Archive for October, 2006

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 [...]

Ice Concrete 1927

ICE CONCRETEâ€”This is the name of a new, porous, astonishingly light building material invented in Finland. Like ordinary concrete, it is composed of cement and sand. Crusht ice or snow is used during the process of mixing. Says Waldemar Kaempffert in the New York Times:
Heat evaporates the water of the melting ice, and the result [...]

Golf Psychology 1927

Psychology is spreading like a weed. It has even invaded the golf courses, we are told by The British Medical Journal (London). The latest example is a small volume on mental handicaps in golf, by Dr. T. B. Hyslop, who is not only an enthusiastic golfer, but also an entertaining writer. Says The Journal:
Before we [...]

Pons-Winnecke comet visit 1927

OUR VISITING COMET
CLOSER TO THE EARTH than any comet except one is known to have come before, the Pons-Winnecke comet was only 3,500,000 miles away from us on June 27, about fourteen and a half times as far as the moon, and far closer than any other astronomical body ordinarily comes. But despite this neighborly [...]

Thoughts on Carbon from 1927

CARBON: THE LIFE ELEMENT
IN A BOOK RECENTLY PUBLISHED in Paris on “Carbon, Combustion and Its Chemical Laws,” Henry Le Chatelier, one of the world’s greatest experts on this subject, sums up part of his recent lectures on Mineral Chemistry at the Sorbonne, which Henry de Varigny, writing in the Journal des Debats (Paris), tells us [...]