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| NO. 1: MARCH 1917 | 1 |
| W.B. Marks Bio | 3 |
| Magical Jingles By Schulte | 3 |
| Literature | 3 |
| The World Of Magic | 4 |
| - S.A.M. Francis J. Werner | 4 |
| - The Spokane Mystic Club C.W. Talbott | 4 |
| - Society Of Detroit Magicians W.H. Domzalski | 4 |
| - Ray Newton Route | 4 |
| - The Yogi Club Of Philadelphia H.F. Kenna | 5 |
| - R.I. Society Of Magic | 5 |
| - National Conjurors Association C.J. Hagen | 5 |
| - Spot Lights From Hartford, Conn. Clarence T. Hubbard | 5 |
| - Doings Of The Demons Of Baltimore Robert W. Test | 6 |
| - W.J. Hilliar In The Vaudeville Breeze Says | 6 |
| - Do You Remember | 6 |
| - Golden Gate Assembly Of S.A.M. H.Syril Dusenbery | 7 |
| - Madison, Wis., News Notes Louis C. Haley | 7 |
| - The Society Of Toledo Magicians F.W. Lindsley | 7 |
| An Easily Constructed Illusion, Suitable For Drawing Room Work, Etc. Morgan & Peterson | 7 |
| The Ever Popular Vanishing Cloth, Its Use And Improvements Theo Bamberg | 8 |
| The Magic Globe By P.G. Pauley | 9 |
| Edwardo's Mysterio | 9 |
| The Card In The Pocket By Walter Gibson | 9 |
| Editor's Page | 10 |
| - Editor's Page Continued | 11 |
| New Handkerchief Tube By G.Gilmore Gravatt | 12 |
| Mysterious Watch By L. Cohen | 12 |
| The Mystic Revue | 12 |
| Bird Cage And Paper Bag By H.A. Brooks | 13 |
| The Educated Cards By Walter Gibson | 13 |
| Money Trick By Charles S. Weller | 14 |
| Mr. Weller Tells David P. Abbott How He Did The Trick | 14 |
| Magic Blocks By Richard Christy | 14 |
| Appearing Handkerchief By C.T. Marshfield | 14 |
| Water To Anything Frederick Spearer | 15 |
| The Magicians' League Will Goldston & A.Kellar Goodwin | 15 |
| Lonergan's Emergency Tambourine By Davis Lonergan | 15 |
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| NO. 2: APRIL 1917 | 21 |
| Ford B. Rogers, M.D. Bio | 23 |
| Stage Slang By G.F.Schulte | 23 |
| Literature | 23 |
| The World Of Magic | 24 |
| - S.A.M. Francis J. Werner | 24 |
| - Chicago Conjurors Club Comments E. Dornfield | 24 |
| - An Evening With The Chicago Conjurer's Club By Schulte | 24 |
| - News From New York Winfield C. Decker | 24 |
| - Spot Lights From Hartford, Conn. Clarence T. Hubbard | 25 |
| - Pittsburgh Association Of Magicians J.P. Keamer | 25 |
| - National Conjuror's Association | 25 |
| - Universal Society Of Magicians, Glasgow, Scotland Wm. Morgan | 25 |
| An After Dinner Seance With Spirits By L. Albert Thunig | 26 |
| - "Seance" Continued | 26 |
| - "Seance" Continued | 27 |
| - "Seance" Continued | 28 |
| Edwardo's Perfection Hank Production | 29 |
| Editor's Page | 30 |
| He Wasn't In It Poem | 31 |
| Martinka-Carter Transfer | 32 |
| An Appeal And Protest | 32 |
| Uncle Feelix Correspondence Column | 32 |
| Bamberg's Envelope Mystery | 33 |
| The Mystic Art Of Entertaining By Louis C. Haley | 34 |
| The Sliding Die Box By D. Graham Palmer | 35 |
| Ita Est Poem | 35 |
| A New Trick Deck By Glenn Gilmore Gavatt | 35 |
| Louineta Or The Traveling Queen By Harry Louine | 35 |
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| NO. 3: MAY 1917 | 41 |
| Prof. H.S. Woodworth Bio | 43 |
| The World Of Magic | 44 |
| - S.A.M. Francis J. Werner | 44 |
