This scares me. Besides just being a generally bad idea, am I the only one who immediately thinks of the holocaust when I see this?
It’s not quite as scary as this one though.

BAKING AS CURE FOR DOG ILLS IS TRIED IN GERMANY
Ills of dogs are being treated by baking in Germany. For this purpose, and to aid in scientific research, gas ovens have been installed in the Berlin veterinary university’s clinic. The application of heat to animals is said to act in the same way that a steam bath does to the human body.

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HOW TO MAKE A Potato and Banana Band

Novel musical instruments like ocarinas formed from ordinary clay in shape of various fruits and vegetables

By R. H. JENKINS
Professor of Industrial Education Humboldt State Teachers College, Arcata, Calif.

MUSIC has been played on many instruments, but one of the simplest and most novel types can be obtained indirectly from the vegetable garden.

In any music store may be purchased a little instrument known as an ocarina. It is really a whistle made of clay, and, because of its shape, is sometimes known as a “sweet potato.” Though not extremely melodious, it is easily played and affords a great deal of entertainment.
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Do you think you can still buy a mop made of swan skin?

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Time and Money-Saving Tools For Woman’s Workshop in Home

Tester Which Quickly Tells Whether Egg Is Good or Bad by Light Shining through Shell on Mirror that Can Be Seen through Hole in Base

Turning Any Vase into an Attractive, Portable, Electric Light Is Possible with an Adapter that Carries the Socket for the Lamp on a Patented Grip inside of the Neck

Filter and Mixer that Regulates Temperature of Water and May Be Used to Clean Bottles (Left) or Wash Dishes (Right), and Is Attached to Faucets with Rubber Elbows

All the Thrills of a Toboggan and Swing Are Combined in This “Whizzer” Designed to Keep Children at Play in Their Own Yard
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Student Creates Cave of Magic in Cellar

IN A SUBTERRANEAN retreat that he has built in the cellar of his home, John H. Schall, Jr., twenty-three-year-old medical student of Brooklyn, N. Y., pursues his spare-time hobbies of magic and chemistry. Colored lights and ingenious theatrical effects, devised for the entertainment of his friends, provide a setting suited to represent an imaginary meeting place of alchemists and sorcerers.
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Rubber “Actors” Lend Realism to Movies

Comic, Educational and Scientific Pictures Are Worked Out on Miniature Stage with Animated Figures

BY means of a series of ingenious inventions and most painstaking study of anatomy and sculpture, a Los Angeles producer has created a type of animated miniature figures which opens up most interesting fields in the realm of educational and scientific motion pictures.

As in the case of the use of all miniature figures, the process of making motion pictures of this inventor’s figures is a laborious one, each exposure on the film necessitating a re-posing of the “actors.” In producing 500 feet as much as four months is required to set up the various scenes and make the hundreds of poses. The work is not unlike that of the maker of animated cartoons who has to make a new sketch for each exposure in the film.
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