The Wide World - The Magazine For Men, February (Feb.) 1916, No. 214, Vol. 36 - Building a Transcontinental Telephone Line / The Fetish Man's Downfall

1916

New York

Willey, D., Adams, W., Shepstone, H., Wagner, E., Moore, R., Besley, J., D'Easum B., Et Al

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The Wide World - The Magazine For Men, February (Feb.) 1916, No. 214, Vol. 36 - Building a Transcontinental Telephone Line, The Fetish Man's Downfall vintage ads. Features: The Sunken, Submarine - the experience which befell the U.S. submarine, "Diver" which shot its men from its torpedo tubes! (per cover, illustration), The Fetish Man's Downfall - a tale from Accra in 1899 involving, prisoner Yao Dwirra, Building a Transcontinental Telephone Line - marvelously, photo-illustrated article about the engineering and scientific, wonders of the first phone line connecting New York to San, Francisco, "Black Tom" - an exciting story from the early days of the, Pennsylvania oil-fields, "On the Wing" - extraordinary adventure with a big rattlesnake, in southern Mississippi, Down the Amazon From Source to Mouth (part V) - incredible tales, of a party working its way through hostile svages and the forces, of nature, The Train-Robbers - the tragic story of a hold-up on the, Northern Pacific Railroad and the long man-hunt which followed, 1892-1894, Wicks's Ordeal - the terrible menace which a man-eating tiger, constitutes to a community, Two Girls on a Ranch (part II) - two young ladies try to win, fortune by running a ranch in the wilds of Arizona, The Secret Post Office - an amusing echo of the Boer War showing, how the well-known 'slimness' and fertility of resource of the, Boers were for once turned against them, Concerning Camels - some amusing stories, A South Pacific Piracy - an account of the tragic voyage of the, brig "Moa, " of Auckland, New Zealand in 1870, The beacon of the Gulf - photo-illustrated article on Bird Rock, which lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Photo of a 'home-made' train run on the only railway in British, North Borneo Native Peoples Travel, Exploration & Adventure Magazine Back Issues

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