The Mysterious Mascot

Argosy, September 13 1930
THE MYSTERIOUS MASCOT
by Art J. Purcell

Betting on an uncertain champion

Anything American could lick anything foreign, boasted Pinwheel and his fellow doughboys; but they didn’t know what sort of bird they were pitting against the poilus’ champion gamecock

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And as a bonus, several short features:


Argosy, September 13 1930
An Automobile Museum
by Leon Rowland
100 Words
Short Feature about an old car museum in San Jose.

Argosy, September 13 1930
Chinese Nostalgia
by John Caldwell
300 Words
Short tragic feature about Chinese migrant workers imported to work on the Panama Canal.

Argosy, September 13 1930
Malaga
by Raymond A. Wohlrabe
250 Words
Short feature on a Samoan custom.

Argosy, September 13 1930
ARGONOTES
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Reader mail including a brief Autobiography by Art Purcell, a history lesson on John Paul Jones by Joseph Ivers Lawrence, and a science lesson from Erle Stanley Gardner.

This edition includes the illustrations from the story and features, as well as an in-house ad for the next issue of Argosy and the cover of the Sep 13 1930 issue.