Pulp Action from the Wild West through the Dirty 30s and More.
Couple of interesting cartoons depicting the effect machines and automation has had on man.
As the total population increased, the number of workers, of both sexes, represented by the height on one figure, kept pace with it; the population, however, increased four times as fast, raising the standard of living, though hours have been cut down by a third.
The possibility of transmitting signals to Mars by short waves has long been a moot question among scientists. Some say no, and some say yes, bu the latest contribution to the dispute has been made by Dr. Alexanderson, world famous electrical wizard.
Keye Luke (June 18, 1904 – Jan 12, 1991) was the original Kato in the Green Hornet and Green Hornet Strikes Again serials. He also appeared as Ah Fong, a Chinese spy, in the 1945 serial Secret Agent X-9 with Lloyd Bridges.
Saw anxious earth-being and intelligent brute wandering aimlessly about in deserted region ~~ On one occasion cloud of fowl rose from ground ~~ Earth-being looked at them through long metal stick which exploded, frightening several fowl to death ~~ Earth-being placed them in large pocket.
Republic Pictures did a little product placement for their serial, Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc., in a scene where Spy Smasher and his twin brother Frank are in hot pursuit of a shipment of stolen gold.
A Columbia bicycle with a 40lb Colt automatic gun attached to a turntable on the front handlebar
From the The San Francisco Call., September 25, 1913
HERE is an astonishing picture of the reconstructed Gigantosaurus Africanus, the most prodigious creature that has come to light. Our special artist has now reconstructed the great land dragon and has set it by a man and Diplodocus Carnegii, to emphasize its enormous size. Recent discoveries have revealed in Africa remains of a land dragon whose length measured some 160 feet, or about the distance from The Call office across Market street to Lotta’s fountain. The monster was discovered by German savants at Tendaguru, in German East Africa. An almost complete skeleton was obtained. The cast of the upper arm bone, or humerus, now at the British Museum of Natural History, South Kensigton, and descriptions of the rest of the skeleton show that this colossal beast was a near relation of Diplodocus Carnegii, in Pittsburgh. Now, Diplodocus was just 84 feet long and stood 11 feet high at the shoulder. His arm bone measured just 3 feet 3 inches long. The arm bone of the new giant, Gigantosaurus Africanus, was as long as the whole leg of Diplodocus; it measures now just 7 feet 1 inch, but during life it was certainly some inches longer, for no allowance has been made for the gristle which must have capped both ends. It may be that Gigantosaurus may lose something of his glory, at any rate as far as his length is concerned, for it is assumed that he was a long tailed dragon, like his American cousin. He may not have been. In height Diplodocus was nowhere; his 11 feet at the shoulder is far eclipsed by the 22 feet of his rival. Naturally, it is difficult, not to say dangerous, to dogmatize on the theme of the habits of Gigantosaurus. 11c lived during that remote period of the world’s history during which the lower cretaceous rocks were formed; a period which antedated the birth of man by several million years. We shall probably be not far from the truth in regarding him as an aquatic, or. at any rate, an amphibious creature. That he was a vegetarian is shown by his teeth, and that he was dull witted is proved by the ridiculously small size of his brain cavity, less than would hold a man’s fist. A man is placed in the drawing (under Gigantosaurus Africanus) merely for the comparison of size.
This is Tortola Valencia, who has the peculiar gift of being able to cure “sick” pearls by wearing them. After reposing a few weeks on Tortola’s bosom pearls which have lost their luster are said to recover their original ‘brilliance”.
Tortola is a “Spanish dancer, just now the rage in Paris. Her strange effect on pearls resulted-in a commission from the czar of Russia, who has sent her a magnificent pearl- necklace to wear and “cure.” It was originally made for Catherine the Great of Russia.
While Tortola wears it she is guarded day and night by detectives employed by the French and Russian governments.
(The Day Book., March 28, 1912)
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