1905

1. Saturday Evening Post (September 23, 1905)   "Pete, the Circassian Horse" A story. "The story of a Hairy Wonder." Drawn by John Sloan. p 6-7,19.  [HANNIGAN]

1906

2. BOOK: Pigs is Pigs (April, 1906)   The first published book edition of the story that made Butler famous. A Mike Flannery story. Originally published as a story in the American Magazine, September 1905. Five illustrations by Will Crawford. New York: McClure, Phillips and Company.  [EPBLIB]
3. Woman's Home Companion (August, 1906)   "The Wage of Sin"   The story about how Samuel Mills came to be known as Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent. Illustrated by Frank Ver Beck. This story is retold later in chapter 5 of Kilo titled "Sammy Mills." Not indexed in RGTPL.  [EPBLIB]
4. ANTHOLOGY: Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1906) "Boob Maxon, Evolutionist"   A story. (The location of the story is Kilo, but there's no other similarity with the Kilo book.) The book is subtitled "A Little Nonsense." This is a different collection of stories than that of the 1888 book with the same name. Harper and Brothers Publishers. New York and London.  [EPBLIB]

1910

5. Sunset Magazine (January, 1910)   "Mrs. Dugan's Husbands" A story. Given the story line, the dialect used and the publication date, this is surely the same Mrs. Dugan as in "Mrs. Dugan's Discovery." p 9-11.  [RGTPL]

1914

6. Associated Sunday Magazines (May 31, 1914)   "Bill Higgins' Story"   A story. "After he had told the story ten times a year for ten years he began to see how empty the honor was." Drawings by Rollin McNeil Crompton. p 7, 8, 19.  [HARPER]
7. Young's Magazine (December, 1914)   "The Story"    [HARPER]

1915

8. The Book of Wonders (1915) "The Story in Pigs is Pigs" Article. Edited and Arranged by Rudolph John Bodmer. "The Book of Wonders, gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of everyday questions that are asked and which all should be able to, but cannot answer." "Fully illustrated with hundreds of educational pictures which stimulate the mind and give a bird's eye view of the wonders of nature and the wonders produced by man." Article on page 374 tells of the production of the 1914 film starring John Bunny, illustrated with several photographs. Presbrey Syndicate, Inc. New York. 1915.  [EPBLIB]

1916

9. Ladies' World (December, 1916)   "Wings" A Billy Brad story. "The story of a little boy who did not get what he wanted for Christmas." Illustrated by C. H. Taffs. p 6, 38.  [HARPER]

1917

10. American Magazine (July, 1917)   "Markley's 'Size-Up' of Dix"   A stort. "The story of a $2,000 man who had a price mark put on him by an expert accountant." Illustrations by Paul Stahr. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover.  [RGTPL]
11. _____ (August, 1917)   "The Temporary Receiver"   "The story of a crisis in the life of a $60-a-week man." Two illustrations by Paul Stahr. Page 34 is a photographic "portrait in Alco Gravure" of Butler and his son, Ellis Olmstead Butler. The photograph is copyright by Norman Butler, New York (relation?). This publication also includes a short "tribute" to Butler from Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins (Canadian-born American journalist, novelist. b. 1876, d. 1929). The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover.  [RGTPL]

1918

12. American Magazine (August, 1918)   "Thief! Thief!"   A boy story. "The story of Swatty's exciting adventure at the circus." Volume 86. Number 2. John M. Siddall, editor.  [BEST, EPBLIB, RGTPL]

1919

13. Everybody's Magazine (October, 1919)   "Economic Waste" A story. "The story of a hard-hit conscience." Illustrated by Edward M. Ashe. The name Ellis Parker Butler appears on the cover. p 46+  [RGTPL]

1920

14. Judge (February 28, 1920)   "The Log of a Lost Soul" A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" and the title of the story appear on the cover. "Found in a Whisky Bottle Floating Outside the Three Mile Limit on January 16th Last." p 5-7.  [EPBLIB]

1920?

