Produced by the Exhibit Supply Company in 1935, these postcard-sized fortune predictors were dispensed at fairgrounds from arcade machines for a small sum. I hope they were intended to be comical or interpreted comically like the Chinese fortune cookie fortunes of today. Heck of a way to anticipate how your children might be.
Here are some more links to images of things that prove our modern faith in astrology and "mediums" is not a new thing:
http://pinterest.com/corrinekenner/vintage-fortune-tellers/
http://pinterest.com/texasdiva74/fortune-telling-and-such/
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