball star traumatized by being hit; "For Charity" by Wilbur Hall, an auto-racing story; "The Gambler" by David A. Curtis; "Can't" McCue" by H. H. Knibbs; Albert Payson Terhune's four-part "The Man Who Could Do Everything"; and "An Even Break" by H. C. Witwer, featuring a mysterious diamond. The issue includes an editorial section titled "Caught in the Net."