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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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Tropic-Aire Car Heaters 1929

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 [...]

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