October 3, 2006

HAIR GROWS! (Mar, 1922)

HAIR GROWS! when our Vacuum Cap is used a few minutes daily. Sent on 60 days FREE trial at our expense. No drugs or electricity. Stops falling hair, cures dandruff. A postal brings illustrated booklet.
MODERN VACUUM CAP CO.
499 Barclay Denver, Colorado

Learn TATTOOING At Home (May, 1952)

Learn TATTOOING At Home
Earn extra MONEY—Tattoo blood types and designs in your community. Splendid opportunity in every town. Prepare in spare time. Practical instructions. Send 25c for details and list of Tattoo Supplies. No obligations.
ZEIS SCHOOL OF TATTOOING • 738 Leslie, Rockford, Ill.

September 25, 2006

The Mahler Treatment (Mar, 1922)

“I Don’t Enjoy Society Because This Unsightly Hair On My Face Makes, Me Look So Ugly”

But there is a way to get rid of unsightly hair, safely, privately, permanently. There is one—and only one—treatment that kills the hair root. After other treatments the hair grows thicker and stronger than ever. The Mahler treatment permanently removes superfluous hair. It can be used in the privacy of your own home at compara tively small expense. Send three stamps today for full particulars sent in plain sealed envelope.
D. J. MAHLER CO.
43-K, Mahler Park, PROVIDENCE, R. I

September 15, 2006

Pet Dog Makes Living Fur Piece (Jun, 1939)

Pet Dog Makes Living Fur Piece

SIGNS reading “No Dogs Allowed” mean nothing to Miss Jeanne Lorraine, of New York City, since she taught her twelve-year-old pet toy collie, Jiggs, to drape himself around her neck and masquerade as a fur piece. The trick first worked on a clerk at a residential hotel that barred pets, and Miss Lorraine has been using it ever since to take her dog through subways, past customs officers, on railroad coaches, and into other places where canine companions are not welcomed. To heighten the illusion, Jigg’s mistress selects costumes in shades of brown that blend with her dog’s coloring, and then attaches a “pinned” flower corsage to the dog’s fur by means of an elastic band around his belly. The animal then promptly relaxes every muscle so that he can be draped gracefully around his owner’s neck, like a fox, mink, or marten skin. For periods up to one hour at a stretch, Jiggs will hardly bat an eye, his only movement being an occasional tail wag, which his mistress covers up with a nonchalant stroke of her hand.

September 10, 2006

STAG – A Man’s Cream For a Man’s Face (Mar, 1922)

MANHOOD- Make Your Face Show it
Every real man wants the clear, rugged, ruddy face of a real he-man; the healthy, clean skin and alert expression that comes from a vigorous life in the open air. All men want it— all women admire it. You can have it.

STAG – A Man’s Cream For a Man’s Face

—is a true facial invigorator and tonic prepared for men. Two minutes’ use brings the red blood tingling to the surface, removes that oily, sallow appearance and leaves the skin clean, clear, firm and with healthy color. It invigorates and hardens the facial muscles and promotes an alert, forceful expression. A sixty-day treatment—with money-back guarantee—will be sent to you for a dollar bill.
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September 8, 2006

Hair Mail Special (Feb, 1949)

Hair Mail Special

Baldness beating you down? Don’t lose your head—mail-order a scalp from Max Factor, movie makeup man—and brush your troubles away!

  1. Bashful about that shining pate for years. Milton Jones gets mail kit to order hair.
  2. Following Max Factor’s instruction booklet, Milton x-marks a spot for his new hairline.
  3. Then he stretches a wire across his head to get the natural dimensions for a hairy top.
  4. Not much business for the barber, but Jones still finds hair he can clip for a sample.
  5. Milton’s mail order is put on a properly shaped hair block at Factor’s wig workshop.
  6. The wig dresser combs out the toupee to see that every hair looks like the real thing.
  7. The postman brings the toupee and Milton rushes to a mirror to try on his new hair.
  8. That handsome head of hair puts Milton in “top” shape for big business at his office.

August 31, 2006

Freckleproof Cape Protects Bather (Apr, 1940)

Freckleproof Cape Protects Bather
Fair Floridians who fear freckles have adopted the odd hooded cape pictured in the photograph below, taken at an Atlantic beach resort. Made of a polka-dot print fabric, the freckleproof cape has an attached hood equipped with built-in sun glasses to further protect the wearer from the effects of strong sunlight.

TORSO CUFF LINKS (Dec, 1950)

TORSO CUFF LINKS
for the man who has “everything”. Gold plate on Sterling 13.50. 14K gold 60.00. In Sterling
$12.50 a pair.
All taxes and postage included. Another exclusive by mail from Pee Wee House
Culver City 13, Cal.

August 30, 2006

27,000 RPM Tie Clip (May, 1962)

POWER TIE CLIP by L. M. Cox Co., Santa Ana Calif., is an operating internal combustion engine. The motor has a displacement of only .01 cubic inch, with a piston hardly larger than the head of a pin. It can fly a very small model airplane, however. As a tie clip it is decorative but non-operable unless you carry with you the 1-1/2-volt battery to attach to its glow head and a drop or two of fuel. Rotary valve engine does 27,000 rpm. Gift-packed, with manual, $8.

Ad: GETTING THIN TO MUSIC (Mar, 1922)

It’s Sweating to the Oldies, back before they were oldies.

GETTING THIN TO MUSIC

Reducing Reduced to a Science

ARE you bulky of body, and heavy of heart? Would you really like to reduce? Will you accept without cost the proof that you can? Then read what this man has done! Not long: ago, in Chicago, it was stated that the scientific secret of weight regulation had been discovered. Wallace, a leading physical director, had worked seventeen years to make the announcement. But it did not take long to prove it was true.
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August 28, 2006

Night-Driving Glasses Use Wire-Mesh Lenses (Nov, 1940)

Night-Driving Glasses Use Wire-Mesh Lenses
“Blinders” of wire mesh in new spectacles designed for night driving are said to shield the eyes from the glaring headlights of oncoming cars. Mounted in an eyeglass frame, the screening absorbs enough light to prevent retinal fatigue, without interfering with safe vision.

August 12, 2006

Rubber Gown Is Blow-Out Attire (Mar, 1940)

Rubber Gown Is Blow-Out Attire
A CURIOUS evening gown, made entirely of rubber, was one of the outstanding costumes worn at a costume ball held not long ago in Akron, Ohio, a center of the rubber-manufacturing industry. Above, the wearer of the gown is pictured having the hem of her unusual dress vulcanized.

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