Author: PATTERSON, WALTER G.; READ, H.O.; HARDEMAN, F.E.; SKELTON, JAS.; RINEHART, MARY ROBERTS; DUNDAS, GRACE; FLETCHER, ALFRED C.B.; LEES, FREDERIC; FREEMAN, LEWIS R.; LUCAS, M.R.; LEES, G. FREDERIC
Title: The Wide World, the Magazine for Men, October [Oct. ] 1916, Vol. 37, No. 222: How We Foiled "U 39"
Description: New York: The International News Company, 1916. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. F.. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: In the Grip of the "Hip Sings" - Part II - an American businessman is also secretly a member of a lawless tong/Chinese secret society; How We Foiled "U 39" - H.O. Read, Late First Officer S.S. "Anglo-Californian", a horse transport, explains what happened when his vessel was attacked by a German U-Boat; Our Wanderings in Northern Africa - another of the popular "Penelope" articles covers Tunis, Kairouan, and Algeria (includes photo of Tunisian Jewesses in towering head-dresses intended to make them, all fat to enhance their marriage prospects); The Trapped Diver - Charles Margerison recounts his terrible underwater predicament working for the City of Toronto's Department of Works; On the Trail in Wonderland - Part I - Mary Roberts Rinehart explores the new Glacier Park in North-Western Montana; The Old Man of Tregennon Lodge - a very remarkable ghost story from Cornwall, England; From Job to Job Around the World - Part VIII - two young Americans begin broke in London but soon Mr. Fletcher travels to Norway under contract to do Arctic coal-mining; A Boy Hero of the Midi - translated from the diary of Eugene Escloupie, a 14-year-old French boy who smuggled himself to the front and took part in some hot WWI fighting; Our Fijian Field-Day - three young white men compete in sports contests against sport-loving Fijians (with nice photos); The Great Wire Mystery - copper wire was constantly stolen from South-East Pennsylvania railroad, telegraph, and telephone companies until the elusive culprit was caught; Fishing With Spades and Ploughs for the sand eel on the Normandy coast; and more. pp. 9 [ads], [2], 484-576, 10-16 [ads]. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wide World Magazine, October 1916, F. Parslow, J.P. West, tongs, Chinese secret societies, U 39, H.O. Read, S.S. Anglo-Californian, horse transport, U-Boats, World War 1914-1918, Northern Africa, Penelope, Tunis, Kairouan, Algeria, Jews - Tunisia, Deep S. Very Good .

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