MOTORIZE YOUR BOY’S WAGON FOR $18.70

Make if REALLY USEFUL and LOTS OF FUN for him

Boys from five to twelve safely run and enjoy a motorized wagon. Learn many lessons they can use later. Entire cost only $18.70, If you now have wagon and motor. Any small gas engine is suitable. Price includes all pulleys, belts, shafts, and instant clutch. We have new wagons and motors available. WAGON CAN BE CONVERTED IN LESS THAN AN HOUR.

With a small ELECTRIC motor, wagon makes enjoyable and never failing entertainment in the recreation room. Can be safely operated by a four year old. Read the rest of this entry »

The radio that you tune by opening and closing the fan looks awesome and the lobster claw radio is genius. I can’t believe that no one has had the brilliant idea to cram an MP3 player into one yet. It seems like in the mid twenties the fun thing to do was to stuff a radio into anything and everything you could. This reminds me of the current fascination for making crazy things that plug into a USB port.

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Latest Fads, Fancies and Novelties to Be Found in the World of Radio

The Dentist’s Chair Has Lost Its Terrors for This Little Chap, Who Forgets the Ache of His Tooth When He Clamps on the Head Phones

A Real Radio Fan; the Set Is Tuned by Opening and Closing the Leaf Coils

Parisiennes May Now Enjoy Radio Programs While Strolling along the Boulevards, by Using the Umbrella Set Devised by a Paris Inventor
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This guy is pretty good.

Burnt-Match Portraits Made as Novel Hobby

Making portraits with burnt matches is the unusual spare-time hobby of H. E. Moulds, a hairdresser of Worthing, England. Building up the faces of his subjects by placing matches side by side, Moulds uses the burnt ends to provide the shading for hair and facial features. One of his unusual works of art is a picture of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. He is shown at the left putting the finishing touches on a match portrait of Winston Churchill, British statesman.

The headline kind of reminds me of this old ad.

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“Come with Me on My Jeepmarine”

Submarine holidays are made possible by a peacetime adaptation of the British “torpedo built for two”

By WALTER NUNN O’BONDIE
Lieutenant, R.N.V.R.

EVERYBODY seems to be thinking of flying for fun after the war. Many Americans apparently hope to swap their flivvers for helicopters and spend their spare time dangling from the sky, munching hot dogs bought at a convenient blimp filling station. But not for me! My wife and I are going to spend our week ends touring the bottom of the sea on our jeepmarine. We plan to explore caves and grottoes on the ocean floor. We’ll park our tandem underwater motorbike on the barnacled deck of some ancient wreck, and search for doubloons and pieces of eight. When time permits, we’ll ship our jeepmarine to tropic seas and go riding through coral groves, dismounting occasionally to look for pearls. At least, we’ll be sure to return with a handsome bath sponge of our own plucking.
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“Caboose” Is Tombstone

WHEN Charles E. Witting was killed in an accident in the line of duty while working on the Pennsylvania Railroad, on which system he was employed for eight years, an unusual monument was erected to his memory in the graveyard of Urichsville, Ohio, his native town.

Designed after the old-fashioned type of freight caboose, the headstone is mute evidence of the work Witting so much loved. Members of the Urichsville chapter of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, of which Witting was a member, helped to erect the unique marker.
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