Cancer Treated With Stale Butter
RANCID butter, or rather the chemical called butyric acid which bacteria form in fresh butter, is the newest cancer treatment reported in England by a famous surgeon.
The acid of rancid butter is not to be eaten or injected but is applied directly to the cancerous growth. Read the rest of this entry »
Ceiling Movies ROUT Fears of Patient
A BOSTON dentist has discovered a new sort of “anesthetic,” in the form of motion pictures, which he claims is so effective that patients refuse to leave the chair at the conclusion of their dental work. Read the rest of this entry »
Young Detective Smashes Police Ring
MANY an officer saw stocky, youthful Wallace Jamie about the St. Paul police station the late winter and early spring of 1935 and laughed up their sleeves at his activities.
By midsummer that year, however, they wished sincerely in their hearts they never had heard of him.
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“FLIVVER” Expedition Crosses Dreaded Desert
Using three Ford cars with special truck bodies, an expedition headed by Maj. Ralph Bagnold of the British Army recently crossed the Libyan desert, stretching westward from the Nile River in Egypt. Members of the party are shown above. Note the tubes in the radiator tops, in which steam from boiling radiators is condensed and saved. Read the rest of this entry »
Jap Auto Is Traveling Postoffice
A POSTOFFICE is always at hand when passengers arrive or embark from any ship at the Japanese seaport village of Kobe. An enterprising postmaster has set up offices in the rear of an odd automobile. He follows the crowds around the water front, selling postal supplies to sailors and travellers. The car is powered with a motorcycle engine.
Sham WAR Demonstrates New Air Attack Strategy
by CAPT. T. R. PHILLIPS, U. S. Army
Immense fleets of fighting planes directed in battle by radioed orders from a flying general—deadly new attack planes carrying a quarter ton of bombs and capable of firing 3000 shots a minute—these are a few of the latest developments in aerial warfare demonstrated in an amazing sham air war. Don’t fail to read this authoritative article if you take pride in keeping informed on Uncle Sam’s defense system. Read the rest of this entry »
Eight Wheeled Armored Car Is Equipped With Wireless
THE Tank Corps of the British army has recently adopted an armored car which is equipped with eight wheels and a long distance wireless sending and receiving set. Read the rest of this entry »
Tiniest Car in Germany is this miniature auto equipped with a one-hp engine. Measuring 2-1/2 yards long, it goes 27 mph and costs less than $300. Germans don’t need a license to drive it. Fend-Flitzer, Rosenheim, Germ.
New TV Projector shown at a recent British exhibition, allows viewer to regulate size of screen image, as in the photos of girl below. The projector consists of a set of lenses and adjustable mirrors. It uses a two-and-a-half inch tube instead of the usual 12-inch type. The two tubes are set up at lower right for comparison.
10 ways to Make $500
A little time on your hands can be a lot of cash in the bank—and with no strain at all on your natural talents.
BY RAY JOSEPHS
COULD you use an extra $500 to get that new car, television or power equipment you’ve always dreamed about? And would you like to do it without robbing your bank or someone else’s cash register? A miracle is your easiest answer. Read the rest of this entry »
This is a bit of a stretch.
THE TRIAL IS NEVER OVER
GOOD-WILL is the disposition of the customer to return to the place where he has been served well—
U. S. Supreme Court.
TO OUR FRIENDS
We do not believe that any advertising copy man could have penned a neater and more trenchant definition than this decision of the Supreme Court. Read the rest of this entry »
The World’s Strangest AIRPLANE
WHAT is most certainly one of the strangest airplanes ever built is shown on this page and on this month’s cover of Modern Mechanics and Inventions. The plane, which its designer, Paul Maiwurm of San Diego, California, has ailed the Fly worm, will have no propellers to pull it through the air Read the rest of this entry »
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