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Humanised Trufood
Make sure your food has been humanised...
Daily Telegraph - Jan 28, 1937
Post-Graduate Medical Journal - June 1935
Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 06, 2024 -
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Category: Babies, Food, Advertising, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #591
It's hard to remember a time when Lambchop could serve as a role model. Certainly the puppet was abetted by Shari Lewis being so gorgeous.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 04, 2024 -
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Category: Puppets and Automatons, Advertising, Children, Twentieth Century
Peanut Butter with No Jelly Candy Bar
Any product endorsed by Vincent Price is aces with me.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 01, 2024 -
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Category: Advertising, Candy, 1970s
You’re the Judge
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 23, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Domestic, Food, Advertising, Teenagers, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #590
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 18, 2024 -
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Category: Crime, Hygiene, Advertising, 1980s, Europe
Miracle Face-Bra
"the newest way to make lastex yarn work for you"
Radio and Television Mirror - July 1948
Posted By: Alex - Sun Mar 17, 2024 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Advertising, 1940s
Smoking Facts
Seemed odd to me that the ad would not only mention that they've got "a patent on flavor," but also give the patent number (3828800). So I had to look it up. Turned out to be a fairly boring patent for "an improved cigarette filter material... formed from the porous, granular salt of a weakly basic anion exchange resin."
Sports Illustrated - Nov 14, 1977
Coos Bay World - Nov 4, 1978
Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 13, 2024 -
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Category: Advertising, Patents, Smoking and Tobacco, 1970s, Billboards
Follies of the Madmen #589
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 06, 2024 -
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Category: Advertising, Junk Food, Wild West and US Frontier, Twentieth Century
Husbands too like Premarin
Make your wife pleasant again with Premarin!By the 1990s, Premarin had become the most frequently prescribed medication in the United States. Now, according to Wikipedia, it's down to number 283.
The word 'Premarin' is a portmanteau of PREgnant MAre uRINe.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 05, 2024 -
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Category: Medicine, Advertising, Husbands, Wives, 1950s
Forehand Guns
The choice of dog killers and stagecoach robbers.
Recreation magazine - Aug 1899
Recreation magazine - Dec 1899
Posted By: Alex - Wed Feb 28, 2024 -
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Category: Advertising, Weapons, Nineteenth Century
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