Argosy All-Story Weekly, May 3, 1924

About this issue

This issue features five serial continuations: Kenneth Perkins's "Sundown Cafe" (part one of six), a mystery by J.U. Giesy and Junius B. Smith called "A Stranger in Town" (part two of four), Arthur Hunt Chute's "The Roaring Forties" (part three of six), an untitled story from the memoirs of the Queen of Florania (part four of five), and David Fox's "The Handwriting on the Wall" (part six of six, concluding). The issue includes eight shorter works: Frank Richardson Pierce's "Totem Signs," Harold de Polo's "Spikes and Six Cains," Earl Wayland Bowman's "Edith in the Seventh Oasis," John D. Swain's "The Family Album," Jack Bechdolt's "What Steve Brodie Did," Raymond S. Spears's "A River Combine," Harold Freeman Miners's "The Light in the Cabin," and Jack Casey's "A Rodeo Romeo." Multiple poems appear throughout. An advertisement promises a four-part humorous serial by Rufus King titled "Dirty Work."

In this issue

• “To a Would-Be Rival” by Sara Gilday · poem · p.819
• “Totem Signs” by Frank Richardson Pierce · p.820
• “Life, As it Is” by Helen E. Haskell · poem · p.855
• “Spikes and Six-Guns” by Harold de Polo · p.856
• “Good Timber” by Carlos C. Hanks · poem · p.862
• “Faith in the Seventh Oasis” by Earl Wayland Bowman · p.878
• “Love, the Locksmith” by Harry Kemp · poem · p.903
• “The Family Album” by John D. Swan · p.904
• “The Dinkins Twins” by Paul West · poem · p.909
• “Change That Record!” by Vivien Chandler · poem · p.927
• “What Steve Brodie Did” by Jack Bechdolt · p.928
• “A River Combine—Professional” by Raymond S. Spears · p.937
• “The Light in the Cabin” by Harold Freeman Miners · p.945
• “Bridge” by W. J. Lampton · poem · p.953
• “A Rodeo Romeo” by Jack Casey · p.954
• “Sundown Café” by Kenneth Perkins · serial
• “A Stranger in Town” by J.U. Giesy and Junius B. Smith · serial
• “The Roaring Forties” by Arthur Hunt Chute · serial
• “The Handwriting on the Wall” by David Fox · serial
• “Dirty Work” by Rufus King · serial