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Show o American Boy Magazine Loaded With Adventure "We try to make a subscription to THE AMERICAN BOY,'states Griffith Ogden Ellis, editor, "a round-trip ticket to a world-wide adventure cruise. "Most boys cannot afiford the luxury of travel but they can afford to settle down under a reading lamp and take an imaginative imagin-ative trip to foreign lands in American Boy stories." American Boy stories,during the coming year, will take readers to the atolls of the South Seas in a trading schooner, to the polar wastes behind a dog team, into the Canadian wilderness with the Mounted Police, through the Ca-ribean Ca-ribean with the U. S. Navy, even to the far-away planet of Mars in a space ship! There'll be true adventures a-mong a-mong the lions and chimpanzees ethnologist. In addition there'll of Africa with Captain Carl von Hoffman, famous explorer and be stories about the favorite characters char-acters of a million boys Bone-head Bone-head Jim Tierney, detective; Square Jaw Davis, engineer; Hide-rack.the Hide-rack.the red and gold collie; Connie Con-nie Morgan, and Douglas Renfrew. There'll be vocational stories that will help the reader select his life work, advice on hobbies, sports tips from famous coaches and players, money-earning suggestions sug-gestions vacation , hints, and worthwhile contests. THE AMERICAN BOY costs only ?1 a year, $2 for three years, foreign subscriptions 50 cents a yearextra. Send your name, address, add-ress, and remittance to THE AMERICAN BOY, 7430 Second Blyd., Detroit, Mich. Service will start with the issue you specify. On newsstands 10c a copy. |