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An Early Gas Mask (Magazine Ad, 1915)
1915, Inventions and Weapons, Magazine Advertisement, Recent Articles

An Early Gas Mask
(Magazine Ad, 1915)

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At the time when the Entente powers were first exposed to poisonous gas in the spring of 1915, their respective quartermasters scrambled to secure suitable antidotes and precautionary measures that would save the men in the front line trenches. One of the earliest improvisations was a gauze face mask that covered both mouth and nose, drenched in urine. The attached commercial illustration is from the margins of the French news magazine, L’ILLUSTRATION which depicts one of these earlier attempts.


Click here to see an illustration of the German gas shells.


Clicke here to read more articles about W.W. I gas warfare.

Recent Articles, World War One

A Drawing of a German Trench Latrine
(Royal Engineers, 1915)

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Attached, you will find a mechanical drawing made by the industrious souls assigned to the Royal Engineers in order to placate those busy-body brass-hats situated so far in the rear and having little better to do than wonder aloud as to how the Hun tended to deal with his bowel movements.

The author of
The Western Front Companionstyle=border:none is very informative on the topic of trench latrines and tells us that as the war progressed, latrines evolved into loitering centers for those wishing to read or enjoy some solitude. In order to remedy the situation officers decided to position their front-line trench latrines at the end of short saps, closer to the enemy; the reason being that a man was less likely to tarry and would return to duty that much quicker.

Carl Sandburg at 70 ('48 Magazine)
48 Magazine, Recent Articles, Twentieth Century Writers

Carl Sandburg at 70
(’48 Magazine)

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Here is a salute to the poet Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967) written by Louis Untermeyer (1885 – 1977) marking the occasion of Sandburg’s biography of Abraham Lincoln:

At 70 Sandburg is the voice of the common man, and it is only natural that his biography of Abraham Lincoln should express for all time the spirit of that uncommon man who was the common denominator of humanity.

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President Roosevelt and the Panay Incident (Literary Digest, 1937)
1937, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest

President Roosevelt and the Panay Incident
(Literary Digest, 1937)

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Attached, you will find a survey of opinions drawn from diverse corners of the fruited plain regarding the restraint exercised by President Franklin Roosevelt in the wake of Imperial Japan’s sinking of the U.S. gunboat Panay:

[President Franklin Roosevelt] should be sustained in his effort to make Japan realize that she cannot continue a policy of aggression with disregard of treaties and international law. A firm policy now for law and order will save many lives.

-Russell J. Clinchy,Washington Council for International Relations

Germany's Lost African Colonies (Ken Magazine, 1938)
1938, Ken Magazine

Germany’s Lost African Colonies
(Ken Magazine, 1938)

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One thing about Adolf Hitler: he had a real bee in his bonnet when it came to the colonies that Imperial Germany had lost as a result of article 119 of the Versailles Treaty:

Germany renounces in favor of the principal Allied and Associated Powers all her rights and titles over her overseas possessions.

Attached, you will find a nifty cartoon depicting a terribly upset Hitler as he contemplated the map of Africa and all the colonies he was having to do without – all rendered in that glorious 1930s manner.

Click here to read more about the African colonies lost to Germany as a result of the Versailles Treaty.

The Dial Diet of 1955
1955, Diets of Yore, Pageant Magazine

The Dial Diet of 1955

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Within the cozy confines of the attached PDF file rest in honored glory the digital reproduction of seven (7) tried-and-true diets from 1955:


• The Liquid Diet


• The Spring Cleaning Diet


• The du Pont Diet

• The Basic Seven Diet


• The Famous Clinic Diet


• The Hard and Fast Diet


• The Daily Dozen Diet


They were all the necessary diet choices required for the (so-called) Pageant Diet Selector Dial, which is a part of the download. Seeing that there is not a single diet that is right for everyone, there is attached herein a paper dial that can be referred to daily – one for women and the other for men:

Looka at the outside band of the wheel for your age and activity group (whether you lead an active or a sedentary life). Then, select the number of pounds you want to loose.


– finally select the diet or combination of diets, indicated by the number on the inner wheel and follow the directions.


From Amazon:


The Doctor’s Diet: Dr. Travis Stork’s STAT Program to Help You Lose Weight & Restore Your Healthstyle=border:none

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The Fad for Felt Fashion (Quick Magazine, 1951)
1950s Fashion, 1951, Quick Magazine

The Fad for Felt Fashion
(Quick Magazine, 1951)

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The fad for skirts fashioned out of felt began with college girls when it was discovered that a flattering silhouette could be achieved when the fabric was cut on the bias; the attached article shows the color image of a felt ballet skirt as a case in point.


Sub-standard fabrics play a part in fashion’s march from time to time; in the Sixties there was a short-lived craze in some circles to wear dresses made from paper or vinyl.

The Look for Autumn (Quick Magazine, 1952)
1950s Fashion, 1952, Quick Magazine

The Look for Autumn
(Quick Magazine, 1952)

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The ‘costume look’ has developed into a strong fashion idea for fall and winter. The news is in the mis-mated fabrics and colors used in this year’s go-togethers. Highly-textured (and often noisily patterned) coats and jackets are sold frankly as suits with solid color dresses or skirts… Mismatched colors as well as mixed fabrics were used by Vera Maxwell in her coat and dress team [pictured]… Ben Zuckerman offered another example of fashion’s new doubling-up with black hip-length coat over a two-piece red wool jersey dress [pictured].

