Argosy All-Story Weekly, October 7, 1922

About this issue

This issue contains five serials and eight shorter works across varied genres. The featured serial "Dirty Weather" by Rufus F. King begins a three-part mystery aboard a ship, opening with chief mate Peter Rutledge discovering a cryptic message warning of danger from "a man with the scar." Other continuing serials include John Schoolcraft's "The Bird of Passage" (part two of six), Hulbert Footner's "A New Girl in Town" (part three of six), Olive McClintic Johnson's "Magnificent Folly" (part four of five), and John Goodwin's "The Sign of the Serpent" (part seven of seven). Short fiction includes Henry Payson Dowst's "Wanted: A Bank President," Charles Divine's "Barber Shop Chords," E. F. Benson's "The Outcast," and others. Poetry and columns provide additional content. Next week's serialization will begin "Caste" by W. A. Fraser, set in India.

In this issue

• “Wanted: A Bank President” by Henry Payson Dowst · p.184
• “Immortal Frauds” by Captain Horatio Wragge · article · p.198
• “Barber Shop Chords” by Charles Divine · p.218
• “The Outcast” by E. F. Benson · p.243
• “A Clothes Call” by La Touche Hancock · article · p.252
• “Seeking a Thrill” by Miles Overholt · article · p.269
• “The Yangste Horde” by Philip M. Fisher, Jr. · p.270
• “Recognition” by Richard Butler Glaenzer · poem · p.294
• “Samaritan Stuff for 'Cilla” by James W. Egan · p.295
• “Little Things” by Faith Baldwin · poem · p.302
• “In Poppyland” by Fred B. Mann · p.303
• “Flowers I Would Bring” by Aubrey Thomas De Vere · poem · p.307
• “Common Kid Gloves” by Johnston McCulley · p.308
• “Brains in Sport” by Izzy Kaplan's Kolumn · article · p.318
• “Dirty Weather” by Rufus F. King · serial
• “The Bird of Passage” by John Schoolcraft · serial
• “A New Girl in Town” by Hulbert Footner · serial
• “Magnificent Folly” by Olive McClintic Johnson · serial
• “The Sign of the Serpent” by John Goodwin · serial
• “Caste” by W. A. Fraser · serial