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 famous Ansco Cameras, Ansco Speedex Film and Cyko paper, Horace W. Davis must be on the jump all the time. So one day sees him in the New York office. The next, at the Ansco Factories and main office in Binghamton, N. Y. And the next, on an overnight jump to a midwestern city.

When Mr. Davis gets back to his desk, docs he spend all his time “catching up”? Not at all! The astonishing fact is that he has abundance of leisure—for constructive planning and recreation.

How does he do it? The Dictaphone!

His regular train from the West drops him at Binghamton at daybreak. Then—straight to his office. If his desk is piled with the accumulated correspondence he attacks it—by dictating to The Dictaphone. And when the 8 o’clock whistle blows, his desk is clear.

Three days’ work in three hours! He’s got the jump on routine. He’s free from that burden for the rest of the day.

Mark this—he never has to wait for his secretary to take dictation. The Dictaphone is always ready. With machines at both offices and at home, he can go and come at will—work at all hours—with his mind intent only on his job.

And The Dictaphone is a boon for his secretaries. Since Miss Van Alstyne, at Binghamton, doesn’t have to copy letters twice

—once in shorthand, once on the typewriter

—and isn’t constantly interrupted to take dictation, she can handle all Mr. Davis’s work and assist the vice-president in Mr. Davis’s absence.

—While Miss Ruckel, of the New York office, has time to handle many important matters—taking over work which would otherwise consume Mr. Davis’s time.

Which of these coupons will you send, as the first step to “doubling your ability to get things done”?

DICTAPHONE advertisement in The Literary Digest for September 12, 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 Press Association, Chicago. He says:

“Guess-work, the report emphasizes, plays no part in heredity. Characteristics of parents in all of their intricate multiplicity are passed on to children with mathematical precision. What the psychopathic division of the municipal court has done is to start determining by machine what the result in children will be from the crossing of parental traits. One machine, given the out-standing characteristics of the parents, determines what the heritage pattern of the offspring might be. A second machine shows how children of dissimilar parents will average in the traits that they develop.  Both involve complicated mathematical determinations. Inheritance follows definite unchangeable lines. Should parents be alike in all except one characteristic, one-quarter of the children would resemble the father, one-quarter the mother, and half of them will resemble the combined traits of the father and mother. But characteristics vary so widely and run back through so many generations that inheritance becomes a vastly complicated mathematical problem. The psychopathic laboratory of the municipal court, established by Chief Justice Harry Olsen is particularly determining the inheritability of criminal traits, and for that purpose its machines are used. The laboratory has found, as eugenics teaches, that bad strains in families carry through generations with the same tenacity that good strains do, cropping out from time to time with regularity.”

Source: The Literary Digest for September 12, 1925

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 still, and more’s the pity—needlessly spending their energy and charm on work a machine can do, easily and with all the furnishings in place.

The light, deft, efficient dusting tools of The Hoover take all this sort of labor off a woman’s shoulders; they bring all the hard-to-get-at places within easy cleaning reach.

You want The Hoover because of the time and labor its dusting tools will save you in housecleaning, but you want it more because of

“POSITIVE AGITATION”

and the faster, easier, deeper cleaning it performs regularly on floor coverings.

THE HOOVER COMPANY, NORTH CANTON, OHIO The oldest and largest maker of electric cleaners. The Hoover is also made in Canada, at Hamilton, Ontario.

The Hoover is easy to buy. If you already have an electric cleaner, your Authorized Hoover Dealer will make you an allowance on it in trade, delivering you a new Hoover, on easy payments if you like. Cash price, the Model 700 $75.00, or the Model 543 $59.50. Dusting Tools $12.50. Prices slightly higher west of the Rockies and in Canada

The HOOVER

It BEATS …as it Sweeps as it Cleans

HOOVER Advertisement in The Literary Digest for October 1, 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 satisfy. It satisfies in performance, appearance, price. That is why more than a million families have singled it out as the Radio for their homes.

These million homes are your best answer to the question: “When I put it in my home, will it bring in music and voices clearly, quickly, easily and consistently?”

Just try an Atwater Kent ONE Dial Receiver with an Atwater Kent Radio Speaker and a million satisfied owners are your best proof that it will satisfy you.

Prices slightly higher west of the Rockies and in Canada

ATWATER KENT MANUFACTURING COMPANY advertisement 1927

TROPIC-AIRE

The Original Fan-Equipped Hot Water Automobile Heater

LET the freezing weather come! Let the cutting wind sweep down from the North! You’ll feel none of the outside cold as you drive along, if your car is equipped for winter with a Tropic-Aire

It fills the car with the genial warmth of June. For no source of heat is so great, clean and steady as your engine’s hot water, as used directly by this efficient heater.

SIMPLY TURN THE SWITCH. An electric fan circulates the heat throughout the car, using no more current than a tail-light.

FAN USED ALL SUMMER, TOO! The hot water is easily turned off so that you can use the fan for cooling ventilation on hot summer days.

FOR ALL CARS. Made in three styles including a special style for Model “A” Fords. Tropic-Aire Hot Water Heaters are sold and installed by dealers and garages in every locality.

Tropic-Aire advertisement from The Literary Digest for December 7, 1929