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Argosy All-Story Weekly, 4 February 1922
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Argosy All-Story Weekly, 4 February 1922

· 4 February 1922

This issue of Argosy-Allstory Weekly (vol. CXL, no. 3, February 4, 1922) contains several features based on the OCR text, though the table of contents is largely illegible. A serial titled "The Fight of a Western Girl Against Great Odds" by Douglas Grant appears prominently, offering a domestic adventure or romance narrative. The magazine's fictional content is overshadowed in the surviving pages by extensive classified advertising for sales training, electrical engineering correspondence courses, patent medicines (Mellin's Food for infants), mail-order tailoring, and various get-rich-quick schemes typical of the period—raincoat distribution, hosiery sales, magic soap, and toilet article sets. The advertising suggests the magazine's readership was primarily working-class men seeking economic advancement. Beyond the Grant story's title, the interior narrative content remains obscured by OCR degradation.

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Date
4 February 1922
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