The Popular Magazine, January 7, 1925

About this issue

This issue of Popular magazine (January 7, 1925) contains nine short stories and two serials across adventure, romance, and crime fiction genres. The featured serial is Henry Herbert Knibbs' "Temescal," a five-part Southwest adventure romance beginning in this issue. The novelettes include Percival Wilde's "The Fifty-Third Card," about card expert Bill Parmelee on a dangerous mission, and Laurie York Erskine's "The Man with the Brown Eyes," a Western adventure-romance. Short stories span various types: Holman Day's "When 'Temperament' Came to Baldknob" concerns film culture's intrusion into rural life; Ralph D. Paine's "King Neptune Takes Command" presents traditional seafaring action; Robert H. Rohde's "The Diamond of the Diplomats" features detective character Macumber. Frank H. Spearman's "Selwood of Sleepy Cat" concludes its four-part serial. Additional stories include Charles Somerville's prize-fighting tale "Noblesse Oblige" and Eugene Jones' burglary story "Obediah's Money."