The Popular Magazine, April 20, 1917

This April 20, 1917 issue of The Popular Magazine features fiction by noted pulp authors. The issue opens with Holman Day's complete novel "The Dictator," about preparedness and military training. H.C. Witwer contributes a short story where baseball players Altberg and Journot's involvement in World War I conflict requires intervention. Victor Maxwell's "Opals Are Unlucky" involves Secret Service agent Arabia Marston pursuing crown jewels. Dane Coolidge's continuing serial "The Soldier's Way" (part II) follows Foreign Legionnaires Beanie Bosan and Bruce Whittle in Mexico. Other shorts include Wilbur Hall's "No Piker" (an oil company employee navigating high finance), Max Rittenberg's "One Moment, Please" (businessmen competing in a trial), Henry Herbert Knibbs's "The Machine-Gun Man" (a typist operating weaponry), Francis Metcalfe's concluded three-part "Ghost-Driven" (defeating spiritualist schemes), Henry Rucker's "Victuals for Venus," and J. Frank Davis's "Lion for Bait." Frank L. Packard contributes "The Wire Devils" series installment. Editorial content covers recruitment, savings accounts, and American drama.