A REAL WEATHER SYSTEM you raise YOURSELF, right on your own dresser!! It RAINS on command! It RUMBLES at bedtime! And after 3 weeks of loving training it OBEYS YOUR VOICE!!!
RAINS ON COMMAND!!
ONLY 10¢!
OBEYS YOUR VOICE!!!
Friend, have you EVER wanted to be the BOSS of the WEATHER?!? Of COURSE you have!! Now, for the first time ANYWHERE, the craftsmen of Vireo-Pratt have raised a GENUINE THUNDERSTORM and brought it down to POCKET SIZE!!! Sprinkle the STORM SEEDS in your Cloud Dome, give the LIGHTNING GENERATOR a good crank, and WATCH your very own cloud puff up before your EYES!!!
IS IT SAFE? You BET it is!!! Every dome is moulded of tough, shatter-proof plastic and every storm is hand-checked right here in Racine!
WILL IT REALLY RAIN? Friend, it rains on COMMAND! Water the geraniums! Give your goldfish a THRILL!!
Now, SOME outfits want to sell you a wind in a can. Kids, a wind is just a DRAFT that got too big for its britches!!! Can a wind THUNDER? It CANNOT! Don't be fooled — insist on a STORM!!!
AND THAT'S NOT ALL!!! YOU ALSO GET, ABSOLUTELY FREE:
Official STORM OWNER'S CERTIFICATE with YOUR NAME on it, suitable for FRAMING!!
Wallet-size MEMBERSHIP CARD in the JUNIOR STORM KEEPERS OF AMERICA!
A FREE 32-page booklet, “HOW TO RAISE A CHAMPION CLOUD”!!!
IRON-CLAD MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE — if your storm FAILS TO THUNDER, we send back EVERY PENNY!!!
HERE'S WHAT REAL KIDS ARE SAYING!!!
My storm rained on my sister's birthday!
R.J.T., Fort Wayne, Ind.
It rumbles me to sleep EVERY night!
D.M.O., Pocatello, Idaho
I named mine GUS and he comes when I whistle!!
L.A.V., Bangor, Me.
Mom lets me water the ferns with it! Neat-o!
C.P., Tulsa, Okla.
IT'S AS EASY AS 1-2-3-4!!!
1CUT out the coupon along the dotted line!
2PRINT your name & address NEATLY!!
3TAPE a DIME and a NICKEL on the circle!
4MAIL IT to Racine TODAY!!!
FROM YOUR PIGGY BANK —
10¢
5¢
1¢
Grab those scissors, Friend!!! Snip ALL THE WAY around the dotted line!!!
…and so Captain Comet turned his ship toward the burning moon, not knowing that far below, in a little town in Ohio, a boy named Danny had seen the whole thing through his window! CONTINUED ON PAGE 30…
YES, BUZZ!!! Rush my GENUINE POCKET THUNDERSTORM with Cloud Dome, Lightning Generator, Storm Seeds and ALL my FREE gifts! I enclose 10¢ plus 5¢ postage & handling.
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Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. No C.O.D.s. Canada & foreign add 10¢.
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PURCHASERS. (1) The Pocket Thunderstorm is a novelty moisture display and is not a weather system within the meaning of any state or federal statute. (2) Unit may not thunder. Audible effects vary with crank speed, room humidity and the disposition of the individual cloud. (3) Training results vary with the individual cloud. Vireo-Pratt Wonder Products makes no representation that any cloud will obey any voice, including the owner’s. (4) The money-back guarantee applies only to storms returned in their original rain, postage prepaid, in the Cloud Dome as shipped. (5) Storm Seeds are not seeds. Do not plant. Do not eat. Cloud shown in illustration is larger than cloud. Offer void where prohibited or where it is already raining. We thank you for your kind attention. Vireo-Pratt Wonder Products, Racine, Wis. Printed in U.S.A.
GILROY-STRAND ATMOSPHERICS
Frankly.
Some boys are content with a mere “storm.” The discerning young meteorologist prefers the DELUXE POCKET HURRICANE: seventy-four miles an hour of spin in a handsome brushed cylinder. We needn’t shout about it. $1.25
Naturally, you’ll want one.
Gilroy-Strand Atmospherics, Suite 400, Box 1, Evanston, Ill.
Very well. Send my Deluxe Pocket Hurricane. NAME ____________________
Talk to the BIRDS!
This little brass whistle sings like 40 songbirds. Hold it just so, give a gentle puff, and there’s a robin on your windowsill by Saturday! Chickadees, wrens and bobwhites too. 35¢
NAME ____________________ TOWN ____________________
SEE OVER FENCES!
See around corners! Peek over the crowd at the parade! The 30-inch ASTRONAUT PERISCOPE telescopes out to full length in a jiffy. Official Space Cadet decal FREE. 69¢
Orbit Toy Co., Dept. X-1, Box 2020, Huntsville, Ala.
CADET NAME ________________ ADDRESS _________________