| - News From New York Winfield E. Decker | 44 |
| - Society Of Detroit Magicians | 45 |
| - Spot Lights From Hartford, Conn. Clarence T. Hubbard | 45 |
| - R.I. Local Of The N.C.A. | 45 |
| - National Conjurer's Association | 46 |
| - A Little News From The "Wild And Woolly" Dr. C.W. Tolant | 46 |
| - Madison, Wisconsin, News Notes Louis C. Haley | 46 |
| The Imporved Coin Ladder - Original Design And Construction By Theo. Bamberg | 47 |
| Conjuring Clippings By Schulte | 48 |
| Uncle Feelix | 48 |
| Ladson Butler's "Reading Another Man's Eyes." | 49 |
| A New Card Effect By Harry A. Lee | 49 |
| Editor's Page | 50 |
| Literature | 51 |
| The Magician's League Omar Yama | 51 |
| Just A Little Jabber By Clarence T. Hubbard | 52 |
| Handkerchief Flying Spots - Slates By Harry B. Lowe | 52 |
| Mystery Of The Seven Coins By Jack Kneiff | 53 |
| The Tip Top Card By Alfeti Conjurer | 53 |
| Some Thimble Sleights By Walter Gibson | 54 |
| The Improved Nest Of Envelopes And Torn Card By H. Syril Dusenbery | 54 |
| The Impossible Made Possible (Coin Vanish) By C.W. Rosecrans | 54 |
| Patriotic Combinations By H. Syril Dusenbery | 55 |
| The Banknote And Lemon Trick By Harry B. Lowe | 55 |
| Freedom's Choice By L. Cohen | 56 |
| An Evening In Magic Bookland Bt G.F. Schulte | 56 |
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| NO. 4: JUNE 1917 | 61 |
| The Great Leon Bio | 63 |
| Magic Notes By Schulte | 63 |
| A Calendar For Two Hundred Years By T.W. McGrath | 63 |
| Conjuring Quips Harry J. Podmore | 63 |
| The World Of Magic | 64 |
| - S.A.M. Francis J. Werner | 64 |
| - The Conjuror's Club Of Boston Hans C. Kleeman | 65 |
| - Magical Notes From Chicago W. Dornfeld | 65 |
| - Spot Lights From Hartford, Conn. Clarence T, Hubbard | 66 |
| - Society Of Detroit Magicians W.H. Domzalski | 66 |
| - Pittsburgh Association Of Magicians Sam Margules | 66 |
| - Golden Gate Assembly S.A.M. H. Syril Dusenbery | 67 |
| - Spokane, Washington, News C.T. Talbot | 67 |
| The Superior Silver Boxes And Ball Of Wool By Charles Neil Smith | 68 |
| Novel Die And Orange Combination With Sucker Box By C.W. Talbot | 69 |
| A Suggestion By Clayton W. Rosencrance | 69 |
| Editor's Page | 70 |
| Thanks And Acknowledgment Francis J. Martinka | 71 |
| Literature | 71 |
| John Nevil Maskelyne Obit | 72 |
| - Maskelyne Picture | 72 |
| Uncle Feelix | 72 |
| To Exposers Poem | 72 |
| The Bewitched Blocks Magicus | 73 |
| Magic Poem | 73 |
| The Mysterious Necktie By Walter Gibson | 74 |
| Aladdin's Spirit Frame | 74 |
| Among The Advertisers | 76 |
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| NO. 5: JULY 1917 | 81 |
| Norman Cummins Bio | 83 |
| Literature | 83 |
| The World Of Magic | 84 |
| - S.A.M. Francis J. Werner | 84 |
| - Eugene Laurant Route | 84 |
| - Cincinnati Magicians' Club Geo. W. Stock | 84 |
| - Buffalo Notes Ladson Butlere | 84 |
| - Society Of Detroit Magicians W,H, Domzalski | 85 |
| - R.I. Society Of Magicians' News C. Foster Fenneer | 85 |
| - Spot Lights From Hartford, Conn. Clarence T. Hubbard | 85 |
| - Coin Tray Idea Clarence T. Hubbard | 85 |
| - Comments From Chicago W. Dornfeld | 86 |
| - Mysterious Smith Route | 86 |
| An After Dinner Trick By Jesse A. Mueller | 86 |
