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~ 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”

~ The Ladies’ Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners; or, Miss Leslie’s Behaviour Book, a Guide and Manual for Ladies, by Eliza Leslie, 1864
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~ Prevue Simplicity Fashions, April 1939
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“You find, as millions of others, that the relaxing chewing helps you forget your petty worries so you are more at ease and therefore more attractive.”

~ Seagram’s V.O. Canadian Whisky, 1944
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“Your Facsimile Newspaper of Tomorrow!
Ready for you when you wake up, your newspaper of the future will be printed through the night - in tabloid size, on a continuous roll. You will bring yourself up-to-the-minute on the highlights of the news…by seeing what is happening on the television screen of the same machine.”

~ American Thermos Bottle Company, 1908
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“THERMOS is with Peary at the North Pole
THERMOS is with Teddy in Africa”

~ Seagers Egg Flip, 1953
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“Wine - eggs - sugar. That’ll flip away the flops and make a new woman of you!”

~ The Woman’s Manual, Aurora Reed 1916
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~ The American Pictorial Home Book, or Housekeeper’s Encyclopedia, by Mrs. Harriet Almaria Baker Suddoth, 1883

“FISH AS A DIET. - …Its consumption tends wonderfully to render [mankind] more kindly to one another, and consequently tames the passionate disposition to crime.”

~ United States Food Leaflet, 1917 (United States Food Administration)
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“Cheese is excellent food if eaten at the right time.”

~ Doctor’s China Tea, 1924
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~ Good Luck Oleomargarine, Good Housekeeping, June 1935
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“It will not melt down on your daintiest sandwiches when you entertain with outdoor parties, picnics or afternoon teas.”

~The ClubWoman, October 1918

” ‘Machine Dried’
Makes it clean enough to eat.”