Bibliography of Ellis Parker Butler

	American Girl January, 1935 Click for larger image

1935

1. American Girl (January, 1935)   "The Boiled Ham Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "Betty Bliss and the Detective Club are called in to work on a burglary which baffles the police." Illustrated by Leslie Turner. p 16-18, 32.  [HARPER]
2. Writer's Review (February, 1935)   "What to Write"    [LOCKE]
3. Boys' and Girls' Newspaper (February 24, 1935)   "The Mud Creek Rattlers"    [HARPER]
4. American Girl (March, 1935)   "The White Rabbit Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "There wasn't a crime in the neighborhood for the Detective Club to solve till Art's rabbits vanished." Illustrations by Leslie Turner. p 16-18, 42-43.  [HARPER]
5. Woman's Home Companion (March, 1935)   "Pride of Mrs. Pelty"   A story. Illustrated by Rico Le Brun.  [RGTPL]
6. Argosy (March 9, 1935)   "Murder Money"   A short story. "A careful clueless murder. A murderer often leaves behind a clue for the law -- but in this clueless crime the law unwittingly provided its own solution." One illustration.  [ARGOSY, PULP]
7. Every Week (March 1, 1935)   "Take It and Like It"   A story. "Her name was Cast-iron Annie, and a young man in love -- and in trouble -- found her a friend indeed." Illustrated by Harry Grissinger. Found in the Lima (Ohio) News.  [NPA]
8. Boys' and Girls' Newspaper (March 3, 1935)   "The Mud Creek Rattlers"    [HARPER]
9. _____ (March 10, 1935)   "The Mud Creek Rattlers"    [HARPER]

	Short Stories March 10, 1935 Click for larger image

10. Short Stories (March 10, 1935)   "Lunk-head Johnson" A story. "Running for Mayor of Dog Leg on the Reform Ticket. Reformation of the Mayor Ticket!" p 144-150.  [HARPER]
11. Boys' and Girls' Newspaper (March 17, 1935)   "The Mud Creek Rattlers"    [HARPER]
12. Every Week (March 17, 1935)   "Cloudburst"   A story. "Very sorry plight indeed of Ed Chambers, who was marooned in a flood on his wedding day." Illustrated by Joe King. Found in the Lima (Ohio) News.  [NPA]
13. Boys' and Girls' Newspaper (March 24, 1935)   "The Mud Creek Rattlers"    [HARPER]
14. American Boy (April, 1935)   "Binkey Brothers"   A story. "They came to town and Westcote madly plunged into the stock market!" Illustrations by R. M. Brinkerhoff. Babe Ruth cover.  [EPBLIB]
15. Esquire (April, 1935)   "Helping Arthur" A story. "A satire." "A couple of amateur actors come close to bungling their lines in one of life's standby farces."  [EPBLIB, ESQUIRE]
16. Boys' and Girls' Newspaper (April 1, 1935)   "The Mud Creek Rattlers"    [HARPER]
17. _____ (April 8, 1935)   "The Mud Creek Rattlers"    [HARPER]
18. _____ (April 15, 1935)   "The Mud Creek Rattlers"    [HARPER]
19. Family Circle (April 26, 1935)   "A Present for Arthur"   Illustrated by Herbert Roese.  [EBAY]

	Blue Book May, 1935 Click for larger image

20. Blue Book (May, 1935)   "The Cruise of the Nancy Bell" A story. "Lying done in a large way may be amusing indeed." Illustrated by Bert Salg. Volume 61. Number 1.  [EPBLIB, PULP]
21. Good Housekeeping (May, 1935)   "Mrs. Dugan's Discovery"   Humor. Golden Anniversary Edition. This reprint carries this editor's note: "At 50 one may be permitted to reminisce, so Good Housekeeping recalls this story it laughed at over 30 years ago. Read by the author at a "Discovery" dinner at the Hotel Astor in 1905, it has been three times reprinted -- in 1908, '11, '18 -- because of reader request for copies. For our birthday we print it for the fifth time."  [RGTPL]
22. Story Magazine (May, 1935)   "The Tuckle Beard"   A story. Also printed in the London Sunday Express.  [EPBLIB]
23. Top-Notch (May, 1935)   "Letter"   Testimonial in the Silver Anniversary Issue.  [LOCKE]
24. This Week (May 5, 1935)   "Detour"   The copy in EPBLIB is from the Sunday Star, Washington D.C. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover.  [EPBLIB]
25. Writer's Digest (June, 1935)   "Ellis Parker Butler Talks on Humor"   By Henry Harrison. "Interviews With Notable Authors". p 11-13.  [LOCKE]
26. This Week (June 9, 1935)   "Wedding Guest"    [HARPER]
27. Every Week (June 17, 1935)   "Ask Papa"   A story. "Joe Beck sold cars -- but he could have sold anything." Illustrated by Ethel Hays. Found in the Helena (Montana) Independent.  [NPA]
28. This Week (June 30, 1935)   "Mrs. Pentwater's Worry"    [HARPER]
29. Washington Post (June 30, 1935)   "Oh, Fenderton"   A Fenderton Roper story. Illustrated by Ethel Hays. p SM8+.  [WASHPOST]
30. Golden Book Magazine (July, 1935)   "Our First Burglar"   A story. This story also appears in The Water Goats and Other Troubles. One original illustration.  [EPBLIB, FICTIONMAGS]

