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En Garde, whole no. 17.5, 1946
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page 2. FORGOTTEN FANTASIES EDITOR'S NOTE: Time-Travel offers sundry rewards. Going back into the past of fifty or sixty years ago proves especially worthwhile to the would-be compounder of a fanzine column. The magazines of that bygone day were laden with items of singular strangeness and fantastic quality. Forgotten Fantasies has developed into quite a regular feature of En Garde. "GOOD FOR WEAK LUNGS. Monte Cristo Whisky. The best produced. 75 cents and $1 per bottle." -----Judge, January 19, 1889. (Adv.) ((Without a doubt you've heard of inhaling the stuff! Ah, them were the gold ol' days.)) "PIMPLES, BLACKHEADS AND FLESH WORMS. 'Medicated Cream' is the Only Known harmless pleasant and absolutely SURE and infallible cure. It beautifies the complexion as nothing else in the world can, rendering it Clear, Fair and TRANSPARENT." -----The Golden Argosy, Oct. 29, 1887. (Adv.) ((Do you too experience that "crawling feeling"? Do your friends call you Worm Bait? Are the skull-orchard boys rushing you? Curb their impatience with a jar of this cream. Become transparent! The lost secret is now yours. Be an Invisible Man and elude them.)) "SHALL WE TRAVEL UNDER WATER? Some weeks ago the Argosy printed a note concerning the plan of sending passengers to Europe in a Pneumatic tube laid under the ocean, and herewith we append an interview obtained by a reporter of the New York Tribune with the originator of the idea. When asked how the tube could be laid under the ocean, the reply was very frankly made: 'That is, in fact, the only thing in the whole project that staggers scientific men. In laying our hollow cable or tube we must provide against the breakage of it. I purpose having the outside made of wire, with the interstices filled with gum; then, inside of the wire, iron and a lining of steel. We would need new appliances and machinery specially adapted for weaving the wire. I think the tube or hollow cable should be made as it is laid---that of course will be an elaborate and tedious process. We must lay it from a vessel larger than the Great Eastern. I am afraid the Great Eastern would scarcely do. 'What would be the shape of the conveyance?' pursued the reporter.
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page 2. FORGOTTEN FANTASIES EDITOR'S NOTE: Time-Travel offers sundry rewards. Going back into the past of fifty or sixty years ago proves especially worthwhile to the would-be compounder of a fanzine column. The magazines of that bygone day were laden with items of singular strangeness and fantastic quality. Forgotten Fantasies has developed into quite a regular feature of En Garde. "GOOD FOR WEAK LUNGS. Monte Cristo Whisky. The best produced. 75 cents and $1 per bottle." -----Judge, January 19, 1889. (Adv.) ((Without a doubt you've heard of inhaling the stuff! Ah, them were the gold ol' days.)) "PIMPLES, BLACKHEADS AND FLESH WORMS. 'Medicated Cream' is the Only Known harmless pleasant and absolutely SURE and infallible cure. It beautifies the complexion as nothing else in the world can, rendering it Clear, Fair and TRANSPARENT." -----The Golden Argosy, Oct. 29, 1887. (Adv.) ((Do you too experience that "crawling feeling"? Do your friends call you Worm Bait? Are the skull-orchard boys rushing you? Curb their impatience with a jar of this cream. Become transparent! The lost secret is now yours. Be an Invisible Man and elude them.)) "SHALL WE TRAVEL UNDER WATER? Some weeks ago the Argosy printed a note concerning the plan of sending passengers to Europe in a Pneumatic tube laid under the ocean, and herewith we append an interview obtained by a reporter of the New York Tribune with the originator of the idea. When asked how the tube could be laid under the ocean, the reply was very frankly made: 'That is, in fact, the only thing in the whole project that staggers scientific men. In laying our hollow cable or tube we must provide against the breakage of it. I purpose having the outside made of wire, with the interstices filled with gum; then, inside of the wire, iron and a lining of steel. We would need new appliances and machinery specially adapted for weaving the wire. I think the tube or hollow cable should be made as it is laid---that of course will be an elaborate and tedious process. We must lay it from a vessel larger than the Great Eastern. I am afraid the Great Eastern would scarcely do. 'What would be the shape of the conveyance?' pursued the reporter.
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