Sunday 12 February 2023

Cape Town’s new £22 000 Broadcasting Station at Milnerton

 CAPE TIMES - 1933, July 18

The Cape and Peninsula Broadcasting Association started Cape Town’s first Broadcasting Station on September 15, 1924.

Have a look how Cape Town’s new £22 000 broadcasting station at Milnerton is rapidly nearing completion in July 1918. Here is seen one of the 300-ft. masts and the new transmitter house in which a 10-kilowatt transmitter is being installed.




First Wireless Broadcasting Station in Sydney, Australia

CAPE TIMES - 1924, April 11

During the evening of 23 November 1923 people across Sydney gathered eagerly in their homes around pieces of wondrous new technology to hear the first radio broadcast in Australia.

Here are some photos of one of the big Steel Towers for Farmer & Co's Station 
at Sydney, the First Wireless Broadcasting Station in Australia, 
published in the CAPE TIMES - 1924, April 11.





Sunday 5 February 2023

Insurance of Animals in 1906

CAPE ARGUS - 1906, September 22
The Owner of Cabs has noticed with pleasure that an insurance company had been started for the sole object of insuring the lives of animals. He said this had supplied a long-felt want. Many a poor man who had only his horse or mule to depend upon for his living had lost the animal and was deprived of his living, not being able to replace this loss. Through this company he could protect himself, and he trusted this new venture would receive the success it deserved. Cab-owners should take advantage of this, as well as wagon-carriers, butchers, bakers, etc. The fees were very small, and there was no doubt that if this company was well supported the charges should become considerably less. 

Friday 3 February 2023

Snap, Crackle & Pop

THE STAR Johannesburg - 1918
CAPE TIMES - 1928 & 1933



Do you remember the slogan 
“Snap, Crackle and Pop?” 
Have a look at how old the famous Kellogg’s Rice Krispies and other cereals are!


Kellogg’s Rice Krispies
When you want to give the children a light, but satisfying meal there’s nothing better than Kellogg’s Rice Krispies. Made from kernels of wholesome rice, they are toasted to a delicious golden brown – so light they snap, crackle and pop in cold milk or cream. Children and grown-ups alike enjoy their tasty flavor and crunchy goodness. Try them today. No cooking required. Sold by all grocers in the red-and-green packet. 
(CAPE TIMES - 1933, August 5)


Old John Oats
Cooked in five minutes. The genuine Scotch porridge, prepared with a minimum of trouble. Made by John Grant & Sons, Ltd., Craig Mills, Dundee, Scotland 
(THE STAR Johannesburg - 1918, Jan.19)


 

Kellogg's Rice Krispies 

New – Different – Delicious

All the children are excited about this new cereal – Kellogg’s Rice Krispies. So different from anything you have ever known.

Lively little bubbles of toasted wholesome rice, that SNAP, CRACKLE AND POP as they float lightly on milk or cream. Get a packet today, mother, and give the children a real treat. No trouble at all. No cooking.

Serve direct from the packet with cold milk or cream. Sweeten with sugar if desired. At your grocer’s in the red-and-green packet – always oven-fresh – protected by the patented inner WAX-TITE bag. (CAPE TIMES - 1928, August 1)

 








Post Toasties
You have not tasted Corn Flakes at their best until you have eaten POST TOASTIES – a breakfast cereal with winning flavor. By a special process of cooking, rolling and toasting, the true, rich flavor of ripe Indian corn is brought out. This splendid food comes in sealed packets, air-tight and crisp. Eat with cream or milk. Delicious! Made by Meyer, Bridgens & Co., Ltd. 
(THE STAR Johannesburg - 1918, Feb. 14)

Pioneer “Crunchies” 
– South African Corn Flakes
Fresh, appetizing, wholesome, these South African Cornflakes will tempt the appetite of children who do not care for ordinary cereals. Although ready to serve, they may be prepared in a variety of ways and at any meal. 
(THE STAR Johannesburg - 1933, Aug. 31)

Read about the goodness of RICE KRISPIES as a Pre-Workout Snack @ https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/why-do-people-eat-rice-krispies-before-working-out

Monday 30 January 2023

Eight-wheel Car (ADLER Diplomat)

 THE STAR Johannesburg - 1935, August 16

A Berlin firm has produced an eight-wheel car, said to be virtually shock-proof and comfortable over rough roads at high speeds. The photograph shows the new car on a country road. 

The position of the front wheel illustrates how the car will avoid bumping. The wheels will pass over the holes in the road, and not into them.

 


Read more about the 1935 ADLER Diplomat 8 Wheels at 
https://www.vintag.es/2020/10/1935-adler-diplomat.html

 

Sunday 17 April 2022

POLAROGRAPH: Device that Analyses Liquors

 CAPE TIMES - 1933, August 19

DEVICE THAT ANALYSES LIQUORS 
Revealing Chemical Contents

Whenever liquors fall under the suspicion of not being what they are claimed to be, the use of an electrical device called a polarograph, which was invented in 1922 by Prof. Jarslav Heyrovsky of Charles University, Prague, will establish beyond doubt their guilt or innocence.
The Polarograph automatically analyses all kinds of liquids and solids, including the most complex chemical solutions, and thus saves hours of tedious work in laboratories. The solution to be analyzed is placed in a small container, in which it is electrolytically decomposed. Then by closing an electric switch the device automatically records on a strip of paper wound on a drum a graph in the form of a curved line which indicates both the relationship between the current passing through the solution and the magnitude of the electromotive force.


