March 3, 2009

CASH CROP (Jun, 1936)

CASH CROP for you every week in the year raising Royal baby birds. Orders now waiting for hundreds of thousands. Easy to raise. You pet your money for them when only 25 days old. Particulars and picture book for three-cent TL S. stamp.

Write PR Company, 602 Howard Street Melrose, Massachusetts. Refer any bank.

He Turns Wooden Indians Into Wampum (Aug, 1954)

He Turns Wooden Indians Into Wampum

Newspaperman Robertson whiffled a redskin on a hunch, now finds his idea is one heap big business, By Frank Lynn ONE day in 1934, Thayne Robertson, a Boise, Idaho newspaperman whose hobby was carving wooden figures, heard that a wooden Indian was wanted for a Western movie in Hollywood. Although he had never turned a piece of wood into an Indian, Robertson was fixed by the challenge and decided to give it a try with the hope that he would sell the carving to the film company.
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March 1, 2009

How to Obtain A Better Looking Nose (Aug, 1930)

How to Obtain A Better Looking Nose

Improve Your Personal Appearance

My free book tells you how I guarantee to improve the shape of your nose by remolding the cartilage and fleshy parts, quickly, safely, and painlessly, or refund your money. The very fine, precise adjustments which only my new patented Model 25 Nose Shaper possesses, moke results satisfactory and lasting. Worn night or day. Over 100,000 users. Send for free book to

M. TRILETY, Pioneer Noscshaping Specialist,
Dept. 200, Binghamton, V. T.

Manpower Flight Greatest April Fool Joke (Jul, 1934)

Manpower Flight Greatest April Fool Joke

PHOTOGRAPHS of a man flying through the air by his own power, the dream of scientists for centuries, completely fooled outstanding U. S. newspapers recently.

Captions on the photographs, coming from Germany, explained that Pilot Erich Kocher took off with a pair of rotor wings strapped to his chest. Kocher supposedly blew into a box which converted the carbon dioxide of his breath into fuel to operate the rotors. The turning rotors developed a vacuum ahead pulling the man through the air.
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MI tests the new Motorette (Jul, 1947)

MI tests the new Motorette

MECHANICAL rollor skates might be one way of describing them. Where-ever you went in southern Florida this year, the but-but-but of the Motorette was constant. When I saw the hundreds of little gas-powered bugs up every alley, street and path, I knew I had a “must” story. This was a Motorette year in Florida—and for good reason.

These little cars, a happy cross between a motorcycle and your kid’s tricycle, were primarily designed for use in mile-long aircraft plant, but they now spell fun with a lot of the practical on the side. They can seat two comfortably and carry enough baggage for a week-end. Read the rest of this entry »

Scientist’s New Theories May Aid in Forecasting Weather Conditions (Jun, 1930)

Scientist’s New Theories May Aid in Forecasting Weather Conditions

THEORIES which may explain the formation of the earth’s surface features, and eventually make it easy to predict both storms and earthquakes, have been evolved after years of research by Halbert P. Gillette, retired engineer and former instructor in science at Columbia University.
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Live Bees Now Mailed in Tiny Cage (Feb, 1932)

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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1932
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Live Bees Now Mailed in Tiny Cage
THE postman now has a new and fairly dangerous article to be carried in his pack, since bees are shipped by parcel post. The bee is very carefully removed from the apiary, placed in a special box cage, which has a small supply of honey to keep the bee alive while in transit. The box has to be of a fair size.

There’s an ART in USING PERFUME (Aug, 1930)

There’s an ART in USING PERFUME

The Final Touch of Charm —Jane Learns the Secret of Feminine Glamour, Internal and External Cleanliness Exercises for Functional Activity

By Lucy Ellen Cummings

DEAR HELEN: Thrilled is too mild a word to express my amazement when I heard of your engagement to Kenneth.

Of course I will be your maid of honor. My dear, I am terribly flattered at such an invitation. Who is going to be best man?

Can I bring up anything from New York by way of helping things along? It is all so sudden that I am sure you must be in a dreadful flurry.

Just wire me if I can do anything at all to help. I am sorry I must miss all the parties. I suppose you will be showered with them. But depend upon my being there the night of rehearsal.
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