Questionable Advice & Advertisements

~ The Referee & Cycling Trade Journal: A Weekly Record and Review of Cycling and the Cycling Trade, 1893

~ Good Housekeeping, 1917

“The Luxurious Motor Car Upholstery”

~ The Household Magazine, February, 1926
via Library of Congress
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“A school for pedestrians has been established …. [h]ow to behave in presence of …. motor cars is one phase of the training provided.”

~ Chicago Bluebook, 1903
via Internet Archive

“Carriages, Not Machines”

~ The Whittier News, Whittier, California; February 17, 1911
via Whittier Public Library Digital Collection

~ The Referee & Cycling Trade Journal: A Weekly Record and Review of Cycling and the Cycling Trade, 1893

~ Bicycling World, Devoted to the Interests of Cycling, November 4, 1887

“Bicycles repaired and nickeled. Second-hand BICYCLES, GUNS and REVOLVERS taken in exchange.”

~ Texaco ad, c. 1930s
via Pinterest
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“She was perfectly capable of changing a flat. But today she was dressed for a luncheon….”

At first glance this looks like the typical “man to the rescue” ad, but the text makes it clear that she “was perfectly capable of changing a flat” herself. Very progressive!

~ Sankey’s Pressed Steel Wheels, April 1914
via Grace’s Guide

“Another example of the unbreakable quality of Sankey Pressed Steel Wheels”

~ Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal, June 1909

~ Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal, June 1909
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“When you overtake a car and there is a cloud of dust ahead of you—raise the shield. When you have passed the car and want fresh and bracing air—lower the shield […] without slackening the speed of your car”

~ advert for British Petroleum Ethyl, April 1934
via Flickr
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~ “Ariel” Tri-Car, Benetfink and Co., May 1904
via Grace’s Guide
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~ Charles S. Day; A New Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue, Illustrating and Describing Many Attractive Novelties, Electrical Goods, Useful Articles, Fancy Goods, Fine Jewelry, &c. ca. 1890 ca
via internet archive
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“We presume all of our readers have either seen or read about the wonderful automobile, or horseless carriage…”

~ 1937
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“You’re never alone when you ride with a genuine Ford radio in your Ford V-8. The news of the world, sports, music, drama - a turn of the dial and they’re yours.”