Archive for December, 2006

Influence of the Automobile 1927

THE AUTOMOBILE’S INFLUENCE ON TRADE CENTERS
NOT only do people go farther to buy the necessitiesâ€”and luxuriesâ€”of life since the advent of the automobile, but they tend to locate in the larger centers of population.Â This is the conclusion reached by the New York Journal of Commerce after reading of the survey made by the University [...]

The Telephone Hour 1929

Bring Them “back Home” … by Telephone
HOLIDAYS over . . . children on their way back to school . . . friends scat-tered . . . grown sons and daughters off to the city again. . . .
But there is one sure way of bringing them “back home” all through the year. By telephone!
Talking to [...]

The Secret of Makeup 1927

The Secret of Make-up
MY DISTASTE for dyed hair, however, is only aesthetic. Since my marriage I have completely changed my point of view about dressing up for effect. Before I married I hardly ever used make-up, except when playing. I didn’t care what I looked like. I was the worst-dressed actress in New York [...]

Christmas Shopping 1926

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING BY BUS
THE two most prominent developments during the present Christmas shopping rush noted by J. C. Royle, Consolidated Press correspondent at New York, are the elaborate stocks of mechanical toys and the extent to which the motor-bus, rather than the railroad, is being used by the Christmas shopper. Says Mr. Royle in one [...]

1929 Christmas Club Money

MORE CHRISTMAS-CLUB MONEY THAN EVER
“PEOPLE who depend on the Christmas â€” Club for their holiday spendings are not affected by the recent unpleasantness in Wall Street, for a recent press statement shows that this year’s payments are to be 10 per cent. greater than last year’s, and more than five times the amount in 1920. [...]

Overpaying Income Tax in 1925

DON’T OVERPAY YOUR INCOME TAX!
IT SEEMS strange that after all these years of income-tax paying, the Bureau of Internal Revenue should find it necessary to warn taxpayers making income returns not to pay more than they actually owe. But such is the case, observes Bradstreet’s, noting that the issuance of such a statement was found [...]

Belgenland World Cruise 1925-26

LARGEST AND FINEST LINER EVER TO CIRCLE THE GLOBE
ON November 25th the Red Star Liner Belgenland sails Westward from New York on her second World Cruise of 132 days. The 475 fortunate voyagers will visit 60 cities in 14 countries throughout the worldâ€”60 cities which have been carefully chosen because of their charm and their [...]

Concrete with Bamboo Reinforcing 1923

CONCRETE REINFORCED WITH BAMBOO
Bamboo, which has been chemically treated, is used as a reinforcing for concrete in Japan and, we are told in Concrete (Detroit):
“According to Henry C. Hitchcock, the American consul, Nagasaki, Japan, the chemicals used in treating the bamboo are apparently known only to the few who have made use of them. Bamboo [...]