This stuff was a bit harder before photoshop.

view additional pages

HOW TO MAKE INCREDIBLE PICTURES

LAUGH-PROVOKING trick pictures are fun to make and more fun to show. Contrary to popular belief, such pictures can be produced by the amateur photographer, even though he has only limited equipment. Trick shots involve two steps: cutouts and pasteups. The equipment required for them, in addition to a camera and enlarger, is a sharp knife, a sheet of clear glass large enough to hold an 8 x 10 glossy print, and a piece of heavy cardboard of the same size.
Read the rest of this entry »

Fun At The Dinner Table
SOUP serenades, spaghetti entanglements, corn-on-the-cob wrestling and other embarrassments at meal time may never be eliminated, but Russell Oakes, a Waukesha, Wis., business man, got so amused thinking they might be that he discovered a new hobby devising dizzy devices to put eating on a mechanical basis.
Read the rest of this entry »

I’m going to hazard a guess that this attempt to defeat gravity did not meet with success.

Yet Another Attempt to Defeat the Law of Gravity
THE recent success of the Cierva Autogiro has brought forth a deluge of attempts to defeat the law of gravity. Harry Cordy, a Los Angeles inventor, is about to introduce into a startled aviation world a model of his idea of just what an airplane should be.

This plane of the helicopter type is characterized by a new form of propeller which is said to produce a superior degree of lift and thus effect a true vertical takeoff or landing.

TOBACCO SLAVERY
Brings Ruined Health, Wasted Dollars
The most inveterate smoker or chewer will positively HATE tobacco in any form within one week, using KILL-TOBAC. Complete, guaranteed treatment costs only $1 postpaid. KILL-TOBAC is not a drug- or internal medicine. Leaves no bad effects. KILL-TOBAC ends the craving- simply and quickly. Men and women welcome this new, easy way to freedom from the Tobacco habit.

Send $1 for complete treatment and money-back guarantee.
Salesmen Wanted to Introduce Kill-Tobac
KILL-TOBAC REMEDY CO. 610B Kasota Bldg. Minneapolis, Minn.

NOVEL FLAG FORMED OF COLOR-PRODUCING GERMS

Colonies of bacteria provided the colors for a living American flag grown in Montclair, N. J., by a bacteriologist. The germs were made to perform their remarkable trick by tracing the outline of the flag on a shallow glass dish, with needles previously dipped in germ cultures. The dish bearing the bacteria outline was then placed in a incubator. There the bacteria of various colors multiplied and rapidly filled in the proper areas of the flag. The blue field was grown from a pigment-forming disease germ, while a bacillus found in mountain streams provided the red stripes. The white stripes and the stars were supplied by a non-pigment-forming bacteria found in milk. The flag, when the colonies of bacteria had attained the proper growth, measured about six inches long. Miss Roberta Love, Montclair bacteriologist, is shown above, holding the flag during an early stage of its development. Even in its unfinished state, the resemblance of the bacteria colonies to the regulation flag was readily apparent.

Some of these are great. I love the coin-op hair curler and the stylin sippy cup. Plus that pedal powered merry-go-round looks like a blast.

view additional pages

Sixteen Needs Met by Ingenuity

• With these shears you can clip grass without tiring the hands. A jointed bar connects the blades, which open and close as the up and down motion of the grips bends or straightens the joint
• A cent in the slot, and in two minutes the “hair-curling automat,” invented in Europe, electrically heats the attached iron. The hotel guest, aided by the mirror, does the rest
• To remove a broken-headed screw, drill a hole in it, drive in the fluted end of this tool and twist the square end two or three times with a wrench
• Hay is cut and delivered into a tube by this German machine. Air driven through the tube carries the hay to the loft and automatically stores it
• Read the rest of this entry »

view additional pages

Guinea Pigs Test New Beauty Aids

GUINEA PIGS are partly responsible for the beauty of many of the glamorous faces that flash across the screen of your neighborhood movie theater. Tests with these patient little rodents have even saved the film careers of actors and actresses whose skin reacted unfavorably to ordinary studio make-up. Now applied to the manufacture of cosmetics for the general public, similar tests are guarding the beauty and health of millions.
Read the rest of this entry »

Some of these look surprisingly modern. Particularly, the front end of the Corvette Nomad looks a lot like a current Thunderbird.

view additional pages

Detroit’s Latest Plastic Fantasies

Built to be seen but not sold, they are the banners in front of this year’s automotive circuses.

BONNEVILLE SPECIAL

Built for speed, this Pontine racer has knock-off hub caps and safety belt for driver. It is one of 11 rein forced-plastic cars pictured on this and the two following pages. Stylists’ pipe dreams, they were socked into form largely for exhibition at auto shows. You couldn’t buy one for a million dollars. They are not for sale.
Read the rest of this entry »

This church would be way cooler if they just left it like this. It looks awesome.

Church Has Rod Framework
DESIGNED to be resistant to termites, fire and earthquakes, St. Augustine’s Catholic Church being erected in Culver City, Calif., is the first structure ever to be built with an entire framework, walls, roof and floor joists constructed of steel rods.

Under a patent issued to A. M. McClellan, all joints are made by wrapping vertical steel rod members around horizontal members and arc welding them. Frame work was fabricated by State Steel Products Co., Los Angeles.

Tack Hammer Has Automatic Feed
AN AUTOMATIC staple- driving hammer operating like and resembling an automatic pistol drives staples home with a single blow when the trigger is pulled. The device holds a clip of fifty tacks at one time.

Yes, I know the ASCII standard wan’t established until 1967, but it’s the same general idea.

Typewriter Artist Produces Pictures Like Tapestry
Pictures that resemble tapestry are produced with a typewriter by Rosaire J. Belanger, a mill worker in Saco, Me. Belanger first draws a pencil sketch on a sheet of paper, then inserts it in his typewriter and fills in the sketch with various characters to produce shading and outlines. With carbon paper, he transfers the picture onto graph paper, and copies it on blank paper.

You’d think this might sell better if they just changed the headlines to: “Rub Naked Women for Money. Our Free Movies Show You How!”

YOU CAN BE A PHYSIOTHERAPIST

Be Your Own Boss Have Nicer Work

Earn More Money

Be a Person of Importance in Your Community

Here is a new, easily learned profession, originated by the sudden new demand for drugless methods of healing. The scientific name for the new calling is “Physiotherapy.” It requires no unusual manual skill and needs no supervised clinical practice. Hence any man or woman of mature intelligence can quickly master the fundamentals and enter this dignified profession, where the demand is urgent and the fees large.
Read the rest of this entry »