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Earn Good Wages in New Gold Rush

by John Edwin Hogg

THERE’S a new gold rush on—one in which you can participate as well as the reasoned prospector, with the reasonable assurance of panning out a fair day’s wages, and with the ever-present possibility of striking a nugget which may vary anywhere from $50 to $5,000 in value. Hundreds of men, thrown out of work by the business depression, are today panning out gold in the thousands of places where it is known to exist in small quantities. Read the rest of this entry »

See-All Body is the unusual feature of a midget car designed by artist Paul Arzens of Paris, France. Hood is Plexiglas and entire car weighs only 225 lbs. Lower portion of body has a mirror effect. Cloth cover rolls forward over top when sun is too hot.

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The THREE DECK CITY is COMING

by UTHAI VINCENT WILCOX

THE three-deck street is coming. Our sons and daughters living in the great cities of tomorrow will have become accustomed to three levels. If they go to the heart of the city on rail they will be on one level. If they take their motors they will speed along on a street level designed exclusively for wheeled vehicles, and if they seek to walk about the heart of the metropolis then they will confine themselves to the foot level.
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121 Rotary Wheels Carved in Gold

ONE hundred and twenty-one cog wheels of solid gold, all turning as one, is one of the latest novelties in the mechanical line. These golden cogs were made for the Rotary clubs of California at an expense of several thousand dollars, the gold alone being worth $1500, without the workmanship, which involved an enormous amount of en-graving. The wheels are each engraved with the name of some city in the United States and Canada.

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I Walked Through FIRE

By Wilmon Menard

That red-glowing pit on the South Sea island fascinated the author. He never thought he’d be lured into the flames.

“YOU’RE going to be sorry!” shouted one spectator as I kicked off my shoes and stood before the fiery pit.

A moment ago I had been just a sightseer standing among the spectators gathered in a sacred grove on the South Sea island of Raiatea to witness a strange fire-walking ceremony. Now I was feverishly getting ready to walk barefooted through the fire myself.
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Daredevil Turns Somersault in Specially Built Automobile
ONE of the outstanding events of the International congress of daredevils held recently in St. Louis, Missouri, was an exhibition of automotive gymnastics. What are automotive gymnastics? Well, take a look at the photo at the right and you’ll see. The machine which is turning the somersaults has an especially sturdy frame built over the top on which the car rolls in performing its antics. Miss Helen McGee, an 18-year-old racing driver of Peoria, Illinois, is the pilot of the dizzy contraption.

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HOW To PREPARE For TOP JOBS In INDUSTRY

By WALTER B. PITKIN
AUTHOR OF “Life Begins at Forty”

YOU men with sound technical training are lucky. As the world picks up speed and pulls out of its long slump, you will be among the first to find profitable employment. Wherever I go, I hear the same story. In Austin, Texas, a year ago, a man wanted eight service men for his electric refrigeration stores—and couldn’t find one anywhere. Last month, out in California, I heard another man fuming because he couldn’t find any high-grade radio service workers. In Buffalo a manufacturer told me he needed top-grade die casters for seven big contracts and was being compelled to pay double the standard wage for the few he had found. I helped him pick up a few more in Detroit and Chicago. Read the rest of this entry »