authors Archives - 1947 Project

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Dec.1, 1907
Los Angeles

The Times runs a small blurb on writer Willis George Emerson, noting that the National Magazine has begun serializing a new story,

So Rude!

My goodness, one never knows what will turn up on Ebay. This morning I found a copy of

What the President Is Reading

July 21, 1907
Los Angeles

President Theodore Roosevelt suggests

In grappling with a novel about life in prison, writer Ernest Filer of Chicago decided that he should experience imprisonment for himself , thus he hatched the idea of breaking a window so he would be sent to jail.

He selected a small pane of glass at a cigar store and heaved a rock through it, assuming that he would be let off with a reprimand, a day or so in jail and an order to pay the cost of replacement.

The Cook County judge, however, took a dim view of his literary endeavors and

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