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What Are the Facts About FM?

A few years ago, prominent radio engineers “proved” by mathematical and other means that the periodic banging and crackling of static in your loudspeaker could never really be eliminated. They were wrong. For the development of a system of radio broadcasting known as FM (frequency modulation) has not only conquered the static bugaboo, but has given birth to other innovations that may well cause a revolution in America’s $4,000,000,000 radio industry. What are the facts about FM? This article answers the questions most frequently asked.

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Sounds like a Web2.0 company to me. I’ll bet if we called it Funstr we could get it funded.

“Funster”
The New Amazing 20 way-play HOME GYM SET FOR INDOORS OR OUTDOORS
BUILD IT YOURSELF OF WOOD
The unit includes, besides these illustrations, a chairo-plane scoot-a-round, gym bar and various combinations of play thrills. ALL PARTS ARE INTERLOCKING
AND REQUIRE ONLY FROM 10 TO 50 SECONDS TO CONVERT FROM ONE PLAYTHRILLER TO ANOTHER.

An Ideal Xmas Gift For All The Children

Twelve sheets of pictures with drawings and instructions for all twenty ways for ONLY $2.00

SEND FOR YOURS NOW
HIGHLAND MFG. CO.
Cor. Garfield & 4th - Highland, Indiana

“I Don’t Enjoy Society Because This Unsightly Hair On My Face Makes, Me Look So Ugly”

But there is a way to get rid of unsightly hair, safely, privately, permanently. There is one—and only one—treatment that kills the hair root. After other treatments the hair grows thicker and stronger than ever. The Mahler treatment permanently removes superfluous hair. It can be used in the privacy of your own home at compara tively small expense. Send three stamps today for full particulars sent in plain sealed envelope.
D. J. MAHLER CO.
43-K, Mahler Park, PROVIDENCE, R. I

Flashlight Weapon Invented
A COMBINATION flashlight gun has been invented by V. Merifield, of the Los Angeles, Calif., police department. At the pressing of a trigger the device ejects a spray of ammonia or gas from a jet to disable any suspect who might attempt to draw a weapon when the flashlight is aimed.

The novel gun weighs only six ounces, has fewer than a dozen parts, and is practically indestructible. Jet and light are controlled by separate triggers. One filling provides 20 shots of gas.

Einstein Invents Automatic Electric Eye Camera

PROFESSOR ALBERT EINSTEIN, famed for his theories on relativity and the universe, is a practical inventor as well. The U. S. Patent Office has granted the noted physicist and Dr. Gustav Bucky, consulting radiologist at New York University, who is co-inventor, a patent covering a Light Intensity Self-Adjusting Camera. Professor Einstein also holds British and American patents on improvements in gas-burning refrigerators and Dr. Bucky is inventor of a diaphragm used in X-ray photography. The camera device uses a photo-electric cell which automatically increases or decreases light entering a camera by moving a tiny light filter graduated from zero to complete transparency.

I think that an “Eggs Laid While You Wait” place would make a killing in Brooklyn today.

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His Business is Laying An Egg

Everybody knows a tree grows in Brooklyn, but it took Murray Weiss’ egg farm to prove that hens could thrive there, too.

By H. W. Kellick

THERE’S a chicken ranch deep in the heart of Brooklyn where hens lay eggs while you wait.

More than 3,500 white leghorns working on the fowl line in this indoor farm deliver about 130 dozen eggs daily. And they are sold direct to the consumer.

The indoor farm, known as the Weiss-Way Egg Farm, is an idea developed by Murray Weiss. A former farmer and graduate in husbandry of the New Jersey State Agricultural School, Weiss conducts his business on a purely scientific system.

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Nothing interesting, I just thought the picture was great.

Wallpaper For Picture Backgrounds

WALLPAPER is inexpensive, colorful, and picturesque—in short, it is ideal as a background for portraits, still life and table-top set-ups. It is best used when mounted on rolls. Use cardboard tubing of fairly large diameter, not less than 2 in. across. Short tubes can be lengthened by splicing two sections together over a length of narrower tubing.

Before cutting the roll of wallpaper into lengths, make sure that the patterns will match. To do this, first cut a strip to the desired length and lay it out on the floor or table. Then unroll the next strip alongside the first and shift it up or down until the pattern matches.

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Around the World on the New Airways of the Seas

By Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker

This noted flier predicts that business men will fly from New York to Canton, China, in a week, a trip that now takes a month. He foresees dirigibles flying around the world for weeks without stopping to land. Read this exclusive, revealing story.

IN MY opinion trans-Atlantic service via Bermuda and the Azores will be in existence within three years with heavier-than-air planes and without stop by dirigibles. Trans-Pacific service is also feasible today with Douglas airplanes.

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This scares me. Didn’t people used to add anti-freeze to wine to make it taste better? I wonder what this crap was made of.

Age Your Beverage 5 YEARS IN 10 DAYS
with AD-AGE [Not an Extract]
GENUINE “Aged in the Wood” flavor. Perfect color and mellow taste. Ad-Age is a specially prepared compound containing seven different kinds of plant substances. Great help to home beverage makers. $1.50 can, enough for 4 gallons. Special price 85c P. P. Big Catalog FREE of home bottling supplies.
CONSUMERS SUPPLY CO.. Dept.300P. 226 W.Superior St, Chicago

Ice Finger, SPINNING COFFEE POT Make HOME TASKS More PLEASANT

PIE PLATE RIM, easily snapped in place, prevents juices from running over edge into oven, allows baking of extra-thick pastries.

DRAWER OVEN for electric range works like filing cabinet, eliminating stooping to inspect baking. Compartment slides out on roller bearings, rear panel keeping heat in oven if drawer is out.

ICE MASSAGE finger closes pores of skin, stimulates circulation same as piece of ice does, without annoying drip of water. Metal tube is filled with refrigerant solution, and cooled by storing in icebox just before using.

SPINNING COFFEE POT whirls hot water through ground coffee at high velocity, making coffee from hot water in from 1 to 4 minutes, depending upon
flavor and strength preferred.

HEAT BOUNCER in form of thin aluminum sheet slips back of radiator, throws heat out into room by reflection from foil.

Compressed AIR MOTOR Runs Car

EITHER the era of “free air” is about to come to an end, or the cost of motoring is about to be reduced to practically nothing. In an amazing demonstration conducted recently in Los Angeles a standard automobile chassis, powered with a newly-developed compressed air motor, whizzed around the city streets at not one cent of cost to the driver for fuel.

The engine, which is the result of six years of research by Roy J. Meyers, resembles in general appearance a radial airplane motor. It is mounted in an upright position in the same space occupied by a gasoline motor in standard cars.

When I was first getting this blog started up I was very close to calling it Self-jerking fishing rod just because it had such a nice ring to it.

Self-jerking fishing rod has hair-triggered spring that snaps up catch at slightest nibble.