Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-11-30
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What 1t Does" is the title of a little
elementary book issued by the Amer
lean Book Company of Chicago and
New York. Its author is Walter
Storrs Clark, and the work is de-
signed primarily for high school read
ing. 1t is such an exhaustive yet con-
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government and the relations of every
department, one to the other, from
town meeting to congress and the
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foreign countries.
The new publishers of Everybody's
Magazine declare the holiday issue or
the publication to be much the best
they have yet produced. 1t is not the
typical Christmas number made up of
stilted fiction and pictures of the
festival in many lands. 1t is just an
especially lively and entertaining
magazine. full of really good stories,
clever pictures, and we'll written and
timely articles.
An issue of extraordinary beauty
and interest will be the Christmas
December) Metropolitan Magazine.
While space will not permit more
than a brief mention of the more
striking features of this great holiday
issue, a sufficient number of items
from its contents may be quoted to
give some hint of it's charm. This
number will be in effect a demonstra-
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color. There will be some seventy
five pictures, most Of which will be OF
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1t is the comic side of newspaper
experiences that is taken up in the
Little Stories of Journalism In
The Reader Magazine for December.
julius Chambers has had many odd
adventures. and his stories of the
dynamite brick and the diverted Span
ish duel are fresh and diverting
They of course are true. The other
stories in the number are felton,
one is by Edgar Fawcett, a love story,
but not a trite one the other is the
installment of Miriam Michelson's
serial. 1.-THE Bishops Carriage."-we
call the installment a story, because
this novel is SO constructed that each
chapter is a complete tale, satisfac-
tory in itself. Another of the articles
this month is a confession" this
time of a theatrical press agent. who
calls the man in his line THE Show
lest Trickster," and gives instances
of the amazing games he resorts to
to get his plays talked about in the
newspapers.
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