Popular Magazine, August 20, 1917

This issue of Popular Magazine (August 20, 1917) contains a diverse range of fiction and articles. The featured serial is B.M. Bower's complete novel Cabin Fever, about protagonists afflicted with cabin fever who resort to prospecting and tracking a runaway child. Roy Norton's four-part novel Esperanza (Part II) features "plot and counterplot aboard an honest schooner, with U-boats in the offing," reflecting wartime themes. Other notable stories include Theodore Goodridge Roberts' The Salmon Spearer (North Woods comedy), William Almon Wolff's Efficiency—Plus, and H. de Vere Stacpoole's The Bay of Pearls. The final installment of The Wolf Cub by Patrick and Terence Casey concludes a Spanish romance. The issue includes adventure, mystery, and humorous tales by contributing authors like "Sapper," Louis Esson, and others. A non-fiction article on women's trapshooting by Delaware champion Harriet D. Hammond accompanies the fiction content.