Archive for October, 2006

Telephones Save Lives 1930

FEW TELEPHONES MEAN HIGH DEATH-RATE
The influence of good telephone service on the death-rate of a community was urged recently in Great Britain by Maj. Burdon Evans before the Montgomeryshire Health Insurance Committee. Says Dr. E.E. Free in his Week’s Science (NewYork):
“In the Machynlleth Rural District of Wales, Major Evans reported, the death-rate for the past [...]

Planet Discoveries 1930

STILL ANOTHER PLANET?
ANOTHER NEW TRANS-NEPTUAN PLANET has been discovered by astronomers of the Dominion Observatory at Ottawa, according to dispatches to Science Service, given in its Daily Science News Bulletin (Washington). We read:
“This tenth planet of the solar system, if further observations bear out the planetary nature tentatively assigned to it, will make this year [...]

Brain Wave Study 1927

BRAIN WAVES
WAVES OF ONE KIND OR ANOTHER, emanating from the brain, have been discovered more than once; but they do not stay discovered. Such waves would possess great importance as a possible physical basis for telepathy. The most celebrated were probably the “N-rays” reported from a Paris laboratory a quarter of a century ago. Tho [...]

Halloween Ideas from 1923

IDEAS FOR A VINTAGE HALLOWEEN
Coming up with ideas for Halloween costumes and decorations is a perennial problem that never seems to get easier, and it’s not a new problem.
Our Great Grandparents had the same problem and so a crepe paperÂ manufacturer recognized the opportunity and produced a neat little 34 page booklet that was was chock [...]

Department Stores Under Threat 1927

UTILITY COMPANIES AS APPLIANCE RETAILERS
DEPARTMENT stores and chain stores have been showing considerable opposition to the new competition which has arisen from the policy of public utility companies of operating appliance stores in order to spread the gospel of the maximum use of electrical appliances in the house-hold. The stores, in fact, have been making [...]

US Exports 1927

WHAT THE WORLD WANTS TO BUY FROM US
ROMANCE is found by a Western editor in one of the “dollars and cents service” bulletins of the Department of Commerce noting actual inquiries received by the Department from thirty-two foreign countries regarding specific American products they desire to purchase. It seems that “what the world wants includes [...]

Cold Summer of 1927

A COLD SUMMER; AS PREDICTED
THIS SUMMER HAS REWARDED its prophets, Dr. E. E. Free believes. In an article contributed to The Herald Tribune (New York), he bids us note that nearly three years ago two unofficial meteorologists, Mr. Herbert Janvrin Browne, of Washington, and Mr. H. H. Clayton, of Massachusetts, began predicting that 1927 would [...]

Proposed Law Against Face-lifts 1927

LEGISLATION TO SAVE AMERICAN WOMEN from the effect of “frantic and artificial efforts to make themselves beautiful,” is advocated by Dr. Charles F. Pabst, chief dermatologist of Greenpoint Hospital, Brooklyn, New York. In an interview published in the Brooklyn Eagle he proposes drastic methods to stop “face-lifting” and other such processes, pointing out that in [...]