1930s
Coated tongue means self-poisoning
From back in the day when advertisers just tried to scare consumers silly:"Coated tongue means self-poisoning. Correct it by all means."
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Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 28, 2019 -
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Category: Advertising, 1930s, Diseases
Gags and Gals: Mail Order Brides
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 27, 2019 -
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Category: Movies, Sexuality, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1930s, Women
The Tree-Sitting Fad of 1930
A national craze for a short time.
Article here.
Another article.
Not everyone was cooperative, as seen below.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 25, 2019 -
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Category: Fads, Nature, 1930s
The First Buck Rogers Film
Explanation here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 05, 2019 -
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Category: Aliens, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Pop Art, Science Fiction, 1930s
Imogene Winchester in LIFE Magazine
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 19, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Body, Human Marvels, Children, 1930s
The Radio Venus of 1939
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 17, 2019 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Communications, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, 1930s
Mouse kills cat
This was big news back in 1934.Though I find it somewhat hard to believe, as reported. Surely it's more plausible that the cat accidentally choked while eating a mouse, rather than the mouse purposefully plunging down the cat's throat.
Lafayette Journal and Courier - Oct 16, 1934
Posted By: Alex - Thu May 09, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Pets, 1930s
Dried Milk as Fuel
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 06, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Food, Motor Vehicles, Technology, 1930s
Followed
This 1930 ad campaign for Lucky Strike cigarettes featured people being followed by shadowy, fat versions of themselves. Could be the premise for a horror movie (like a mash-up of Us and It Follows).Source: tobacco.stanford.edu
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 29, 2019 -
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Category: Advertising, Smoking and Tobacco, 1930s
The Rotating-Disc Ornithopter
Major article here.
Second piece here.
Inventor's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 28, 2019 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Technology, Air Travel and Airlines, 1930s
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