Christopher Stoll

Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate it.

My Best Xmas Wishes

This is an odd Christmas card, and unfortunately I can’t date it.

Cheerio!
Merrie Christmasse.

Pikes Peak Summit House

Language of Flowers

Arbor Vitae—Unchanging Friendship.
Apple Blossom—My preference.
Alyssum—Worth above beauty.
Aspen Tree—Sorrow.
Blue Canterbury Bell—Fidelity.
China Pink—Hate.
Coreopsis—Love at first sight.
Dead Leaves—Heavy heart.
Forget-me-not—True love.
Geranium—Lost hope.
Hazel—Let up burry the hatchet.
Hawthorn—Hope.
Heliotrope—You are loved.
Ivy—Freindship.
Lily of the Valley—Happy again.
Linden Tree—Marriage.
Marigold—I am jealous.
Myrtle—Unalloyed affection.
Pansy—Think of me.
Pea—Meet me by moonlight.
Peach-Blossom—My heart is thine.
Phlox—Our souls are united.
Pink, red—Woman’s love.
Rose—Perfect beauty.
Rose-Bud—My heart knows no love.
Rose Geranium—You are preferred.
Sweet William—Let this be our last.
Tulip—Declare your love.

The Empire State Building
From the Cloverleaf American, July 1927

110-Story Skyscraper to Be World’s Highest

That construction of the 110-story Larkin tower in New York is ultimately to prove more than a vision was indicated by recent official approval of the building plans. Its 1,200 feet will make it the world’s tallest structure

Apparently times have not changed at all. I wish I could still order this book.
From the November 19th, 1927 edition of the Cloverleaf American…

Sex Secrets Revealed!

A beautiful and happy bride today. Too soon a mother, then more children. The result—overwork, strained constitution, broken health, unhappiness and too often a divorce. Why so often the case? Why should marriage convert a healthy normal girl into a tired old woman? Why not a continuous, happy married life with children in proportion to the mother’s strength and the means of the family? Why such sex tragedies? Authoritative answers to these questions and priceless other revelations on Love, Courtship, Marriage, Passion, Sex, COnception, Birth and Sex Determination, are contained in the latest and greates volume on Man’s and Woman’s Love-Life and Sex-Life.

This book is not a novel—it is a penetrating searchlight fearlessly turned on the most intimate relations of men and women. Its astounding facts, upon which the very laws of life are based, convey a vital message to brides, grooms, husbands and wives.

Things Every Adult Should Know

This startling book—strikingly illustrated—gives “human interest” stories, proving “TRUTH” stranger and more fascinating than fiction—“NEVER TOLD TALES”—that seldom reach the public. It frankly answers questions everyone wants to know, but hesitates even to ask a doctor.

Learn the truth about your Love-Life and Sex-Life, portrayed in this great work on LIFE’S GREATEST SECRETS. Take no foolish chances. Don’t pay the dreadful price of ignorance and suffer possible, untold, agonizing grief later.

This amazing $3.50 volume is easily worth $10.00, but to quickly introduce it into 50,000 homes, for a limited time only we will send this famous book to those who write for it, for only $1.95.

One piece of ephemera from the slide rule museum, an IBM advertisement from god knows when. I always somewhat thought that one computer scientist is worth 150 engineers.

150 Extra Engineers

An IBM Electronic Calculator speeds through thousands of intricate coputations so quickly that on many complex problems it’s just like having 150 EXTRA Engineers.

No longer must valuable engineering personnel … now in critical shortage … spend priceless creative time at routine repetitive figuring.

Thousands of IBM Electronic Business Machines … vital to our nation’s defense … are at work for science, industry, and the armed forces, in laboratories, factories, and offices, helping to meet urgent demands for greater production.

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