Munsey's Magazine, September 1908

# Catalog Note

This September 1903 issue of Munsey's Magazine contains diverse fiction and reportage. The featured illustrated article "The Race of the Four Nations" by Elmer E. Hawkes describes the James Gordon Bennett automobile race held in Ireland, won by German competitor M. Jenatzy at approximately fifty miles per hour. The serial "Milady of the Mercenaries" by Louis Joseph Vance continues (chapters VI-VIII). The illustrated feature "The Harrison Dynasty in Chicago" by Willis J. Abbot examines Carter H. Harrison Jr. and his father, who collectively governed Chicago for seventeen of the past twenty-five years. Additional content includes short stories such as "The Chauffeurs" by George Glendon, "Her Red-Letter Night" by Margaret Busbee Shipp, and "The Gold of the Ant-Hill" by Crittenden Marriott; articles on mosquito control and jockey work; and poems by S.H. Kemper and Ethel M. Colson, among others.