| Some Sleight Suggestions By W. Russell Walsh | 86 |
| The Sympathetic Colors By Theo. Bamberg | 87 |
| The Astral Jacks By Harry Louine | 87 |
| Tenacious Card By Clayton W. Rosencrance | 87 |
| The Mysterious Spiritualistic Seance By A.D. Ross | 88 |
| Red, White And Blue Of 1917 L. Cohen | 89 |
| Isn't It So? By Rudolph Reimer, Jr, | 89 |
| To Show 'Em Up! By Matt Martin | 89 |
| Editor's Page | 90 |
| De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum | 91 |
| Prize Competition | 91 |
| Magical Mirth By Schulte | 91 |
| Conjuring Quips By Harry J. Podmore | 91 |
| Our English (Poem) By Harry J. Podmore | 91 |
| Watered Stock By Clarence T. Hubbard | 91 |
| Uncle Feelix | 92 |
| Another One by Ento | 92 |
| Pluck | 92 |
| Good Tricks By Christianer | 93 |
| - The Die And Box Of Flags | 93 |
| A Novel Coin Production By Chas. A. Gallon | 93 |
| Design For A Center Table | 93 |
| A Man Of Tricks (Drawing) By Len J. Sewell | 93 |
| A Pack Of Cards Used To Illustrate The Principle Of The Moving Picture Machine By Lewis R. Hilliar | 94 |
| Can You By L. Cohen | 94 |
| Then The Rush Began | 94 |
| Effect No. 2 By Gus Miller | 94 |
| As You Make It Poem | 94 |
| The Skill Of American Mystifiers Harry Houdini | 96 |
| Persistence Poem | 96 |
| Ben Smart, The Konjurer By Robert H.Heger | 96 |
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| NO. 6: AUGUST 1917 | 101 |
| F.A. Koester, D.D.S. Bio | 103 |
| Colorino By E.E. Duryee | 103 |
| Literature | 103 |
| The World Of Magic | 104 |
| - Pittsburgh Association Of Magicians Sam Margules | 104 |
| - Buffalo Notes Ladson Butler | 104 |
| - Mysterious Smith Route Albert Smith | 104 |
| - Puzzling Pierson's Paragraph | 104 |
| - Spotlights From Hartford, Conn. Clarence T. Hubbard | 104 |
| - Society Of Detroit Magicians W.H. Domzalski | 105 |
| - National Conjurors'Association | 105 |
| - What's Doing In Chicago W. Dornfeld | 106 |
| - Is Magic Dead? M. Ovette | 106 |
| - A Royal Good Time Oscar S. Teale | 106 |
| - Magicians And Collectors Attention | 106 |
| Vaudeville Chatter By Schulte | 107 |
| Thoughts Of Others By George Frederick Schulte | 107 |
| New Coin Trick by George Morrow | 107 |
| A Wave For The Wine And Water Wonder By Clarence T. Hubbard | 107 |
| The Sense Of Touch Prof. E.M. Lipka | 108 |
| Chemical Changes By R.S. Sugden | 108 |
| Disappearing And Changing Handkerchiefs By M. Ovette | 108 |
| Patter For Cut And Restore Tape By Frederick F. Furman | 108 |
| Vanishing And Appearing Clock by Harry S. Nonrment | 109 |
| Second Sight Trick By J.F. Pierce | 109 |
| A Phenomenal Speller By Russell Magician | 109 |
| Editor's Page | 110 |
| - Editor's Page Continued | 111 |
| A Card Effect By Frederick F. Furman | 112 |
| Uncle Feelix | 113 |
| Little Handkerchief Mystery By M. Ovette | 113 |
| The Hindoo Balls And Bow Russell | 114 |
| Mystic Malee by M. Ovette | 114 |
| Selected Article And Chosen Potatoes by M. Ovette | 114 |
| Modern Coin Substitution By Clayton W. Rosecrance | 115 |
| Prize Competition | 115 |
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| NO. 7: SEPTEMBER 1917 | 121 |
| The Faker Of Ava Bio | 123 |
| Spirit Writing Unsurpassed by R.S. Sudgen | 123 |
| The World Of Magic | 124 |
| - War News From Chicago W. Dornfeld | 124 |
