Adventure Magazine, December 10, 1924 — page 3: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ADVENTURE I After the third lightless night, the business men took matters into their own hands. ‘“‘If the city won’t pay for the lights, we will,’’ they told the ADVENTURE Dec. 20th, 1924 city council. ~ Where was Lima when MAZDA, the Mark ofa Research Service. It is the mark which as- sures the user of the lamp that the manu- facturer had advantage of the most recent find- ings of the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Com- pany. Invention moves from the ideal to the real. So the researches of men trained to in- vestigate and experi- ment make impressive contributions to hu- man progress. the lights went out? As part of an economy program, Lima, Ohio, tried turning out the street lights. The trial lasted three nights. One newspaper summarized the result as “the probability of a crime wave, increase in the num- ber of traffic accidents, and the loss to Lima business houses of a gigantic sum during the holi- day season.” GENERAL ELECTRIC N. Y. Yearly subscription $6.00 in advance; single copy 25 cents. matter Oct. 1, 1910, at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Published three times a month by The Ridgway Company at Spring and Macdougal Sts., New York, Entered as second-class COMmicloo Volume 50 Number 2 C©