Word: lamps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sometimes difficult or impossible for police in patrol cars to read the license plates of a speeder because of headlight glare, fog, murk or because the lamp supposed to illuminate the license plate is extinguished. But such conditions would not affect infrared radiation. Last week Commissioner Foote's plan was to install in patrol cars infrared cameras which would snap a picture of the license plate of a car ahead under the worst conditions. By means of a mirror arrangement the patrol car's speedometer will be included in the picture, thus giving a record of the speeder...
...Sally, Irene, and Mary," now at the Metropolitan, Alice Faye and Tony Martin rub noses, Fred Allen climbs a lamp post, Joan Davis goes into unbelievable contortions while tap dancing, and Jimmy Durante, back in films with his cigar and his proboscis, does his traditional "Again-You Turn-a" dance. A hodge-podge of the craziest situations Director William Seiter could throw together, the film makes no sense whatever; but it does succeed in being mildly amusing and sometimes very funny, which is all that was ever intended...
...Elmont, L. I., John Hecker went to spend the night with his friend John Jackson. Guest Hecker, to provide better light, set an oil lamp on a stove. It exploded. Host Jackson, to put out the fire, emptied a gallon jar on the flames. It contained kerosene...
Died. Charles Q. Eldredge, 92, world traveler, founder of the Eldredge Free Private Museum; after long illness; in Old Mystic, Conn. His museum contains 7,000 curiosities-among them Thomas A. Edison's first incandescent lamp, a hammer from Abraham Lincoln's Kentucky home, a cannon ball Mr. Eldredge firmly believed to be the first fired against Fort Sumter, an 8½-lb. petrified oyster, a piece of wood from the Confederate gunboat Merrimac. In 1933 he advertised for sale "a fully equipped museum, an honor to any town or city...
...Managing Editor F. W. Beckman in touch with his readers. A sort of countrified Delineator, the Farmer's Wife carries plenty of fiction, but not by big names. There is lots of advice on how to run a Halloween party, make clothes, improve the appearance of a kerosene lamp...