Liberty (April 26, 1930) "Real Money" A story. "A Story of Paper Profits." Pictures by L. R. Gustavson. p 20-26. [HARPER]
Outdoor America (May, 1930) "Something Unusual" A story. Drawings by Donald Hough. "In which an English Duke Lands a Rainbow Trout in an Extraordinary Manner and Observes American Fishing Customs." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 5-7, 60. [EPBLIB]
Washington Post (May 11, 1930) "The Gnat" A story. Illustrated. Washington Post; May 11, 1930; p SM10+. Also in the New York Tribune on the same date and the Des Moines Sunday Register on 27-JUL-1930. [WASHPOST]
Target (August 16, 1930) "Stoopid Went Fishing" A Jibby Jones story. Illustrated by R. M. Brinkerhoff. Volume XC. Number 33. "A Paper for Boys" "Continuing the Sunday School Advocate" Copyright 1930 by the Methodist Book Concern, 420 Plum Street, Cincinnati OH. [HARPER]
_____ (September, 1930) "Easy as Pie" Humor. Published in "the Contributor's Club" section. Butler's solution to the Prohibition question. Uncredited. p 420-421. [HARPER]
Grand Magazine (September, 1930) "Enter Fate-Punctured" A story. [FICTIONMAGS]
Rotarian (September, 1930) "Too Much Rabbit" Later reprinted in Hunting the Wow. [HARPER]
New Yorker (September 13, 1930) "The 'Interoceanic Magazine' Takes After the Radio" Humor. This piece (with many significant differences in the text) was also included in Hunting the Wow under the title "If Magazines Did." p 78-80. [HARPER]
College Humor (October, 1930) "Say Wen" A story. "I consider it decidedly undignified for a dean of a co-educational college to hold a professor of Higher Mathematics on her lap." Illustrated by Ray Rohn. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 30-31, 114-116. [EPBLIB]
Holiday (October, 1930) "Step Right Inside!" A story. "Custom cannot stale the infinite variety of the County Fair." The phrase "'Let's Go To the Fair! by Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 27, 62. [HARPER]
Saturday Evening Post (October 25, 1930) "Being Happy with Walter" A story. Illustrated by Henrietta McCaig Starrett. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 14-15, 50, 52. [RGTPL]
Saturday Review (October 4, 1930) "Review of Whither Whiter, or After Sex, What?" A review of the book by Walter S. Hankel. [HARPER]
American Boy (November, 1930) "Testing Stoopid" A Jibby Jones story. Illustrated by R. M. Brinkerhoff. [EPBLIB]
American Girl (November, 1930) "Jo Ann and the Bird" A story. Illustrated by Garrett Price. "Jo Ann's eyes glittered as she saw the red head of Tommy Bassick, she uttered a shrill war cry and leaped forward, and after her came the war-whooping Wilmot Indians." p 14-16, 40-42. [HARPER]
American Magazine (November, 1930) "Don't Twist the Tail!" Illustrated by Frank Hoffman. "A story with a kick in it!" Volume 111. Number 5. [RGTPL]
Bookman (November, 1930) "Letter From The Author" A Portfolio: A Letter from the Author. Norbert Mortimer Bliggs. The Bookman; a Review of Books and Life (1895-1933). New York:Nov 1930. Vol. 72, Iss. 3, (2 pp.) [RGTPL]
A Book of Iowa Authors By Iowa Authors (1930) "Ellis Parker Butler" By Frank Luther Mott. Reprinted from JAN-1928(?). The book is edited by Johnson Brigham (State Librarian) in cooperation with Charles F. Pye and F. A. Welch. Des Moines: Iowa State Teachers Association. Includes a photo of the author. p 33-42. [EPBLIB]
BOOK: Ballyhoo (1930) "Gustapher Plogs and the Spotted Cow" A reprint of a Betzville Tale. p 2-3. New York Magazine, Hammerstein's Theater program featuring the production "Ballyhoo" (1930). This musical comedy show opened on December 22, 1930 and closed February 1931, with 68 total performances. The cast included W. C. Fields. [EBAY, WEB]
BOOK: Dollarature or, The Drug-Store Book (1930) An essay in twenty-four pages about books, authors and the way books are sold in America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. [EPBLIB]
Dutch Treat Club Year Book (1930) "Bloody Tuesday Is Coming!" This article is election rhetoric for the Dutch Treat Club. Ellis Parker Butler was a founding member (along with Thomas Lansing Masson and Robert S. Yard). The club, still in existence (see the Dutch Treat Club's web site), is a society established to discuss and promote the arts. This is the Twenty Fifth Anniversary Year Book. Private printing; 94 pages; 1,000 copies. Includes membership roster with addresses: a veritable Who's Who of authors, editors and illustrators. p 10-11. [EPBLIB]
ANTHOLOGY: Good Reading: Adventure (1930) "Nature's Wisdom" A poem. Edited by Tom Peete Cross, Reed Smith, Elmer C. Stauffer and Elizabeth Collette. Boston: the Athenaeum Press, Ginn and Company. There is a revised edition in 1938. p 311. [EPBLIB]
ANTHOLOGY: World's Best Short Stories of 1930 (1930) "The Gnat" "Sixteen Stories Selected By the Editors of Leading American Magazines Under the Auspices of the New York World" "The town drunk tricks the town miser into becoming the town benefactor, not just once, but time and time again. And when the old drunk dies, only the miser knows to what extent the town ought to be in the deceased's debt." Minton, Balch and Company. New York. Pages 95-109. Harmon, IUPUI [WEB]