In this way both the kind and the amount of chemical substances present in the liquor are revealed in four or five minutes. This saves hours of time necessary when the slower and longer laboratory methods of making such analyses are used. Other advantages to be gained by the use of the polarograph, as Prof. Heyrovsky points out, are greater precision, greater accuracy for microanalysis, simultaneous quantitative and qualitative analysis, the total absence of any effect on the solution and the consequent ability to repeat the analysis indefinitely.

Prof. Heyrovsky says that the use of the polarograph makes it possible for the investigator to analyze both qualitatively and quantitatively the numerous complex alcohols as well as the still more complicated compounds of which the lowest forms of life are composed.

“The polarograph method in the determination of substances occurring in almost imperceptible traces,” Prof. Heyrovsky explains, “is more than 1 000 times as sensitive as X-ray spectrum analysis. 

The presence of so infinitesimal a quantity as one ten-thousandth of a part of many substances, though not all, may be detected.

“This instrument also may be used in research laboratories in physics, chemistry, biology, in clinics, medical laboratories, laboratories of the petroleum and other industries, and in pharmaceutical research. In industry it can be used in the study of fermentation processes, for the determination of the quality of molasses and of various sugar, and in the study of ores and alloys, rocks, waters, gases, minerals and meteorites.”

Read more about the POLAROGRAPH at  https://www.britannica.com/science/polarography




Saturday 5 February 2022

JOHANNESBURG in the 1930'S

THE REAL JOHANNESBURG

CAPE TIMES - 1933, August 31

Well within living memory the site of the City of Johannesburg can be recalled as a barren, impoverished farm.
Barely 45 years have elapsed since the conversion of the farm was undertaken, and in that comparatively brief interval has arisen a city that the nations of the world recognize as one of the most important among the whole of the wide-flung British Empire.
It is a fact that without courage, foresight, incredibly hard work and unshakable belief in what must have been nothing more than a dream city, Johannesburg could never have grown to its present state of urban beauty which most effectively cloaks the mining activity to which the city owes its being.
For the newcomer to the Union the most likely jumping-off place from which to make the journey to Johannesburg is Cape Town.
The first pleasurable surprise must logically be the railway accommodation. The Union Express is probably the finest, fastest, most luxurious single-track train in the world. It covers the 1 000 miles that separate Cape Town from Johannesburg in the amazingly fast time of 29 hours, making a 6 000 feet ascent in the course of the trip. Every carriage is steam heated, there is a covered-in corridor running the entire length of the train and an observation coach like a small greenhouse, furnished with deep leather armchairs and couches that cannot fail to add pleasure to the journey. 


Of the food served on the Union Express no praise can possibly be extravagant. For an absurdly small sum the travelers can obtain a six-course dinner that would put any city hotel on its mettle. And a valet service and hot bath are two more delightful surprises awaiting the tourist who has arrived in South Africa imbued with ideas of ox-wagons and mule-carts.
Of the social amenities of Johannesburg little need be said. The city is rich with opportunities for diversion, and the people warm-hearted, hospitable and generous to an extreme, see to it that the stranger within their gates is kept amused and happy throughout the length of his stay.











THE ORIGIN OF JOHANNESBURG'S NAME

THE STAR Johannesburg - 1935, August 2

It has been generally assumed that JOHANNESBURG was named after Mr. JOHAN RISSIK, Surveyor-General of the South African Republic. Recent research in the archives at Pretoria, however, shows that the city was also named after Mr. CHRISTIAAN JOHANNES JOUBERT, then head of the Mines Department.

In a letter dated February 26, 1896, Mr. T. J. Krogh, Acting Under-Secretary, wrote: “This town was named after Mr. JOHAN RISSIK, the present Surveyor-General, who was first clerk in the department of the Surveyor-General when the town was laid out, and by whom the stands were surveyed, as well as after Mr. CHRISTIAAN JOHANNES JOUBERT, head of the Mines Department. I may add that the names of towns in the Republic are fixed by resolution of the executive council.”

This clears up any doubts about the origin of the names of Johannesburg. Most authorities give the origin of the name as being after Mr. Johan Rissik, and no mention is made of Mr. Joubert.


ORIGIN OF CITY'S NAME

THE STAR Johannesburg - 1935, August 6

Dr. Gustav S. Preller questioned the report in The Star of the 2nd Aug. 1935 regarding the origin of the name JOHANNESBURG. He assumed that the name of President PAUL JOHANNES KRUGER was coupled with that of Mr. JAN (JOHANNES) MEYER (Johannesburg’s first Mining Commissioner) and that it might probably also have been linked with that of Mr. CHRISTIAAN JOHANNES JOUBERT (Minister of Mines).

 

HOW JOHANNESBURG GOT IT'S NAME

THE STAR Johannesburg - 1935, August 10

State letters in the archives at Pretoria seem to dispose of the theory that the name of Johannesburg was derived from the second name of President Paul Johannes Kruger.

In a letter dated February 26, 1896, T. J. Krogh, Acting Under-Secretary for External Affairs, stated that Johannesburg was named after Mr. JOHAN RISSIK, Surveyor-General, and Mr. CHRISTIAAN JOHANNES JOUBERT, head of the Mines Department. 








Cape Town’s new £22 000 Broadcasting Station at Milnerton

 CAPE TIMES - 1933, July 18 The Cape and Peninsula Broadcasting Association started Cape Town’s first Broadcasting Station on September 15, ...