Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1917 — Tess Marshall Stories Are Now Coming Thick and Fast. [ARTICLE]

Tess Marshall Stories Are Now Coming Thick and Fast.

Tess Marshall, former Rensselaer boy and now of Medford, Oregon, is steadily gaining fame as a writer and forging to the fore and bids fair to take a place among the meet renowned magazine writers of the country. Several different magazines in the country are using his stories now and jyith his steadily increasing efficiency he is able to turn them out faster and come nearer to supplying the dem ands of the magazine publishers. In the June number of the American magazine, one of the best publications in the United States, Mr. Marshall has a story entitled, “Vagabond or Gentleman,” which is a short story, with illustrations by Booth Hansson. It is a story of a tramp and his dog, in which Mr. Marshall features his own pet dog, Peter, and the latter’s characteristics. In the May 15th Top Notch Tess has a book length novel entitled “Out of the Past,” which is a powerful tale of adventure, concerning sea and shore. In speaking of Mr. Marshall the editor of the American says that he is a new writer secured by that magazine, which is ever on the alert for good ones, and is of the opinion that in securing the Marshall stories his company has made a ten strike. Bootn Tarkington, Jack Lait and Sophie Kerr are eminent writers employed by the American publishing company. Another short story by Tess will appear in the August number of the American.