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Lace (Quick Magazine, 1953)
1950s Fashion, 1953, Quick Magazine

Lace
(Quick Magazine, 1953)

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Less dependent on the whims of fashion than almost any other fabric, lace blooms perennially in designers’ collections. Because it has an ageless quality, which makes it look well on women of any age, its uses are varied. This season it is treated in new ways by some of the top couturiers. It is embroidered, used as applique, beaded or scattered with sequins… There is variety in lace itself; it may be gossamer sheer or rich and handsome in design. But whatever its form, it is a universal fashion favorite [for now].

1950 College Fashion | Spring 1950 Mode
1950, 1950s Fashion, The Diamondback

The College Fashion Forecast for the Spring of 1950
(The Diamondback, 1950)

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A few words that anticipated fashion’s offerings for the Spring of 1950:

This Spring is predicted to bring a completely new point of view to the clothes-conscious American woman… Although the boyish figure of the 20s will not return as pronounced, the trend seems to be toward narrow shoulders with heavy exaggerated lines above the waist and slimness below.

Dashiel Hammett Fights the Fascists (Yank Magazine, 1945)
1945, Recent Articles, Twentieth Century Writers, Yank Magazine

Dashiel Hammett Fights the Fascists
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

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Dashiel Hammett (1894 – 1961) had a pretty swell resume by the time World War Two came along. He had a number of celebrated novels and short stories published as well as a few well-paying gigs writing in Hollywood. It was during this period, in the Thirties, that he had created some of the wonderful characters that are still remembered to this day, such as Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon) and Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man). During the war, it was rare but not unheard of, for an older man with such accomplishments to enlist in the army -and that is just what he did. This one page article clearly spells out Hammett’s period serving on an Alaskan army base; his slow climb from Buck Private to Sergeant; his difficulty with officers and the enjoyment of being anonymous.

Accompanying the article is a black and white image of the writer wearing Uncle Sam’s olive drab, herringbone twill -rather than the tell-tale tweed he was so often photographed wearing.

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Mary Pickford: An Appreciation (Motion Picture Magazine, 1916)
1916, Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford, Motion Picture Magazine, Recent Articles

Mary Pickford: An Appreciation
(Motion Picture Magazine, 1916)

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I haven’t a clue as to whether California lawyers had the Restraining Order as one of the tools in their arsenal back in 1916; but if they had, Mary Pickford might have chosen to deploy just such a legal measure in order to defend herself from this obsessed fan who wrote the following essay for the editors of MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE:

She is adorably feminine, from her curls to her toes. In Tessstyle=border:none, Caprice, the forlorn waif of the desert island in Hearts Adrift, she is feminine in everything she does. She can storm, but she storms like a warm-hearted, human woman, not a virago; she can coquettestyle=border:none, but it is never the cold blooded type of flirting; Mary Pickford couldn’t be cold blooded if she tried. Men of all ages, women of all types, children of both sexes respond to this wonderful little girl in a manner no other star is able to arouse. They are all good and have done some wonderful work, but Mary is child, sweetheart and friend of the whole world, and no one can ever take her place in our hearts.


Click here to read a 1923 comparison between Norma Talmadge and Mary Pickford.

Son of ''Fast Facts'' ('47 Magazine, 1947)
1947, 47 Magazine, Silent Movie History

Son of ”Fast Facts”
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

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To be sure, the motion pictures that Hollywood produced during the late teens were very self-conscious, but they were beginning to develop smartness…
Los Angeles and its environs were crowded with new motion picture companies. The American Film Company, the Vitagraph Company, the Universal Company Christie Comedies and Selig found competitors springing up like weeds after rain: the demand for flickers was enjoying its first boom.

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The First Anniversary of Chateau-Thierry (The Stars and Stripes, 1919)
1919, Chateau Thierry, The Stars and Stripes

The First Anniversary of Chateau-Thierry
(The Stars and Stripes, 1919)

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Monday, June 2 [1919], was a holiday in the 2nd Division in the bridgehead on the Rhine. The anniversary of the battle of Chateau-Thierry was observed. It is just a year ago that infantry and Marines of the 2nd Division were thrown against the Boche on the Paris-Metz road near Chateau-Thierry, and from that moment on the Americans were in continual fighting until November 11.

The Battle of Chateau-Thierry (Stars and Stripes, 1918)
1918, Chateau Thierry, Recent Articles, The Stars and Stripes

The Battle of Chateau-Thierry
(Stars and Stripes, 1918)

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The American performance at the battle of Chateau-Thierry proved to General Foche that the Americans had the necessary stuff, and it was widely recognized that the Doughboys played the key roll in keeping the Germans out of Paris.


The attached STARS AND STRIPES article is extremely detailed as to the individual units (both French and American) that participated in rolling back the Germans along the Marne.

German Weapons in Winter (Yank Magazine, 1943)
1943, Recent Articles, Weapons and Inventions, Yank Magazine

German Weapons in Winter
(Yank Magazine, 1943)

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The following notes, based on directions issued in 1943 by the German Army High Command, regarding the use and proper care of German infantry weaponsstyle=border:none during winter campaigns. The instructions in question concern:


• German Luger & Walther P38 pistols,


• the Gewehr 41 rifle, Gewehr 98,


• M.G. 34 light machine gun and the,


• M.G. 42 heavy machine guns.


The article is accompanied by illustrations of the snow sleds used to transport the German machine guns.


Click here to read about the mobile pill boxes of the Nazi army.

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