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GIANTS of the SPEED WORLD

Millions are spent by sportsmen in building speed marvels to annihilate space. This authoritative article reveals the secrets of these giants of the speed world and the terrific costs encountered by sportsmen who build them.
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Are You Giving Your Wife The Companionship She Craves?

YOU may be giving your wife all the love and care you are able to. You may have given her a good home, security, many of the conveniences all women yearn for. But is she completely satisfied? Are you giving her what she most expected on the day that you married her? Are you giving her the full companionship of the man she loves? Read the rest of this entry »

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“Radio City” will be Marvel of Architecture

A glittering city within a city, covering three square blocks and costing the staggering total of $250,000,000—that’s the “Radio City” which will begin next month to rise in New York, the project of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Details of this architectural marvel are set forth in this article.
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Yeah, because that will work better than just adding a flange.

Tilting Ash Tray Eliminates Fire Dangers

EQUIPPED with a self-tilting mechanism, this ash tray makes it impossible for a cigarette to burn down so short that the weight of the over-hanging end causes the cigarette to over-balance and fall off the tray and burn the table or rug. If the cigarette is allowed to burn for any length of time while on the rest, its heat causes a spring within the tray to expand and tilt, thus dumping the burning butt into the tray. This tray in use eliminates not only the danger of damaging furniture as the result of forgotten cigarettes, but the possibility of fire from the same cause.

Pasteur — immortalized for Posterity in Georgia Marble

On the face of this beautiful marble shaft appears the simple yet expressive inscription—”Erected to Louis Pasteur, Servant to Humanity, by the People of Chicago.” All civilization is debtor to this Frenchman, whose discovery has saved the lives of thousands each year.
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Have a real cigarette – have a Camel

New kind of whirlybird! This portable one-man ‘copter can be completely assembled in the field and ready to fly in a hurry. Its pilot, Dick Peck, is a Camel smoker. “I want a cigarette that smokes mild and tastes good,” he says. “Camels do both.” Read the rest of this entry »

So Hollywood’s new figure is apparently being tan? Besides the fact that tan is not really a “figure” do we really need five pages to explain this?

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HOLLYWOOD’S NEW IDEAL FIGURE

By Adela Rogers St. Johns

The Glamour and Charm of Lovely Screen Stars Are Heightened by a New Femininity Born of Sunbathing

THEY ask that question, “Is Hollywood developing a new ideal figure?” I say yes. A great big yes. New curves with all the glamour of the exotic boudoir, the sex appeal we used to talk about, plus the verve and honesty and beauty of strength and a figure made perfect under the suns and winds and perfumes of the deserts and the high places. Read the rest of this entry »

The scan doesn’t really do this ad justice. The colors are incredibly vibrant.

CLEVELAND POLICE MOTORIZED

CLEVELAND is prouder than ever of its Police Force which is now entirely motorized with the exception of the traffic detail.

The city’s Emergency Mobile Patrol is making history by helping daily in the reduction of crime and traffic fatalities. The entire nation is focusing its attention on this masterly stroke of police-pioneering.
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Separate Sack Suspensory.

You Can Tramp All Day

You can do the hardest work or play without strain, chafing or pinching if you wear a Separate Sack Suspensory. The S.S.S. has no irritating leg straps, no oppressive band on the sack, no scratching metal slides. It is made just as nature intended.
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Wow. Just… wow. It’s putting this article under the heading of “SCIENCE” that really does it for me.

Also, if you combine the ad on the left with the article on the right, I think you have the origins of a truly disgusting fetish.

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LATEX BALLOONS MAY SOLVE PROBLEM OF PACKING QUICK-FROZEN MEATS

One of the liveliest and most promising young industries in America is the quick-frozen-foods business which, in five years, has increased its sales from 10,000,000 lb. of meat, vegetables, fruit and fish to more than 150,000,000 lb. Read the rest of this entry »

Washington Family Will Tour Nation in Hollow Log Placed on Wheels

CYRUS T. GATES of Deming, Washington, has just completed a novel home on wheels in which he and his family plan to tour the nation. This motor home consists of a large spruce log, hollowed out and mounted on the chassis of a large Chevrolet truck. Read the rest of this entry »

… this thing called ULTRA-VIOLET

In 1801 Johann Wilhelm Ritter, a German physicist, made a most interesting discovery. While exploring the theories of Sir Isaac Newton and others —that light was a series of waves (similar to waves upon the water) in the ether, and that color was caused by a difference in the lengths of these waves—Ritter found waves even shorter than the visible violet. Invisible waves so short that it would take 70,000 of them to make an inch. Read the rest of this entry »