Category: Ads From The Days Of Yore

To be perfectly honest, I don’t hang around the canned tuna aisle at the grocery, so I didn’t know that there even was such a thing as canned shrimp.  The thought of it actually makes me want to gag.  The 1942 advertisement below is apparently for recipe booklets.  I couldn’t find any information on Shrimp Canners National Advertising Association.  I ran across several articles about crystals in canned seafood (not glass, totally safe).  And a website that I suppose sells old recipe pamphlets from the company, but that’s about it.

JUST OPEN

AND ENJOY

Canned

Shrimp

They Come Already Cooked and Shelled

You get Deep-Sea Flavor of

Canned Shrimp without fuss

or delay.  Ready to use in

appetizers, salads, entrees.

Look!  Canned Shrimp Nutrition Score

✔VITAMIN A

✔VITAMIN D

✔PROTEINS

✔IODINE

✔MINERALS: Iron, Calcium, Copper

FREE RECIPES!

Shrimp Canners Natl. Adv. Assn.

I imagine in 1943 many a grandma shook their heads when they saw this advertisement for Lipton Continental Noodle Soup.

This is an interesting little advertisement, or at least I assume that it is an advertisement.  It was just in the newspaper, without a story to go along with it, under an article about World War II.  I think it may have been a clever little ad for the movie The Picture of Dorian Gray that came out March 1, 1945 starring Hurd Hatfield.

There are two interesting stories in today’s advertisement:  Musterole and the Dionne Quintuplets.

Musterole was first produced in 1905 by AL McLaren, a pharmacist from Cleveland, Ohio.  It was an over-the-counter mass produced version of a mustard plaster, which was popular forever (and still is) for muscle aches, heart problems and congestion.  Though Musterole is no longer available, instead Vicks VapoRub being the popular congestions ointment (my personal favorite is the Vicks VapoRub greaseless cream), you can still find recipes all over the internet for mustard plasters, and a few recipes if you want to try to make Musterole for yourself!

As for the Dionne Quintuplets, they are/were the first known quintuplets to live past infancy.  Two of the five are still alive today.  The facts of their lives are so extensive, and I am quite surprised that Wikipedia doesn’t have more information concerning them.  Click here to go to their Wikipedia page.

HOW QUINTUPLETS

RELIEVE coughing of CHEST COLDS

At the first signs which warn of a cold – the Dionne Quintuplets’ chests, throats and backs are rubbed with Musterole – a product made especially to promptly relieve coughs due to colds, make breathing easier and break up local congestion in upper bronchial tract.

Musterole gives such wonderful results because it’s MORE than just an ordinary “salve”.  It’s what so many Doctors and Nurses call a modern counter-irritant.  Since Musterole is used on the Quints – you may be sure it’s just about the BEST cold-relief made.

IN 3 STRENGTHS:  Children’s Mild Musterole, Regular and Extra Strength.

→ MUSTEROLE

One word about this advertisement:  COOLth.

That is all.

22% more COOLth* actually built in!

Costly Angora mohair is the base of the famous Palm Beach “open window” weave-a s-m-o-o-t-h fiber with no fuzz to mat or close the 1,600 “open windows” per inch.  Air circulates, dries the moisture on your skin…C-O-O-L-S your body Nature’s way, by evaporation.  An this ideal summer fabric-woven by Goodall-is also smartly tailored by Goodall with NO “heat trap” pads or heavy inner linings to impair it’s marvelous coolth*.  War conditions limit stocks, but Palm Beach is made in light or dark colors…stripes…business patterns.  Single or double-breasted.  Come see what we have!

*COOLth; opposite to warmth

Parks-Chambers

An ad in honor of Super Bowl day.

I tried to find an advertisement for the first Super Bowl, also known as Super Bowl (ha ha), but I didn’t have any newspapers from 1967.  That kind of surprises me.

This has to be one of the most boring ads I have seen.  It seems to be a take-off from Superman for American Airlines, I yawn just looking at it.  The ad was in the January 20, 1969 issue of The Evening Star, Washington, DC.  Just for a little background info:  Super Bowl III was played on January 12, 1969.  And it was the New York Jets and the Baltimore Colts.

