What drug do you think it was? Meth?
SAFE DRUG TAKES OFF TWO POUNDS A WEEK
Discovery of a drug that enables overweight persons to reduce safely without exercise is reported to the American Medical Association by two California research workers. Experiments conducted by the discoverers, Dr. W. C. Cutting and M. L. Thayer of the Stanford Medical Laboratories, show that daily doses of the drug will remove two pounds of weight a week.
Marsh A. Marshall? What a name.
Swimming Doll
A little wooden doll is teaching Ft. Lauderdale swimming pupils how to do everything but sink.
SWIMMING dolls are helping Marsh A. Marshall of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., to teach up to 60 weekly pupils the A-B-C’s of natation. A retired dentist, Marshall carved the figures himself to use as demonstrations of the various swimming strokes and techniques. The doll in the pictures is named Leander after the youth who swam the Hellespont: a female doll is called Florence Chadwick. •
This is back when Ma Bell was a proud monopoly. “One Policy, One System, Universal Service”. I’m starting to think that Tolkien lifted his whole “one ring” idea from AT&T.
The Road to Home
Though written faithfully, his letters from home seemed to have had a way of arriving at his hotel in one city just after he had left for the next —and of never catching up.
Three weeks passed—business conferences, long night journeyings on sleepers, more conferences—with all too little news from home.
Then he turned eastward. In his hotel room in Chicago he still seemed a long way from that fireside in a New York suburb. He reached for the telephone—asked for his home number.
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I’m not sure what potatoes cost in 1932, but it can’t have been enough to make this worthwhile.
Grocer Builds “X-ray” to Sell Customers Flawless Spuds
WHAT is more embarrassing to a housewife who boasts of her cooking than to have her mashed potatoes turn out black, or to have her guest slice into a deliriously deliciously baked cobbler and find it with a black cavity?
Confronted with complaints from housewives on bad potatoes, an Ames, Iowa, groceryman rigged up a potato X-ray, or candling device to inspect choice potatoes before they go to the fastidious customer.
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It seems like at least half of the craft projects in this country used to be about making crude representations of ethnic stereotypes.
Laughable Lamps
By KENNETH MURRAY
HOME decoration isn’t a subject to make light of, but here’s a way to do it nevertheless. These comical lamps are formed from 7-1/2- and 10-watt bulbs of the round, outside-colored variety, usually sold for 10 cents. More powerful lamps would be unsatisfactory because the novelties are not for general illumination—merely to add a spot of live color here and there.
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