| - Pittsburgh Association Of Magicians Sam Margules | 124 |
| - Spot Lights From Hartford Clarence T. Hubbard | 125 |
| - Society Of Detroit Magicians W.H. Domzalski | 125 |
| - National Conjurers Association | 125 |
| - Golden Gate Assembly S.A.M. H. Syril Dusenbery | 125 |
| - Mysterious Smith Route | 125 |
| - Magic News from Wheeling, W. Va. Paul R. Semple | 126 |
| - Laurant's Act L.W. Carroll | 126 |
| Cloth False Finger Manipulations By De Vega | 127 |
| Literature | 128 |
| Concerning Books By Harry J. Podmore | 128 |
| The Lemon Trick-My Own Version By Theo. Bamberg | 128 |
| Cards Up The Sleeve By Louis F. Christianer | 129 |
| Magic Ruler By M. Ovette | 129 |
| Ovette's Ace Trick | 129 |
| Editor's Page | 130 |
| - Editor's Page Continued | 131 |
| What's In A Name? By John W. Frey | 132 |
| Comical Conjuring Comments By Schulte | 132 |
| Readers Of The Sphinx De Vega | 132 |
| Conjuring Quips Harry J. Podmore | 132 |
| Again The Ball Of Wool Experiment M.F. Zens | 132 |
| David P. Abbott's Occultism T.W. McGrath | 133 |
| 1917 Glass Top Table L. Cohen | 134 |
| The Canary Silks L.B. Brown | 135 |
| The Flying Silk By H.A. Canar | 135 |
| An Easy Combination Trick By Paul R. Semple | 135 |
| The Magnetic And Revolving Wand | 135 |
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| NO. 8: OCTOBER 1917 | 141 |
| Mr. King bio | 143 |
| Literature | 143 |
| Ventriloquist Fat Cheek Boy Figure By L. Cohen | 143 |
| A Silk And Some Coins By T.C. Bonney | 143 |
| The World Of Magic | 144 |
| - Thurston's Tour | 144 |
| - Golden Gate Assembly S.A.M. H. Syril Dusenbery | 144 |
| - The Chicago Magic Resurrection W. Dornfeld | 144 |
| - Mysterious Smith Route | 144 |
| - Spot Lights From Hartford, Conn. Clarence T. Hubbard | 145 |
| - Pittsburgh Association Of Magician Sam Margules | 145 |
| - Chatty Mr. Ducrot G. F. Schulte | 145 |
| - Mahomet Goes To The Mountain Ladson Butler | 145 |
| - Society Of Detroit Magicians W.H. Domzalski | 146 |
| - New York City News Chas. J. Hagen | 146 |
| - Doings Of The Demons Of Baltimore Robert W. Test | 146 |
| - Minneapolis Items S. Lionel Paziski | 147 |
| - The Conjurors' Club Of Boston | 147 |
| - Magic News From Wheeling Paul R. Semple | 147 |
| - Universal Society Of Magicians, Glasgow, Scotland William Morgan | 147 |
| Uncle Feelix | 148 |
| Schulte's Column | 149 |
| The Magic Of Portraiture (Poem) By C.A. George Newman | 149 |
| The Rising Cards Extraordinary By M.F. Zens | 149 |
| Editor's Page | 150 |
| - Editor's Page Continued | 151 |
| The Japanese Treasure Box By Frederick F. Furman | 152 |
| A New Idea By Reppo | 152 |
| Paper Tearing Trick By Harry Louine | 152 |
| An Improved Card Stabbing Trick By H. Syril Dusenbery | 153 |
| The Telephone Mystery By Prof. Lipka | 153 |
| Chalk Stunt By M. Ovette | 154 |
| Improved Silks To Flag By M. Ovette | 154 |
| Voluntary Ventriloquism By Clarence T. Hubbard | 154 |
| New Smoke Trick By Ovette | 154 |
| Multiple Flap Card By Clayton W. Rosecrance | 155 |
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| NO. 9: NOVEMBER 1917 | 161 |
| Dr. George Wilhelm Fraker Obit | 163 |
| Another Five Card Vanish By Ovette | 163 |
| The Telephone Mystery Prof. E.M. Lipka | 163 |