	Grit (Story Section) July 7, 1935 Click for larger image

31. Grit (Story Section) (July 7, 1935)   "Jiffers on the Job" A story. "The mystery of the stolen dog." p 2-3, 26-28.  [EPBLIB]
32. American Girl (August, 1935)   "The Thirty-Nine Dimes Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "The Detective Club goes sleuthing once again and enables innocence to triumph." Illustrated by Leslie Turner. p 5-8, 45.  [HARPER]
33. Complete Western Book (August, 1935)   "Cowpuncher's Paradise" A story. "In which a couple of punchers find a Utopian range -- no dudes -- no woman -- no cattle." One illustration. Same as "Bruce of the Bar-None". The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 89-94.  [PULPGEN]
34. Street & Smith's Complete Magazine (August, 1935)   "The Ufa Cheese"   A story.  [PULPGEN]
35. This Week (August 18, 1935)   "Sitting Pretty"    [HARPER]
36. St. Nicholas Magazine (September, 1935)   "Rajah's Vase"   A story. Illustrations by W. P. Couse.  [RGTPL]
37. Every Week (September 1, 1935)   "Eddie and the Right Idea"   A story. "The Dolans were on relief, and Ma Dolan thought the discouragement of not being able to find work might ruin her boy, so she found a plan." Illustrated by Ethel Hays. Found in the Lima (Ohio) News. Also, Washington Post on the same date; p SM8.  [NPA, WASHPOST]
38. Argosy (September 21, 1935)   "The Prodigal's Return" A short story. "A family black sheep returns home in a strange way." Volume 258. Number 5. "The dusty remains of Henry Okth arrived at the old homestead in a candy box, but the funeral was postponed indefinitely." One illustration.  [ARGOSY, PULP]

	Argosy September 21, 1935 Click for larger image

39. Washington Post (September 29, 1935)   "On A Summer Day"   A story. Illustrated by Ethel Hays. p SM6.  [WASHPOST]
40. Boys' and Girls' Newspaper (October, 1935)   "Indian Giver"    [HARPER]
41. St. Nicholas Magazine (November, 1935)   "Portrait"   Cited by CHAPIN and listed in RGTPL, this portrait of the author consists of a single paragraph and a black and white photo on page 1.  [CHAPIN, RGTPL]
42. McCall's (December, 1935)   "The Misses Meekins"   A story. "Ellis Parker Butler tells a merry story of the Misses Meekins who raise the roof fund in a most peculiar way." Illustrated by F. R. Gruger. As a side note, there is an unrelated "Pigs is Pigs" article in the March 1944 issue of McCall's.  [EPBLIB]
43. St. Nicholas Magazine (December, 1935)   "Wiffenpoof Island"   A story. Illustrations are attributed to R. W. Brinkerhoff... do they mean R. M. Brinkerhoff?  [RGTPL]
44. ANTHOLOGY: A Preface to College Prose (1935) "The Financial Structure"   Humor. Edited by Charles Gott and John A. Behnke. New York: Macmillan. p 224-29.  [HARPER]
45. ANTHOLOGY: Junior Fun in Bed: Making a Holiday of Convalescence (1935) "The Stolen Mascot"   Virginia Kirkus and Frank Scully, editors. New York: Simon and Shuster.  [HARPER]
46. MOTION PICTURE: The Great American Pie Company (1935)   MGM. Director: Nick Grinde. Performers: Chic Sale, Spencer Charters.  [HARPER]
47. ANTHOLOGY: Today's Literature (1935) "Nature's Wisdom"   A poem. Dudley Chadwick Gordon, Vernon Rupert King and William Whittingham Lyman, editors. New York: American Book Company. p 332. ISBN 0848666283.  [HARPER, ROTH]

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