The Wide World, The Magazine for Men, October [Oct.] 1916, Vol. 37, No. 222: How We Foiled "U 39"

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

Edité par The International News Company, New York, 1916

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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.

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• Titre: The Wide World, The Magazine for Men, October [Oct.] 1916, Vol. 37, No. 222: How We Foiled "U 39"
• Éditeur: The International News Company, New York
• Date de parution: 1916
• Reliure: Single Issue Magazine
• Illustrateur: Gilbert, A.; Pitcher, N. Sotheby; Montford, C.E.; Somerfield, Thomas; Evison, G.H.; Prater, Ernest; Montford, C.E.; Gillett, F.
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
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