Month: August 2011
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Is The Moving Picture To Be The Play Of The Future?
In 1911, the motion picture industry was just beginning to boom. Movies were still silent, and black-and-white, but this article predicts how the industry will change once color and sound are added. Is it too much to say that the moving picture is the theatrical show of the future? Yes, if we have got always […]
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The Strong Arm Squad A Terror To The Gangs
There is so much good stuff in this article. Rhinelander Waldo has appeared in a couple articles previously, as the city’s Fire Chief. But he just got promoted to Police Chief, and as one of his first actions he created a brute squad! But the first rule of the brute squad is that you don’t […]
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Moving Pictures Suggested To End The Tramp Evil
James Forbes, Director of the National Association for the Prevention of Mendicancy and Charitable Imposture, is a hobo expert. As the article says, “The study of tramps has been a life study with him.” Forbes has finally figured out how to get rid of this blight on society using modern technology: For years he has […]
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Activity Of Modern Woman A Racial Problem
Taking the evidence as it comes to him from records of daily experience which are written into the public documents of all countries, [Dr Schlapp] finds unmistakable evidence of deterioration in the human race. This does not mean that men and women to-day are not physically and mentally as well endowed as ever they were, […]
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A Modern Skyscraper Romance
In New York, we see people live their lives through windows across streets or courtyards. A few weeks ago the magazine ran a heartwarming story about a couple whose lives were observed by a woman across the street. Here’s another tale of people interacting through windows across from each other, this time with a surprise […]
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A French Scientist Of The Sorbonne Attacks Darwinism
To say that Gaston Bonnier “attacks” Darwinism in this article is a bit of a stretch. Today we think of such attacks as coming from a religious point of view, but here it is one scientist taking issue with certain assumptions and observations of another scientist. He doesn’t argue theology. He argues science. Societally, I’d […]
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Youth No Bar To Sending Geidel To The Electric Chair
The arrest of seventeen-year-old Paul Geidel for the brutal murder of William Jackson in the Hotel Iroquois has caused many people to ask, “What can they do with him? They can’t send a boy of seventeen to the electric chair, can they?” These people would be surprised to know that under the law of this […]
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Double-Decked Streets For Lower New York
I can think of a few double-decked roads in the city (such as under elevated portions of the FDR drive, and beneath elevated subway tracks in the outer boroughs) but nothing like what’s depicted in this drawing. It’s an interesting concept. Are there any major cities with double-decked sidewalks along the roads? DOUBLE-DECKED STREETS FOR […]
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A Talk With Miss Margaret Kelly, Director Of The U. S. Mint
This Margaret Kelly person sounds pretty impressive. Check this out: Miss Margaret Kelly, the young woman in question, occupies the enviable position of being the highest salaried female official in the employ of the United States Government. But this fact does not so much entitle her to distinction as this: that, in her present position, […]
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