Tag: 1920
What on Earth?
A comment concerning the flurry of attempts to contact Mars by Tesla, Marconi and Edison in 1920.
The Mahoning Dispatch (Ohio), July 23, 1920
Elmo the Fearless, 1920
Martians, 100 Years Ago
Will Earth and Mars Signal to Each Other April 27th?
The near approach of Mars to Earth and the announcement some time ago of Prof. Hubert II. Goddard. of Clark College, that he intended to shoot a rocket to Mars, have awakened interest In the planet again. Wireless experts have received mysterious messages, which some have suggested came from Mars.
“This picture shows a Martian as Scientists who believe there is life on the planet he would appear. He is about nine times the height of man with a huge chest to breathe rarified air of the planet, weak eyes and probably mechanical aid to hearing or wireless more of ordinary communication.” Continue reading “Martians, 100 Years Ago”
Hello Earth, 1920
From an article in The Idaho Recorder, April 02, 1920
Send Smoke Signals to Mars, 1920
What do you do with excess smoke making material? Send smoke signals to Mars of course!
Alcohol is Illegal!
100 years ago, on 1/17/1920, the 18th amendment became the law of the land, making the production, importation, sale and transportation illegal in the USA.
Scientists Agree…
New York Tribune, February 8, 1920
Holiday Greetings
To the young readers of the Boy’s Cinema
Holiday Greetings
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzana Ranch
Los Angeles California
The Ferocious Man-eating Tree of Madagascar
It is from seven to ten feet high and something like a grape fruit in shape, with rough, ugly tendrils stretching out in all directions. The trunk is black and hard as stone.
At the top of. the tree are six palpi, six feet high, that rear straight up and twine and whirl about incessantly. There is a cup also at the top which contains a clear, appetizing looking fluid. But alas for him who drinks it. He becomes peculiarly crazed and unable to get down.
Then it is that the whirling palpi twine themselves slowly but surely about the helpless man until all life is gone. This species of tree is naturally avoided as a deadly serpent would be, and the natives consider that it is actually alive and possessed of an evil and terrible spirit. (Arizona Republican, October 19, 1913)
Sacrificed to a man-eating plant. American Weekly. September 26, 1920