Bibliography of Ellis Parker Butler

	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	OCT	NOV	DEC
1899
1900		Contented	A Culinary Puzzle
1901			The Thousand Dollar Man		The Hartsock Street Railway Company
1902												The Year That Never Began
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907						Wolves in Iowa
1908
1909
1910										Pigs is Pigs is Cited
1911
1912	The Puzzling Punch											Papa Pochard's Tree
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917										Himself Plus + The Correspondence School Deteckative	The Togbury Jool + One Hundred Dollars Reward + Henry + Four Tufts of Golden Hair	This Style, $20 + The Kinwiller Case + The Needle, Watson! + The Dark Closet + The Hound of the Tankervilles
1918	Too Much Gubb + The Tenth of June + Buried Bones					The Sad Reverse of Uncle				Himself Plus
1919						An Experiment in Gyro-Hats
1920		A Man Gets What's Coming to Him				Movies Is Movies
1921
1922												Ellis Parker Butler Head of Authors' Clan
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930					The Gnat
1931											Don't Twist Their Tails
1932
1933
1934
1935						Oh, Fenderton			On A Summer Day
1936
1937									Butler, Author of "Pigs Is Pigs," Expires at 67 + Pigs Is Pigs
1938
	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	OCT	NOV	DEC
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1900

1. Washington Post (February 11, 1900)   "Contented"   A poem. Reprinted from Turth. p 20.  [WASHPOST]
2. _____ (March 4, 1900)   "A Culinary Puzzle"   A poem. Reprinted from Truth. p 22.  [WASHPOST]

1901

3. Washington Post (March 17, 1901)   "The Thousand Dollar Man"   A story. p 31.  [WASHPOST]
4. _____ (May 26, 1901)   "The Hartsock Street Railway Company"   A story. p 31.  [WASHPOST]

1902

5. Washington Post (December 28, 1902)   "The Year That Never Began"   A story. One illustration. "If you ask any one in Muggendorf when the cheese factory burned, or when the new town pump was set up, he will tell you at once that it was in the year that never began, and that is the same as saying the year that Gustaf came to Muggendorf." pg. 36, 1 pgs.  [WASHPOST]

1907

6. Washington Post (June 23, 1907)   "Wolves in Iowa"   An article. "Iowa is a queer mixture of up-to-date Downeastness and genuine Wildwestness. It produces people like ex-Secretary Shaw and Tama Jim Wilson and also Ellis Parker Butler, the 'pigs is pigs' man." pg. MS1, 1 pgs.  [WASHPOST]

1910

7. Washington Post (October 20, 1910)   "Pigs is Pigs is Cited"   An article. "'Pigs is pigs,' a humorous story by Ellis Parker Butler, that convulsed the nation some years ago, was referred to yesterday in the United States Supreme Court by the government as an "authority" for its argument in defense of the constitutionality of the so-called 'Carmack amendment' to the Hepburn rate law." pg. 2, 1 pgs  [WASHPOST]

1912

8. Washington Post (January 21, 1912)   "The Puzzling Punch"   A story. p MS4, 8.  [WASHPOST]
9. _____ (December 8, 1912)   "Papa Pochard's Tree"   A story. Illustrations by Adrien Machefert. p SMA5+.  [WASHPOST]

1917

10. Washington Post (October 6, 1917)   "Himself Plus"   A story. Illustrated. p SM10.  [WASHPOST]
11. _____ (October 28, 1917)   "The Correspondence School Deteckative"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Thornton Fisher. p 3+.  [WASHPOST]
12. _____ (November 4, 1917)   "The Togbury Jool"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Thornton Fisher. p SF3.  [WASHPOST]
13. _____ (November 11, 1917)   "One Hundred Dollars Reward"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Thornton Fisher. p SM5+.  [WASHPOST]
14. _____ (November 18, 1917)   "Henry"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Thornton Fisher. p MF5+.  [WASHPOST]
15. _____ (November 25, 1917)   "Four Tufts of Golden Hair"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Thornton Fisher. p 69+.  [WASHPOST]
16. _____ (December 2, 1917)   "This Style, $20"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Thornton Fisher. p 68+.  [WASHPOST]
17. _____ (December 9, 1917)   "The Kinwiller Case"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Thornton Fisher. p SM4.  [WASHPOST]
18. _____ (December 16, 1917)   "The Needle, Watson!"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Thornton Fisher. p SM5.  [WASHPOST]
19. _____ (December 23, 1917)   "The Dark Closet"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Thornton Fisher. p F18.  [WASHPOST]
20. _____ (December 30, 1917)   "The Hound of the Tankervilles"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Thornton Fisher. p MF8.  [WASHPOST]

1918

21. Washington Post (January 6, 1918)   "Too Much Gubb"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Thornton Fisher. p FM8.  [WASHPOST]
22. _____ (January 13, 1918)   "The Tenth of June"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Thornton Fisher. p SM8.  [WASHPOST]
23. _____ (January 20, 1918)   "Buried Bones"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated. p SMA8.  [WASHPOST]
24. _____ (June 9, 1918)   "The Sad Reverse of Uncle"   A story. Illustrated. p MF2.  [WASHPOST]
25. _____ (October 6, 1918)   "Himself Plus"   "When he had been two years in New York Dick Mallon was beginning to feel discontented. He had come to New York because of a 'Help Wanted' he had seen in the Times." pg. SM10, 2.  [WASHPOST]

1919

26. Washington Post (June 22, 1919)   "An Experiment in Gyro-Hats"   A story. Illustrated by Albert Levering. p SM2+.  [WASHPOST]

1920

27. Washington Post (February 22, 1920)   "A Man Gets What's Coming to Him"   A story. "Wads of money and a Beautiful Girl -- What Would You Have Done?" p 71.  [WASHPOST]
28. _____ (June 20, 1920)   "Movies Is Movies"   "A few days ago, writes Ellis Parker Butler, the author of 'Pigs Is Pigs,' in the July Photoplay, a producer bought the motion picture rights of one of my novels -- the one called 'The Jack Knife Man' -- and paid $13,000 for it, all in real money. pg. 5, 1 pgs.  [WASHPOST]

1922

29. Washington Post (December 10, 1922)   "Ellis Parker Butler Head of Authors' Clan"   A notice. p 67.  [WASHPOST]

1930

30. Washington Post (May 11, 1930)   "The Gnat"   A story. Illustrated. Washington Post; May 11, 1930; p SM10+.  [WASHPOST]

1931

31. Washington Post (November 8, 1931)   "Don't Twist Their Tails"   A story. Illustrated. p MF10+.  [WASHPOST]

1935

32. Washington Post (June 30, 1935)   "Oh, Fenderton"   A Fenderton Roper story. Illustrated by Ethel Hays. p SM8+.  [WASHPOST]
33. _____ (September 29, 1935)   "On A Summer Day"   A story. Illustrated by Ethel Hays. p SM6.  [WASHPOST]

1937

34. 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]
35. _____ (September 14, 1937)   "Pigs Is Pigs"   An article. "It is no reflection on the twenty-odd books written by Ellis Parker Butler to say that 'Pigs Is Pigs' is the one which will always come to mind when his name is mentioned. The fact that he added two dozen others to American book shelves after his famous story of the prolific qualities of guinea pigs is proof that it was no mere flash in ..." pg. 8, 1 pgs.  [WASHPOST]

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