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The Reader's Digest, Volume 1, Issue 2

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Twenty one articles each month from leading magazines - Each article of enduring value and interest, in condensed and compact form.
A most convenient means of “keeping one’s information account open” —of reading stimulating articles on a wide variety of subjects. - Summary by From the title / front page

Genre(s): Short non-fiction

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Remarkable Remarks	MaryAnn	00:04:43
Play 02	Throwing Away Our Birthright	Michele Fry	00:09:06
Play 03	A New South. The Boll-Weevil Era Condensed from The Atlantic Monthly by E. T. H. SHAFFER	MaryAnn	00:07:06
Play 04	The Kiss Digested from The Forum by EMILE MALESPINE	jenno	00:08:14
Play 05	What Patricia Heard From Tokio Excerpts from Harper’s Magazine by FRANCES LITTLE	ArmReader	00:08:07
Play 06	What Makes People Laugh? Condensed from The World’s Work by CHARLIE CHAPLIN	Bill Mosley	00:07:48
Play 07	Scientific Progress of the Year 1921 Condensed from Scientific American	Larry Wilson	00:07:25
Play 08	The Truth About Vivisection Excerpts from Woman’s Home Companion by ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES	mleigh	00:10:28
Play 09	Our Common Lot	MaryAnn	00:04:49
Play 10	Adventure Excerpts from Good Housekeeping by KATHARINE EGGLESTON ROBERTS	dc	00:03:26
Play 11	Fair Play for the World Summarized from The Outlook by KATHERINE MAYO	MaryAnn	00:06:53
Play 12	A Princess in Exile Condensed from Pictorial Review by PRINCESS MANICH MOURADIAN	MaryAnn	00:06:42
Play 13	The Woman Who Should Marry A Condensation from Good Housekeeping by ANNE SHANNON MONROE	Stacey Malcolm	00:08:30
Play 14	Have You Any Idea How You Sound When You Speak? by FRED C. KELLY IN McCLURE’S MAGAZINE	Grevicci	00:06:09
Play 15	Useful Points in Judging People	dc	00:07:20
Play 16	Human Nature and Industrial Conflict	Michele Fry	00:06:01
Play 17	Cities With Junior Government	Stephen Graham	00:02:36
Play 18	Theodore Roosevelt, the Father by HERMAN HAGEDORN	Raven Moore Amerman	00:07:17
Play 19	What Interests People?	Anthony Will	00:07:29
Play 20	The Farmer and His Troubles by HENRY C. WALLACE	MaryAnn	00:07:00
Play 21	Music---How It Affects Your Health Condensed from Physical Culture by CHARLES D. ISAACSON	Larry Wilson	00:06:53
Play 22	Sold A condensation from The New Republic by ROBERT COLLYER WASHBURN	Denis Gagné	00:04:50
Play 23	The Wonders of the Firmament Excerpts from the National Geographic Magazine by WILLIAM JOSEPH SHOWALTER	MaryAnn	00:07:33
Play 24	About Clothes	jenno	00:08:29
Play 25	$40,000 For a Hog. How Much For Your Child?	Ann Boulais	00:07:51
Play 26	How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by ARNOLD BENNETT	MaryAnn	00:08:23
Play 27	The Picturesque Gypsies	mleigh	00:08:40
Play 28	Taking the Water out of the Cost of Living Abstracted from the Popular Science Monthly by JAMES H. COLLINS	Rohit Gokhale	00:09:01
Play 29	When Spiders Fly Digested from Country Life by AGNES L. B. KING	Natalie Fortier	00:05:49
Play 30	“What Fools We Mortals Be” The gist of an article in Success by ORISON SWETT MARDEN	Elizabeth Copnall	00:06:39
Play 31	History and the Limitation of Armaments	KevinS	00:06:24
Play 32	The Art of Opening a Conversation Condensed from Vanity Fair by STEPHEN LEACOCK	Anita Hibbard	00:07:29

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