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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 (3 hr 45 min)

Chapters

Remarkable Remarks

4:43

Read by MaryAnn

Throwing Away Our Birthright

9:06

Read by Michele Fry

A New South. The Boll-Weevil Era Condensed from The Atlantic Monthly by E. T. …

7:06

Read by MaryAnn

The Kiss Digested from The Forum by EMILE MALESPINE

8:14

Read by jenno

What Patricia Heard From Tokio Excerpts from Harper’s Magazine by FRANCES LITT…

8:07

Read by ArmReader

What Makes People Laugh? Condensed from The World’s Work by CHARLIE CHAPLIN

7:48

Read by Bill Mosley

Scientific Progress of the Year 1921 Condensed from Scientific American

7:25

Read by Larry Wilson

The Truth About Vivisection Excerpts from Woman’s Home Companion by ERNEST HA…

10:28

Read by mleigh

Our Common Lot

4:49

Read by MaryAnn

Adventure Excerpts from Good Housekeeping by KATHARINE EGGLESTON ROBERTS

3:26

Read by dc

Fair Play for the World Summarized from The Outlook by KATHERINE MAYO

6:53

Read by MaryAnn

A Princess in Exile Condensed from Pictorial Review by PRINCESS MANICH MOURADI…

6:42

Read by MaryAnn

The Woman Who Should Marry A Condensation from Good Housekeeping by ANNE SHANN…

8:30

Read by Stacey Malcolm

Have You Any Idea How You Sound When You Speak? by FRED C. KELLY IN McCLURE’S M…

6:09

Read by Grevicci

Useful Points in Judging People

7:20

Read by dc

Human Nature and Industrial Conflict

6:01

Read by Michele Fry

Cities With Junior Government

2:36

Read by Stephen Graham

Theodore Roosevelt, the Father by HERMAN HAGEDORN

7:17

Read by Raven Moore Amerman

What Interests People?

7:29

Read by Anthony Will

The Farmer and His Troubles by HENRY C. WALLACE

7:00

Read by MaryAnn

Music---How It Affects Your Health Condensed from Physical Culture by CHARLES …

6:53

Read by Larry Wilson

Sold A condensation from The New Republic by ROBERT COLLYER WASHBURN

4:50

Read by Denis Gagné

The Wonders of the Firmament Excerpts from the National Geographic Magazine by…

7:33

Read by MaryAnn

About Clothes

8:29

Read by jenno

$40,000 For a Hog. How Much For Your Child?

7:51

Read by Ann Boulais

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by ARNOLD BENNETT

8:23

Read by MaryAnn

The Picturesque Gypsies

8:40

Read by mleigh

Taking the Water out of the Cost of Living Abstracted from the Popular Science…

9:01

Read by Rohit Gokhale

When Spiders Fly Digested from Country Life by AGNES L. B. KING

5:49

Read by Natalie Fortier

“What Fools We Mortals Be” The gist of an article in Success by ORISON SWETT M…

6:39

Read by Elizabeth Copnall

History and the Limitation of Armaments

6:24

Read by KevinS

The Art of Opening a Conversation Condensed from Vanity Fair by STEPHEN LEACOCK

7:29

Read by Anita Hibbard