Pulp Fiction, 1941 · page 114 of 116
10-Story Detective, March 1941 — page 114: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: 10-Story Detective This page from a pulp-fiction magazine contains story prose alongside a full-page advertisement. The narrative text, appearing on the right side, concludes a crime story involving characters named Clark, Doris Adair, and Slug Nixon—apparently resolving a plot where Clark has been shot but recovers, while winning Doris's heart, who will now leave the cast for a honeymoon. The left side features a large employment recruitment advertisement for the Interstate Home Study Bureau, promoting government job training (postal clerks, mail carriers, inspectors) with salaries of $1,260–$2,600 annually and a mail-in coupon for interested readers.
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in WANTED 1,000 MEN & WOMEN WE WILL PREPARE YOU FOR A + LIFETIME x GOVERNMENT JOS Salaries $1260-$2600 Per Year WO LAYOFFS! PENSIONS! VACATIONS WITH PAY! te RAILWAY POSTAL CLERKS %& CITY MAIL CARRIERS POST OFFICE CLERKS RURAL MAIL CARRIERS PATROL INSPECTORS IMMIGRATION INSPECTORS INSPECTORS OF CUSTOMS STENOGRAPHERS-TYPISTS Pay for Course Only After You Are Appointed & Working Se sure are we that our simplified Interstate Home Study Courses of coaching will result in your passing the exami- nations and being appointed that ‘we are willing to accept your enroliment on the following basis. The price of our complete 10-week lesson course is $30 plus §3 Examiners’ Fee. We are willing to give you any course with the understanding that you are to pay for the Course ONLY AFTER YOU ARE APPOINTED AND WORK- ING FOR THE GOVERNMENT, Should you take the examination and fail, or net be appointed for any reason whatsoever, the loss will be ours and you will not owe us one cent for the course. g@=eClip and Mail This Coupon NOW!i=ss= — INTERSTATE HOME STUDY BUREAU A.C.41 F i Please RUSH mo FRE® particulars how to qualify for hl . Hl a government job. Namo SCRE OHHH HEHEHE HER EEOEEEEOTESEEEE i (Piease print plainty in pencil) & : Ny ee METEPL EE Te Te TEN oe Fy | Seer eee on Gath Ss cxeteons E if you wish Paste on Postcard and Mail. ey ee C25 PAY BE RC ES A SY Ms mas 10-‘STORY DETECTIVE He frowned. Then his frown turned to a smile as his brawny fist enclosed Doris Adair’s hand. “I'd be a dead duck now,” he add- ed softly, “if you hadn’t heined me get Slug Nixon.” The doctors predicted Clark’s early recovery from the bullet wound in- flicted by Nixon. But they held no hope whatever for his recovery from the effect Doris Adair had on his heart. The actress would be out of the cast indefinitely, as Clark had been previously informed—but this time, due to a honeymoon. The fateful key had served a double purpose. ¥ MER ASE TL * eas et ae Oe ye = 2 ae \ ames we = ‘ . ‘ wie Please mention AcE Fiction GROUP When answering advertisement €(0) |) 4 KGt 00) 4S8,(C(0) im