~ The Spinster Book, by Myrtle Reed, 1901
~ Scott Tissues, May 1930 (Good Housekeeping)
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“At least 15 painful diseases can be caused or aggravated by improper tissue, warns a prominent New York hospital specialist.”
~ Sausalito News, January 11, 1913
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~ The College Freshman’s Don’t Book, by George Fullerton Evans, 1910
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~ The Bicycling World, November 1887
~ The Mentor: A Little Book for the Guidance of Such Men and Boys as would Appear to Advantage in the Society of Persons of the Better Sort, by Alfred Ayres, 1884
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~ Don’ts for Girls, A Manual of Mistakes, Minna Thomas Antrim, 1902
~ Seagram Distillers Corporation, 1937
“We don’t want to sell whiskey to anyone who buys it at a sacrifice of the necessities or decencies.”
“We don’t want to sell whiskey to anyone who buys it at a sacrifice of the necessities or decencies.”
~ Gold Shield Coffee, Cupid’s Book of Good Counsel, 1918
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“How the taste tickles palates and drowns the petty memories of the things that may have happened the night before! Don’t ever be without it in the house. Something awful might happen if you were forced to disappoint him with ordinary coffee.”
~ The American Pictorial Home Book, or Housekeeper’s Encyclopedia, by Mrs. Harriet Almaria Baker Suddoth, 1883
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~ The Pittsburgh Press, January 9, 1911
“Uneeda Biscuit are touched only once by human hands - when the pretty girls pack them - That makes them CLEAN”
~ Etiquette For Ladies: A Manual Of The Most Approved Rules Of Conduct In Polished Society For Married And Unmarried Ladies, by a Lady of New York, 1845
~ Highland Linen Writing Paper, c. 1920’s
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“Your Self-Respect will not allow you to receive friends in a kimono. But do you ever send your friends letters that are inappropriately dressed?”
