Midnight, September 16, 1922

Midnight, Volume 1, Number 5 (September 1922)

This issue centers on a "Midnight Adventures" writing contest offering $500 in cash prizes for readers' personal thrilling experiences. Featured content includes confessions: "How I Got Away with It," a first-person narrative of a girl who posed as a boy for eight years in Philadelphia, living with street gangs and engaging in criminal activities; Hope Eden's "Amazing Questions Women Ask Me"; and Veronica's life story from New York's Moulin Rouge. Adventure stories include "How Andrew Carnegie Saved Me From a Thrashing" and "The Girl Who Paid $15,000 for Me" by T. Howard Kelly and L. Atkinson. A mystery entry is "Charged with His Own Murder." Features include an editorial by Bernarr Macfadden titled "The Pathway to Hell," discussing moral degradation; "Your Greatest Mystery Solved" conducted by magician Howard Thurston; pictorial and question-based features about American women's appearance; and reader advice columns.