Adventure Magazine Cover

# Museum Catalog Note: Adventure Magazine, October 30, 1923 Issue

This issue of Adventure presents fiction across multiple genres and settings. "The Thirty Gang" by Arthur O. Friel is a complete novelette set in Venezuela, involving mysterious figures and balata traders. "The Seventh Man" by William Byron Mowery is set in Labrador and concerns a murder. "Zukoff Fits a Key" by William Harper Dean is a New York-based story told through jury room proceedings. W. Townend contributes the first installment of the serial "The Tramp," a three-part story set at sea featuring cargo and intrigue. The issue also includes "Trade Jargon" by Clarence Hutchinson covering Indian dialects, "Bill Adams Says" by Bill Adams under the "Slants on Life" column, and Faunce Rochester's piece on bears in the Old West titled "John Bull" Oh Bears." The magazine includes numerous advertisements for correspondence courses in electricity and detective work, book offers featuring Sax Rohmer's Oriental mystery fiction, and subscription sales opportunities.