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...happened in this manner: I purchased a number of "Auto Jokers" from a salesman. These are a gadget attached to the spark plugs on a car. When someone steps on the starter a small dynamite cap explodes, which sets fire to a quantity of powder. This burns in a constricted place and gives a high whistling noise like a fire in the gas line. Great quantities of smoke pour out, the victim decides the car is going to blow up and makes his preparation to leave just as the final explosion lets...
Clogged Pores. . . . Woodbury's Powder...
...Asbury Park, Heavyweight Champion Max Baer, rehearsing for a radio skit while training for his June 13 fight with James J. Braddock, contrived to shoot himself in the chest with a revolver loaded with a blank cartridge. He was hospitalized for powder burns...
Young Grass. Previous tests on the nutriment value of cereal grasses, said Dr. C. F. Schnabel of Kansas City, Kans., were misleading because the grass was too old. Dr. Schnabel took tender, young shoots of wheat, barley, oats, rye, ground them to a meal tasting like malted milk powder, found its food value two to five times greater than spinach, carrots, lettuce or chard, its vitamin content up to 50 times greater. Hens fed on this meal laid twice as many eggs containing fivefold as much Vitamin...
...alluring makeup for Soviet faces, and up to the time of his present debauch under the Moscow streets, Josef Stalin has shown the road to oblivion. It is highly possible that New Yorkers and Bostonians, seduced by the luxurious existence of their Russian cousins, will soon demand silkier face-powder, more tantalizing lipstick, or even a marble subway with messics! The world must unite to save capitalism from this degrading Communist menace...