Earthbound Play Spaceship Made From Aircraft Drop Tank

This earthbound rocket for outer-space-minded youngsters was made from a surplus aircraft fuel tank of the drop type, plywood, and miscellaneous switches and instruments of no value, for fake controls. Read the rest of this entry »

Laundry Service for Dolls
Little girls in New York City who are too busy raising a family of dolls to think of washing all their dolls’ clothes can now send them out. A commercial laundry furnishes a tiny laundry bag and a special doll laundry slip for the child to list doll clothes sent out and check them when they are returned along with the family wash.

“Look! Real SMOKE! Real Railroad Whistle!”

Hey, fellows!-don’t miss the LIONEL catalog and Sound Effects Record

Sure!— you’re going to build a model pike of your own! Sure! you’re going to have LIONEL locos and rolling stock, because ONLY LIONEL gives you power plus realism! Only LIONEL locos puff real smoke with action of driving rods) Only LIONEL Locos have built-in real R.R. whistle! And to build a real pike get the LIONEL
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Boys Can Have a Carnival of Fun with This Simply Built High Striker

By George S. Greene

THIS diminutive “high striker,” to call it by the correct carnival name, will compete with baseball in interest when boys gather on the sand lot or in the back yard. It requires but little ground space and is just the thing, along with homemade “rides” and chutes, for staging a successful children’s carnival.

In all but size the striker follows the construction of professional carnival and fair models. The similarity can be further carried out by offering big, long chocolate cigars for ringing the bell, if prizes of any kind are considered necessary.
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NEW MERRY-GO-ROUND OF MIDGET AUTOS

A merry-go-round of toy automobiles is proving a popular amusement in Germany. A light steel frame is pivoted on a central hub holding all the midget autos an equal distance from the center. The children do their own pedaling and steering and can govern the speed at which they go. In a few installations an electric motor turns the frame, but the ones in which the children pedal their own machines are reported to be the more popular with the youngsters.

Midget Bus Travels 15 m.p.h.

PATTERNED after its big brothers of the highways, a midget passenger bus has been constructed by L. P. Wright, a garage-man in St. Paul, Minnesota. The tiny bus cost about $350 to build.

The miniature vehicle has a seating capacity of nine small children. Dual electric motors, operating off four storage batteries, are located beneath the hood and enable the bus to attain a speed of 15 m.p.h.

The 11-foot bus is complete in many respects and features a horn, headlights, and steering mechanism. Small balloon tires give the vehicle excellent riding qualities. Needless to state, the bus is extremely popular with local tots, many of whom do not even have to stoop to enter the door.

Toys Run on Compressed Air
Driven by nothing more than air, these two toys can speed along at 15 m.p.h. for 125 feet. The plunger in the rear sends compressed air through tubing to a radial motor, where it is forced out through tiny holes. The released air sounds like a gas engine’s exhaust in the racer and makes a putt-putt noise while spinning the rotor of the taxiing helicopter. The toys are made by Mot-Air-Ette, of Chicago.

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You wouldn’t think that an article about rubber band tricks would be offensive, but on the second page (second paragraph) there is a trick called “nigger in the wood pile”.

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Amazing Stunts with Rubber Bands

By Sam Brown

Here are some amusing parlor tricks, which require no elaborate equipment, for entertaining your friends.

ABOUT the best trick ever performed with a rubber band is the one concerning the back of the school teacher’s neck and a juicy wad of paper. But there are others . . .

For something absurdly simple—or is it? —try this one: Take a stout rubber band and snap it over your fingers and thumb at the first joint. The idea is: Can you, using this one hand only, work the rubber band down to your wrist? Try it! Dollars to doughnuts you’ll get the most desperate, useless feeling when you get the rubber band about half-way down and find that despite all your finger waggling it will go no further than the middle of your palm.
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Novel Toy Bus Makes Stops To Discharge “Passengers”

A novel toy bus available scoots along the floor, flashes a red light rearward, stops automatically, opens its front door, waits while a bell rings, closes the door, and starts on its way again. Modeled after streamline buses of the type used on transcontinental runs. The toy has a spring motor, solid-rubber wheels, and front and rear rubber bumpers.

THREE-WHEELED SKATES HAVE RUBBER TREADS
Rubber-covered balls of fiber replace steel wheels in roller skates of new design. The three-wheeled skates are said not to mar floors or carpets, and to be virtually silent. According to the maker, they require no lubrication, and are lighter in weight than ordinary steel skates. The illustration shows the standard size and also a smaller model, with front wheels set well forward to prevent overbalancing, intended for the use of very young children.

Tin-Can Railroad

When a Georgia railroad man retired, he had to do something “to keep from going crazy” and naturally he turned to trains for his hobby. Using ordinary tin cans as raw material, W. E. Chester, 86-year-old Atlantan, has built himself a realistic collection of locomotives in his back yard. Occasionally, to add variety, he produces weather-vanes and whirligigs, using the always-available tin cans, but most of his time is spent fashioning locomotives of various sizes and types.