No Post today – But things get exciting as Halloween approaches.  Be sure to find out why October 30th is the “Day of Days!”

Here is what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

Oct 1st – Adolf Hitler expands German army & navy & creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles

A new issue of Scientific American is out. Some headlines could be from today. Other’s not so much.

Features

• Wings Over Water

  Increased Use of Water-Going Aircraft May Presage a New Era in Aerial Transportation

  Reginald M. Cleveland| October 1, 1934|

• Uncle Sam, Ace Detective

  Herbert Fearon| October 1, 1934|

• The Folly of Human Sterilization

  Ignatius W. Cox| October 1, 1934|

• The Amateur and His Microscope–XII Some Tricks of the Trade

  John F. Brandt| October 1, 1934|

• Strikes, Business, and Money

  In a desire to make for our readers a fair appraisal of important and timely economic problems

  James H. Rand Jr.| October 1, 1934|

• Steel Arteries for Boulder Dam

  Pipes without parallel in modern engineering

  R. G. Skerrett| October 1, 1934|

• Flowers in the Arctic

  James Montagnes| October 1, 1934|

• Excavations in Ancient Athens

  T. Leslie Shear| October 1, 1934|

• Dark-Rooms

  And Dark-Room Technique for the Advanced Amateur Photographer

  A. P. Peck| October 1, 1934|

• America Must Be Self-Contained

  James W. Gerard| October 1, 1934|

• Along Came a Spider

  The Little Black Widow Spider, Common in this Country, is More to be Feared than the Tarantula

  Nelson W M. Baker| October 1, 1934|

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