So Americans have the thriftiest telephone service in the world and the best way to illustrate that is with a Scottish telephone-man hybrid? What about Scotland? Is their telephone service thrifty too?
It’s a Thrifty Thing… the Telephone
Americans have the world’s best bargain in telephone service. It’s good and it’s cheap. Nowhere else do people get so much service and such good and courteous service at such low cost.
THRIFTY: According to Webster, thrifty means “…Evincing thrift… Characterized by economy and good management . . . Serviceable; useful …”
BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM
I would hire this guy to sharpen my knives in a heartbeat just for the joy of seeing him put-put up the street.
Motorized Trailer Pushes Bicycle
An itinerant knife grinder has devised a “cart-before-the-horse” rig to ease his labors on long-distance bicycle journeys. When he tires of pulling his trailer, with its motor-driven grinding machinery, he hitches the motor to the wheels and the trailer pushes him.
I love the dial on the weather making machine with settings for Fall, Winter, Summer and Spring. Do you think you use that to tell it what season it is? Or what season you want it to be?
Latest Inventions Modernize the Old Fashioned Home
COAL PULVERIZER FOR FURNACE
Maximum heat is extracted from coal by this new pulverizing mill which blows powdered coal into furnace like jet of gas. From the hopper, holding week’s supply, slack coal is conveyed to grinding mill, and thence, powdered, to blower. Thermostat and pres-surestat control operation, saving many dollars in fuel.
COMPRESSED COFFEE
Coffee available in compressed tablet form eliminates messiness. Each cake is divided into four segments, each of which is the proper size for a cup of coffee. Corn syrup cements the coffee grounds together.
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All of the pictures in this article are great, but I particularly like the fact that they gave music classes to pages so that their voices were pleasing to guests.
Housekeeping on a Gigantic Scale
Factory Methods of Standardized Production Applied Even to Serving of Your Meals by Modern Hotels
TO the manager upstairs in his private office, the kitchen of a great hotel is simply a factory where perhaps 10,000 products are made to order in the space of two hours and delivered within fifteen minutes. Quantity production and standardization of service have made housekeeping possible on a wholesale scale. If each individual waiter and bus boy were permitted to perform his tasks in what he believed the best way there would be such a scurrying and running about that hopeless disorder would result. Therefore the great restaurants and hotels have established a system to control every move. Read the rest of this entry »
Just out of curiosity, what would be an example of a laxative that is habit forming?
Constipation Made Husband Draggy
HE just didn’t feel like work or play. Always draggy and worn out—often cross and irritable. But like so many women, his wife knew about Nature’s Remedy (NR Tablets). She put him wise. He found out what an astonishing difference there was in this purely vegetable laxative. Not merely partial relief. Instead thorough, cleansing action that aided in ridding his system of poisonous waste, refreshed him, made him feel like a “million.” Try NR Tablets yourself. Note how gentle they are and non-habit forming. 25 tablets —25 cents at any
drugstore.
NR TO-NIGHT
TOMORROW ALRIGHT
It’s pretty amazing to read about the early days of television. Building a TV without a Cathode Ray Tube is like building a computer without transistors. You CAN do it, but man is it a pain in the ass. The “primitive” models he describes with their “flickering red images” remind me of the Nintendo Virtual Boy.
Where Television Stands Today
In this article the well known owner of station WDGY and the owner-operator of the largest private television station, W9 ICI, gives you a resume of the past year’s progress in this fascinating new development.
by DR. YOUNG – Operator, WDGY
IF YOU were one of the comparatively few men who saw the first few television demonstrations, you no doubt were one of the men who said that television would take some time to perfect.
Doubtless you therefore have an avid curiosity about the progress of television in the last twelve months.
From the first crude, flickering red images—the best that were available at this time last year—we have made the following progress:
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This seems like a poor design. Wouldn’t you want to put all the lock and bell mechanism on the inside of the door to prevent tampering? Also a combination lock with “dozens” of possible combinations does not exactly inspire confidence.
ELECTRIC DOOR LOCK REQUIRES NO KEY
No key is required to operate a novel electric door lock, recently exhibited in Chicago, Ill. The user merely has to push the right buttons selected from a circular row of eight, resembling a telephone dial, and the door will open. Pushing the wrong buttons not only fails to open the door, but sets off an alarm bell that rings for seven minutes. The owner can change the “combination” at will, and dozens of settings are possible.
