This snippet of advertising copy from the Oct. 20, 1928, New Yorker touted a "combination electrical 8-tube radio and electrical phonograph," the Amrad Opera, featuring a hand-carved cabinet "consisting mostly of exquisite walnut veneers" and priced at around $830.
Slick and fat with advertising, the issue ran 104 pages - included a piece on "what's wrong with newspapers today" (verdict: they're mostly filled with junk) and (O'Reilly please note) noted that in some obscure and unnamed African tribe males are occasionally known to marry trees.
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