15. BOOK: Billy Brad's Bank Book (1920?)   A reprint of the story printed in the February 1920 issue of Red Cross magazine. Printed as a promotional booklet by the Malden Savings Bank.  [HARPER]

1923

16. Munsey's Magazine (August, 1923)   "Scarlet Hours" A novel. "The story of Roger Haddard, the literary genius of Lewisville, and the business and social upheaval of which he was the center." Volume LXXIX. Number 3. Pages 385-427.  [EPBLIB, PULP]

1924

17. BOOK: Jibby Jones and the Alligator (1924) Subtitled "The Story of the Young Alligator-Hunters of the Upper Mississippi Valley." A collection of twenty six Jibby Jones stories. Illustrations by Arthur G. Dove. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.  [EPBLIB]

1925

18. Munsey's Magazine (June, 1925)   "The Human Sphinx"   A novelette. "The story of a man of mystery and a house of tragedy in a quiet suburb of New York. Volume LXXXV. Number 1. p 1-29.  [EPBLIB]

1926

19. Laughter (February, 1926)   "Brain" According to an eBay auction, this issue is Vol 3, No 5., has only 64 pages, and the table of contents doesn't include the Butler story. HARPER shows the story on pages 70-72.  [HARPER]
20. _____ (March, 1926)   "Hawkins Tells the Truth" According to an eBay auction, this issue is Vol 3, No 6 and does not have a Butler story. HARPER shows the story on pages 23-29.  [HARPER]

1929

21. American Magazine (January, 1929)   "Egbert The First"   Illustrated by Herbert Paus. "The story of the Suspender King who took a hitch in his own galluses."  [RGTPL]
22. _____ (February, 1929)   "The Gnat" A story. Illustrated by Victor C. Anderson. "The story of a strange conflict between a town's richest man and its poorest." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Also appears in The Des Moines Sunday Register 27-JUL-1930.  [RGTPL]
23. Liberty (October 5, 1929)   "Chips" A story. "The story of a Professor in Love." Pictures by A. D. Fuller. The name "Butler" appears on the cover. p 70-79.  [HARPER]

1933

24. St. Nicholas Magazine (April, 1933)   "Tom Betts' Dog" A story. Illustrations by R. M. Brinkerhoff. "This is the story of a dog who was big enough, and strong enough, but who had a good deal of trouble with his tail." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 286-88, 311-12.  [RGTPL]
25. ANTHOLOGY: Humor By Vote (1933) "The Great American Pie Company"   "The voters being George Ade, Ellis Parker Butler, Irvin S. Cobb ... and others." H. H. Howland, editor. Butler's story was selected by Chic Sale who starred in the 1935 movie version of the story. Also, Butler selected a poem by Robert J. Burdette ("The Romance of the Carpet"). New York: The Laugh Club. p 222-238.  [EPBLIB]

1936

26. American Boy (October, 1936)   "The Heifer Tree"   "The story of a rampaging river, a very bright idea, and a cow who objected to being rescued." Illustrated by Dudley Gloyne Summers.  [EPBLIB]

1937

27. Washington Post (September 14, 1937)   "Butler, Author of "Pigs Is Pigs," Expires at 67"   "Butler, Author Of 'Pigs Is Pigs,' Expires at 67; Convulsed Nation in 1906 With Funny Story of Freight Agent." Obituary. "Housatonic, Mass., Sept. 13. -- Ellis Parker Butler, who wrote 'Pigs Is Pigs,' the story of the prolific guinea pigs which has kept America laughing for 31 years, died today at his summer home." p 3.  [WASHPOST]
28. ADAPTATION: Raising the Roof (1937)   A play. "A Mystery Farce in Three Acts." Dramatized by Jeanne Mower. Presented on the stage of "The Crow Stock Company" (Hollywood?) on Easter weekend 1937. Based on the story "The Misses Meekins" in McCalls. Unpublished (?).  [NYPL]

1944

29. ANTHOLOGY: The Story Pocket Book (December, 1944) "The Tuckle Beard"   A story. Selected by Whit Burnett, editor of Story Magazine. Paperback. New York: Pocket Books. p 60-74.  [EPBLIB]

1997

30. ANTHOLOGY: Mom in My Heart (1997) "Billy Brad and the Big Lie"   Compiled and Edited by Joe L. Wheeler. The story is listed as "author unknown". p 43-6. ISBN 0-8423-0552-1. Republished in 2000 as Heart to Heart Stories for Moms. ISBN 0-8423-3603-6.  [EPBLIB]

2003

31. Iowa Heritage Illustrated (Fall, 2003)   "In Commemoration of Ellis: The Iowa Beginnings of a Great American Humorist"   An article by Katherine Harper. "He wrote the story "Pigs Is Pigs" -- and a few thousand more." Vol. 84. Published by the State Historical Society of Iowa.  [WEB]

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