Weird Universe

Looking beyond the couple literally dancing on bread, the ad's claim that if you want to lose weight you should "cut down on other foods, but not on bread" hasn't aged well.

"Have you had your 6 slices today?"

Chatelaine - Apr 1937

A curious, unsolved medical mystery from 1920.

Kansas City Post - Apr 5, 1920

Electrical Experimenter - June 1920
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In the early 1930s, psychologists experimented with using "music, colors and perfumes" to treat cases of melancholia and depression.

Patients in groups of five are taken into the room, where music carefully prescribed to suit their mental condition is played. Perfumed vapors are then allowed to drift across the room, while the "colorama" is played upon the screen.
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The old "it was just a psychology experiment" excuse.

Tulsa World - Jan 20, 1958

The result: two years probation.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat - Feb 16, 1958