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Take Your Own Car to Europe 1927

TAKING YOUR OWN CAR TO EUROPE” MADE EASIER
A LARGE travel for next year of American motorists taking their own cars to and from Europe is now assured, we read in a Montreal dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune, by the new arrangements which have been made by the Montreal Motorists League in cooperation with [...]

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Create Bobbed Hairstyles of the 1920’s and 1930’s

Create Beautiful Bobbed Haircuts
Learn how to create the short, intermediate, and long bobs of the 1920’s – the beautiful bobs of the modern era. Learn how to cut and mould to the contours of the head and neck…the natural hair lines…and the facial features. Learn how to emphasize good features and minimize defects to create [...]

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Kro-Flite Golf Balls 1927

SPALDING KRO-FLITE GOLF BALLS – Guaranteed for 72 holes.  We absolutely guarantee replacement of any Kro-Flite Ball which is cut through or becomes unplayable from any cause in 72 holes of play.THEY SAID SUCH A GOLF BALL COULD NEVER BE MADE 
SPALDING has exploded the belief that a high-powered, long-distance ball cannot have maximum durability.
Without sacrificing a [...]

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8 Reasons to use Checks in 1925

BANKERS SUPPLY COMPANY CHECKS 
How a checking account helps you get ahead – in 8 ways!
You’ve thought of a check-book as a convenience. . . Now learn how it furthers financial success
THE way to handle money efficiently, say authorities and successful people, is to determine in advance just where each dollar is going. Thus you spend [...]

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Shorthand vs Dictaphone 1925

DICTATE TO THE DICTAPHONE
With shorthand he couldn’t keep “caught up”
How much more freedom does a man get from office routine when he uses The Dictaphone than when he’s held down by shorthand?
Read this story of Horace W. Davis—then note our coupon offer
CHIEF executive of so important a concern as Ansco Photoproducts, Inc., manufacturers of the [...]

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Genetic Criminal Traits 1925

A MACHINE TO DESCRIBE OUR FUTURE CHILDREN
Machines have been designed to determine mechanically for parents what the inherited traits of their children will be. This latest innovation in the field of genetics is announced in the annual report of the Chicago municipal court’s psychopathic division, we are told by Owen D. Scott of the Consolidated [...]

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Hoover Vacuum Cleaner 1927

The Hoover 
Why spend yourself on what a machine can do ?
Every woman has been through it—that thankless job of housecleaning—that wearisome and joyless toil that faces her spring and fall.
Dragging dust-cloths and stepladders through the house, stooping and straining to reach under furniture and over moldings, wrestling with smudged draperies and such.
Some women suffer it [...]

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Atwater-Kent Radios 1927

Atwater-Kent Radios
MODEL 3S, 6-tube ONE Dial Receiver, less tubes and batteries. $70. Speaker, Model H, $21. Other ONE Dial Models, $85 to $140. Radio Speakers, $16 to $23.
ANY ONE who can make and sell a million of anything in four years must be making a product which satisfies those who use it.
Atwater Kent Radio does [...]

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