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."