| The World Of Magic | 164 |
| - S.A.M. Francis J. Werner | 164 |
| - Toledo Magicians' Club A.P. Saal | 164 |
| - Society Of Detroit Magicians W.H. Domzalski | 164 |
| - The Conjurers' Club Of Boston Hans C. Kleemann | 164 |
| - Spot Lights From Hartford, Conn. Clarence T. Hubbard | 165 |
| - Magicalities From Chicago W. Dornfeld | 165 |
| - R.I. Society Of Magicians, National Conjurors' Association | 166 |
| - National Conjurers' Association Kennedy | 166 |
| - Pittsburgh Association Of Magicians Sam Margules | 167 |
| - Magic News From Wheeling Paul R, Semple | 167 |
| - News From New York Winfield E. Decker | 167 |
| Uncle Feelix | 168 |
| Black Art Cabinet Robert Gifford | 168 |
| Necromatic Non-Sense By Schulte | 169 |
| Bouquets for G.F. Schulte | 169 |
| Selected Quotations And Extracts By Harry J. Podmore | 169 |
| A Color Changing Tube Russell | 169 |
| Mentality By Lester M. Yerkes | 169 |
| Editor's Page | 170 |
| Literature | 170 |
| Again, The Paper Tearing Trick By Charles Neil Smith | 171 |
| A Suggestive Act By Clarence T. Hubbard | 171 |
| Remlap's Ink Filtration By D. Grahan Palmer | 172 |
| The Usurpation Of Autocracy To Democracy | 172 |
| Another Bill Effect By Ovette | 173 |
| Fatal Originality (Poem) by Charles Neil Smith | 173 |
| New Wine And water Change by Ovette | 173 |
| The War Globe Poem | 173 |
| A Folding Dice By Russell | 174 |
| Dunninger At Yaphank | 174 |
| A Real Card Illusion By Ovette | 174 |
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| NO. 10: DECEMBER 1917 | 181 |
| S.S. Henry Bio | 183 |
| Letter To Houdini Harry Kellar | 183 |
| The Stranger | 183 |
| The World Of Magic | 184 |
| - S.A.M. Richard Van Dien | 184 |
| - S.A.M Golden Gate H. Syril Dusenbery | 184 |
| - Spot Lights From Hartford, Conn. Clarence T. Hubbard | 184 |
| - Society Of Detroit Magicians W.H. Domzalski | 185 |
| - Pittsburgh Association Of Magicians | 185 |
| - Society Of Modern Mystics | 186 |
| - The Magicians Club Of Cincinnati | 186 |
| - Toledo Magicians' Club A.P. Saal | 186 |
| - Denver, Colorado Notes Charles Neil Smith | 187 |
| - National Conjurors' Association Chas. J. Hagen | 187 |
| - Ye Magic Of Ye Far Easte W. Dornfeld | 188 |
| - Thurston's Route | 188 |
| - Universal Society Of Magicians Wm. Morgan | 188 |
| - Tricked By The Wrong Man | 189 |
| And So Forth By Schulte | 189 |
| What Is It? (Poem) By Charles Neil Smith | 189 |
| Editor's Page | 190 |
| Literature | 191 |
| Uncle Feelix | 191 |
| The Awakening (Poem) By Dr. T.C. Bonney | 191 |
| My Magic Portfolio By Henry R. Evans | 192 |
| Magic And The Four Hundred By Epes W. Sargent | 193 |
| The Handkerchief Dyeing Tube By Walter Gibson | 194 |
| A Mystic Divination By Walter gibson | 194 |
| Ovette's Wonderful Disappearing Egg Trick | 194 |
| Among The Advertisers | 194 |
| Supreme Personality Dr. Delmar Eugene Croft | 194 |
| The Wandering Egg By De Vega | 195 |
| Card In The Bottle By John H. Percival | 195 |
| Spirit Bell By Harry S. Norment | 196 |
| Chinese Magic, The Fire Bowl Production By Ovette | 197 |
| Everetto's False Shuffle By Clayton W. Rosencrance | 198 |
| Mind Reading Balls By Chas. A. Gallon | 198 |
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| NO. 11: JANUARY 1918 | 205 |
