Questionable Advice & Advertisements

~ Canada Dry Ginger Ale ad, 1972
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“Ginger Ale Tastes Like Love”

After sharing a ginger ale The Man and the Long-Haired Hippie reached a new understanding and vowed to be bestest friends forever.

~ The Millinery Trade Review, 1917
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“Practical Sports Hat of Khaki Kool worn by Mrs. Vernon Castle and greatly admired for its Chic by the Fashion Arbiters.”

~ The Illustrated Catalogue & Price List of A. Coulter & Co., Wholesale Dealers in Staple Goods & Novelties, 1878

“Sew a few into your coattail and you can unconsciously carry off a good share of the contents of a small hardware store. With a little outlay and energy, a man can provide comfortably for a good sized family.”

~ Stromberg-Carlson ad for War Bonds and radios, 1943
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“The same skill that brought you the magic of FM radio will bring you new miracles of sound…Remember this, when you consider your post-war radio.”

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

~ Gordon Mackay & Co. Ltd, 1922

~ Eddy’s “Silent” Parlor Matches, Canadian Almanac, 1910
via Internet Archive

~ The Furniture Trade Review and Interior Decorator, 1895
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“Makes fifteen pieces of furniture; two hundred changes of position.”

~ Ku-Bist Hair Fixative, 1930
via Grace’s Guide

KU-BIST Hair Fixative: “…in an actual test, an Ariel going ‘all out’ failed to turn a single hair of its rider, who that morning had applied KU-BIST”

~ The County Gentleman and Land & Water, November 20, 1915

“Special Discount off all Jig-Saw Puzzles sold for use of Wounded Sailors and Soldiers”

~ Levi’s, 1971
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cabbagingcove:

A Gentleman’s Smoke:
“Doctor’s Prescription”

“Take one every hour
-Dr. Puffo”

[Pharmaceutical Age. 1893.]

~ Cosmopolitan June-November 1910 (v.49)
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“The keyboard with a key for every character and the keys arranged in straight lines”

Note: by 1910 the operator was already being referred to as “she”.

~ Lana Lobell catalog, “Summer Symphony of Fashions”, 1955
via Reminisce

~ The Review of Reviews, April 1900
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“TASTES LIKE SALT.
IS SALT.”