Sometimes a cigar is just a big-ass cigar.
FORTY-POUND CIGAR IS VALUED AT SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS
What is said to be one of the largest cigars ever made was shown at an eastern tobacco exposition. It was rolled from broadleaf tobacco from the Connecticut valley and is five feet in length. The value of the tobacco used is estimated at $75.
This is kind of sad. It almost warrants it’s own unicorn chaser.
BULL WITH SINGLE HORN IS MODERN UNICORN
What might be called a modern unicorn has been produced by Dr. W. F. Dove, University of Maine biologist. From a day-old bull calf, Dr. Dove removed the two small knots of tissue which normally develop into horns. These horn buds he transplanted in the center of the bull’s forehead, thereby inducing the growth of a single massive horn. The bull, now nearly three years old, has developed much of the proud bearing ascribed to the mythical unicorn.
VOODOO DO-IT-YOURSELF
IF YOU know somebody who always beats you at croquet or who likes to swat you on the head and call you, “Old aardvark”—and who doesn’t know someone like that?— then what you need is a voodoo kit. With this you’ll spend many happy hours sticking needles into a little doll and pretending it’s your playmate. Voodoo is West Indian for black magic, which is the art of inflicting pain, sickness, death and bad luck by remote control.
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I’ve read this ad three times now and I still have no idea what they are saying. Though I must say that the “good” future they present sounds a lot like what post-singularity transhumans are supposed to be like:
“Will the future know a superior, Godlike race of humans—each a genius and each the masterful creation of an unerring formula”
If the formula is unerring, wouldn’t everyone be identical? How is this different from the second option? Also, how can everyone be a genius? That’s sort of like saying everyone will be above average.
And why does the creation of life always require giant tesla coils?
Will Man Create Life?
DOES THE SECRET of life belong to Divinity alone?
Will Nature’s last frontier give way to man’s inquiring mind? Can man become a creator, peopling the world with creatures of his own fancy? Was the ancient sage right, who said: “To the Gods the Soul belongs, but to man will belong the power of Life”? Will the future know a superior, Godlike race of humans—each a genius and each the masterful creation of an unerring formula—or will Soulless beings, shorn of the feelings which have bound mortals together in understanding, dominate the earth?
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This is a really weird ad and nowadays it would probably be considered child porn. The message I got was: “Feed your kids Cocomalt so you don’t have to send them to visit pervy sunlamp guy.” And what is going on with the long line of half naked kids in dragging sleds through the snow? They look like they’re from a Siberian version of Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

Now Your Child Can “Drink Sunshine” 3 times a day
ONE OF SUNSHINE’S GREAT BENEFITS in this Vitamin D food
WE HAVE been called “a nation of sun-worshippers.” By sunlamps, by exposure, by every means possible we try to obtain as much sunshine as possible.
Here is one of the important reasons why: In the rays of the sun there exists a force which, acting upon the body, produces that precious element—Vitamin D. This Vitamin D enables the body to utilize efficiently the food-calcium and food-phosphorus in the development of sound, even teeth — straight, strong bones— well-formed, husky bodies. Of all the many great benefits of sunshine, this is perhaps one of the most significant.
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