| Floyd G. Thayer Bio | 207 |
| Thayer's Magic Palace | 207 |
| Ladies Night Of The Los Angles Magicians Club | 207 |
| The World Of Magic | 208 |
| - S.A.M. Richard Van Dien | 208 |
| - Magical Notes From The Southland A.B. Harrington | 208 |
| - S.S. Henry Co. Route | 208 |
| - Spot Lights From Hartford, Conn. Clarence T. Hubbard | 209 |
| - Doings Of The Demons Of Baltimore Robert W. Test | 209 |
| - Philadelphia Notes Van Tome | 209 |
| - Pittsburgh Association Of Magicians Kikes Pieak | 209 |
| - Society Of Detroit Magicians W.H. Domzalski | 210 |
| - The Conjurors' Club Of Boston Hans C. Kleeman | 210 |
| - National Conjurors' Association Chas. J. Hagen | 210 |
| - Magic News From Wheeling, W. Va. Paul R. Semple | 211 |
| - Magic News From Everywhere W. Dornfeld | 211 |
| - Notes From Chicago Conjurers Club Homer H. Woulffe | 211 |
| Uncle Feelix | 212 |
| Lipka's Telephone Mystery - Improved By John H. Percival | 212 |
| Necromantic Notes By Schulte | 213 |
| Viewpoints | 213 |
| Just Released Clarence T. Hubbard | 213 |
| Russel's Watch Trick | 213 |
| Demon's Club Building Picture | 213 |
| Editor's Page | 214 |
| Ladson Butler's Imporved Growth Of Flowers | 215 |
| The Dematerialized And Materialized Pips By John H. Percival | 216 |
| The Mystic Oracle Of The Swinging Pendulums Or Mind Over Matter By David P. Abbott | 216 |
| Twentieth Century Patter For The Twentieth Century Handkerchiefs By W. Dornfeld | 217 |
| Ladson Butler's Imporved Growth Of Flowers Concluded | 218 |
| The Card Through The Handkerchief By T.C. Bonney | 219 |
| Schulte's Sayings | 219 |
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| NO. 12: FEBRUARY 1918 | 225 |
| David P. Abbott Misc. | 227 |
| Literature | 227 |
| False Thought by Ovette | 227 |
| The World Of Magic | 228 |
| - S.A.M. Richard Van Dien | 228 |
| - The Toledo Magicians' Club A.P. Saal | 228 |
| - Pittsburgh Association Of Magicians | 228 |
| - Chicago Conjuror's Club Homar H. Woulffe | 228 |
| - Society Of Detroit Magicians W.H. Domzalski | 229 |
| - Order Of The Magi, Manchester, England F.J. Measures | 229 |
| - Doings Of The Demons' Club Of Baltimore Robert W. Test | 230 |
| - National Conjurers Association, Providence, R.I. C. Foster Fenner | 230 |
| - Spot Lights From Hartford, Conn. Clarence T. Hubbard | 230 |
| - Dornfeld's Doings | 231 |
| - Magic News From Wheeling, W. Va. Paul R. Semple | 231 |
| - Magical Notes From The Southland A.B. Harrington | 231 |
| Some New Tricks With Thimbles By Paul R. Rockwood | 232 |
| To Convey Sound With The Fingers By Russell | 233 |
| Wanted | 233 |
| Ball Levitation By Harry S. Norment | 233 |
| Popular Paragraphs By G.F. Schulte | 233 |
| Editor's Page | 234 |
| Advertising - From A Magical Standpoint By Clarence T. Hubbard | 235 |
| An Imporved Table Trap By Del Reno | 235 |
| New Candle And Handkerchief Effect By Ramond R. Champe | 236 |
| Russell's Flag Tube | 236 |
| Coin Through Table Top Clayton W. Rosencrance | 237 |
| A Vanish By Aladdin | 237 |
| Bobby's Babbes By Robert H. Heger | 237 |
| Magic In Chicago In The Early Days By Harry S. Thompson | 238 |
| Doing His Bit - And A Big Bit By Paul Fuchs | 239 |
| The Chan Tung Mysteries Wm. A Russell | 239 |
