FREAKISH DEVICES
NEW YORK EXHIBITION INGENIOUS INVENTORS. NEW YORK, May 10. A mousetrap which recovers its own bait, and a necktie equipped with a sponge for soup-eaters, are part of the world’s most freakish show, opened with a display of 5000 new inventions, at the Grand Central Palace, New York, A perfume atomiser attached to a fork for eating high-smelling cheese, and a reversible hat for women contributed by a western cattleman are also features .of the show. Other exhibits are an assortment of whistling egg-cookcrs, a substitute for crooning, self-smoking pipes, and nonskid soap bars, the last-mentioned being the invention of a 10-year-old girl, who has several other patents to her credit.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21650, 21 May 1932, Page 11
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113FREAKISH DEVICES Otago Daily Times, Issue 21650, 21 May 1932, Page 11
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