If ever there was an image that needed to be LOL-catted, this is it. Fire away.

Slick Chick plays a tune on the piano—a slick trick that’s been taught her by Prof. Keller Breland, psychologist, as part of his studies in chicken behavior. He’s taught another chicken to tap dance in special shoes!
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Kitten Kast. This little feline needed a bit of human help to keep her nine lives intact. Toffy (that’s her name) caught her paw in the door, and a modern vet prescribed a type of “airplane swing” just like the one used on human patients with broken limbs. Purpose is to stretch muscles so that bone can knit easily.

Scrawny Necks
You can develop a strong, beautiful neck by exercise in your own room. Thin necks, double chins, stringy necks, short necks will become round and smooth. The muscles will become so strong they will quickly relieve any trouble inside or outside of the neck. More than 50.000 men, women and athletes have obtained great results from my book on how to have a strong, beautiful neck. Send for it today, 25c in coin.
Prof. Anthony Barker, D.C. Dept. 2442, 865 6th Av.,N.Y.C.

The Inventor’s Congress Presents—

A comfortable seat which can be folded up pocket size is demonstrated here by Miss Jane Kinney as she visited the National Inventors Trade Fair and Congress in Chicago. Above—Cigarette smokers who constitute a fire hazard when smoking in bed inspired the invention illustrated above. The cigarette holder has its own ash tray and a long tube makes smoking in bed a luxury.
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Apparently there are still people who play florball. Well at least they did in Finland Norway, in 1999.

Florball
Played on a portable court, Florball is a fast, new racquet game. It embraces principles of hockey, tennis, golf and handball. Goals are scored by driving a sponge-rubber ball against eight- inch- high boards at either end of the court and three goals in succession are needed for one point. The ball has to be kept on the floor when serving and close to it at all other times.

According to National Geographic very similar research is still being carried out.

The National Geographic article talks about actually using the rats like smart little robots. The research in this article is supposedly aimed at learning more about electro-shock therapy in insane patients. I’m not really sure how the to are related. Maybe their goal is to make crazy people navigate mazes.

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Radio-Controlled Rats

Rodents with radio sets in their heads get their brains massaged by electric impulses for science.

INSERTING a miniature crystal set beneath the skin of a rat’s head, Dr. Joseph A. Gengerelli, Professor of Psychology at the University of California, has been doing research on the subject of instructing rats by radio. Read the rest of this entry »

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Convertable Jet Helicopter
By GILBERT PAUST

WHEN you see a plane standing on its end in the sky—or on the ground—this will be the one!

A radical new design, just granted a patent, is an airplane that can stick its nose up and act like a helicopter.

The craft has a plane’s wings, ailerons and enclosed fuselage. Three wheels extending straight back to the rear allow vertical takeoff and sit-down.
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If I’d had this when I was your age, I might have my own teeth now

Double mint gum is good for your teeth because, like your body, teeth require lots of daily exercise. The chewing sends new life-blood to roots and nerves. Also beautifies.

The beginning of disposable culture?

PAPER COMBS AFFORD PUBLIC SANITARY UTENSIL

For public places, such as hotels and barber shops, a paper comb has been offered, giving every patron a clean, sanitary article, which, when used once, may be thrown away. Since it is specially treated with a waxlike composition, it slips through the hair as easily as a comb of rubber or bone, and if it is cleaned it will not break easily. Tightly sealed in an “individual” package, it is protected from dirt until needed.

This looks like a really nice toy.

Model Tank Packs a Wallop

EQUIPPED with four electric motors, this control-line tank brings a remarkable note of realism to living-room war games in the home of Alfred J. Brosseau, of Cambridge, Mass., who spent a year and a half building it. Measuring 6″ by 12″, the model can imitate any action of its big brothers.
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LET’S CLAIM THE MOON – NOW!

We can beat the Reds with this plan for shooting our flag to the Moon by rocket.

By Pierre J. Huss

THE RUSSIANS, by their own admission, are getting ready to claim possession of the Moon. By 1970, judging from known Soviet plans for shooting rockets into the skies, the Moon will become sovereign territory of the Soviet Union—a “suburb” of Moscow. Obviously, then, now is the time for us to stake out our claim to the Moon if the interests of free mankind are to be safeguarded for future generations. Otherwise, the Russians will beat us to the punch by grabbing first and talking afterward.
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Bridge’s 2,700 Lights Keep This Man Busy

COMBINING the jobs of human fly, electrician, and lamplighter, John J. Kiernan watches over the 2,700 electric lamps which light the great George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River. In his work of inspecting equipment and replacing burned-out bulbs, he climbs cables, rides along wires in a bo’sun’s chair, dangles high above the river, at times more than 500 feet in the air. His day begins with an inspection of the aircraft warning lights at the top of the great towers; it ends with an examination of the countless navigation lights dotting the anchorage piers. Read the rest of this entry »

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World’s Largest Cars

Detroit still has a long way to go to catch up in size to some of the huge cars built in the past.

IF YOU think the current crop of autos emerging from Detroit is big in size, you have only to look back at some of the earlier motor vehicles which assumed truly large proportions.

As far back as 1908 a vehicle named the State Motor Coach had a 17-foot length and a huge 153.5-inch wheelbase.
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