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The Perfect Home Part 1

A Comparison between American and Italian Homes
Part 1 of a 1927 magazine article on The Perfect Home
THERE are twenty-room villas on the lovely hillsides of Florence, Italy, that can be had for fewer dollars than the purchase price of half a twin house in the reclaimed swamp region of South Philadelphia. These villas have no [...]

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Correct Colors for Certain Blondes and Brunettes Part 4

Titian and Auburn Hair Types continued…
Part 4 (final part) of a 1927 magazine article on choosing fashion colors to suit your hair color and personality
RED : Never becoming to any of these four types in any of its shades up to and including pink. The only possible exception would be the auburn brunette, with hair [...]

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Correct Colors for Certain Blondes and Brunettes Part 3

Titian and Auburn Hair Types
Part 3 of a 1927 magazine article on choosing fashion colors to suit your hair color and personality
THERE are four distinct groups in this class. First, the Titian blonde.
The true Titian blonde has flaming red hair that is vivid enough not to be called blond and light enough not to be [...]

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Correct Colors for Certain Blondes and Brunettes Part 2

Eyes are an Important Color Index
Part 2 of a 1927 magazine article on choosing fashion colors to suit your hair color and personality
THERE is nothing as expressive as the eyes. Nothing so portrays a person’s mentality, a person’s soul, a person’s aliveness. The very plainest woman in the world cannot be plain if she has [...]

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Correct Colors for Certain Blondes and Brunettes Part 1

Part 1 of a 1927 magazine article on choosing fashion colors to suit your hair color and personality
COLOR is at your disposal. The correct use of it can have an inestimable value in your life. If you do not pay any attention to its possibilities you are overlooking one of the means for acquiring and [...]

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Rotor Powered Ship Design 1925

WE SHOULD HAVE INVENTED THE ROTOR POWERED SHIP
WE SHOULD HAVE EXPECTED the rotor ship to be an American invention, says Dr. Edwin E. Slosson in Science Service’s Daily Science News Bulletin (Washington) ; first, because the principle involved is the same as our pitchers employ in putting the curve on a baseball; and, second, because [...]

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Hoover Vacuum Cleaner

Advantages of the Hoover Vacuum Cleaner
You have to beat rugs to get them clean.
Nothing very new about that, is there? You’ve heard it a thousand times. If you’ve ever kept house you know it’s true.
Because it is true, it wasn’t enough that The Hoover should whisk up dust and lint from the surface of carpetings. [...]

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Fish Oil as Fuel for Car Engines 1927

COMING: THE FISH-OIL MOTOR
The possibility of farming the sea for motor-fuel, after all the oil and gasoline are gone, is indicated by studies of the use of fish oils and other animal oils as motor fuels reported to the French Academy of Sciences, in Paris, by Messrs. Georges Lumet and Henri Marcelet. Says Dr. E. [...]

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State of the art Sound System 1927

The New Orthophonic Victrola Record Player
THINK of having America’s greatest dance-organizations at your beck and call! Orchestras that would cost a small fortune to engage for a single evening! Through the new Orthophonic Victrola and the amazing new Orthophonic Victor Records, you can bring these selfsame orchestras right into your home. Exactly as you would [...]

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Aircraft Traffic Rules 1927

TRAFFIC RULES FOR AIRCRAFT
LIKE THE RULES FOR AUTO DRIVERS are the traffic rules for aircraft just issued for the first time by the Aeronautics Branch of the U. S. Department of Commerce, reports H. C. Davis in The Popular Science Monthly (New York). Reading them, he says, it is easy to imagine the day when [...]

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