Ok, so the advert.  Let’s just say that American Airlines thought they were something special, that’s for sure.  Get your pillow and naptime blankie ready.

LOOK.

UP IN THE SKY.

IT’S A BIRD.

IT’S A PLANE.

IT’S SUPER BOWL.

Everyday, from now until January 28.  Only on American.  On every one of our nonstop flights to Los Angeles.  The Jets over the Colts.  (Plus a movie).  On Astro-Color.  In case you didn’t believe your eyes.

Fly the American Way.  American Airlines

I wonder if exclamation points made the ad too expensive?  Geez…

And in case you have been sitting on pins and needles while reading this, the Jets won. 

Ah, the Miracle of Modern Medicine, circa 1938.  While researching Dr Blosser’s Medical Cigarettes I found a great website with a little write up about Dr Joseph W Blosser, so I won’t rehash the information when you can just click here and read about him.

I do find it interesting that I found some other advertisements for this product that claim there is no tobacco in the cigarettes.  One ad said that they are “composed of medical herbs, flowers and berries”.  I wonder which ones?

This is another advertisement found in the Alabama Times dated February 8, 1930.  I still haven’t been able to find information about the Alabama Times, as the two newspapers in Alabama that I have called so far (The Huntsville Times and The Birmingham News) have never heard of this newspaper.

Anyway, the advertisement is for Dudley Sweet Gum Company in Nashville, Tennessee.  I have a sneaking suspicion that this is the Dudley Gum Company.  I am unable to find anything, really, on the company.  I’m not sure how long it was around.  I won’t go into a history of Sweet Gum, but I will say that the burrs sure do hurt when you step on them barefoot!

WANTED-25,00 LBS. OF SWEET GUM

(Which is the Sap of the Sweet Gum Tree)

We pay $1.50 per pound for Sweet Gum, provided it comes to us clean (must not have any dirt or bark in it).  Tap your trees, gather, clean and ship in to us in gallon molasses buckets.  If you want particulars write us.

DUDLEY SWEET GUM COMPANY

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

Oh, this is such a fantastic advertisement from 1934.  Seriously, when I first saw this I immediately ran to my scanner.

I did a quick search for the doctor advertised and there is quite a bit of information about him, but it’s mostly books of medical reports, some court cases where he was a witness and an obituary for his wife in 1916.  I have not, however, found anything about the procedure promoted below. 

I can only use my imagination.

Tonsils Removed

in My Office

15 Minutes…

One treatment only required

Removed without pain, knife or blood, or shock

Patients can leave my office in a few minutes.  Hundreds cured—Many of them do not lose a day’s work.

Price $25.00

PILES CURED IN THE SAME WAY

One lady, 73, drove her car home in another city in 10 minutes.  Five cases from Piedmont, Ala. cured in about an hour’s time.

W.H. Holbrook, American-European Specialist in all Chronicle Diseases.  Graduate of three of the leading Southern Medical Colleges.  Many times post graduate of the best colleges of New York and Chicago.  Have taken two courses in Europe.

Suite 607-8-9-10 Silvey Building

AT FIVE POINTS—TELEPHONE MAIN 7626

Atlanta, Georgia

I’m imagining it was a cauterization procedure that was done.  Hopefully the implements used were sterilized between patients, sanitized at the very least.  I’m sure they were, I’m just imagining someone having their hemorrhoids removed, then the same instruments being used to remove the next patient’s tonsils. 

I’m impressed with a price of $25.  Even with the price adjusted for these days (1944’s $25 tops out at a worth of about $1650 back in 2010) it is still cheaper than what it would cost today without insurance (the average cost of a tonsillectomy is just under $5500).

I also find it humorous that five clients all came over from Piedmont, Calhoun County, Alabama.  I think that the population of the town back then was just over 1000 people (but don’t hold me to that…I can’t actually see the population). 

I looked up the Silvey building and, of course, it is no longer there.  It had a Marietta Street address, and it is also described as having been on Peachtree Street.  Since I am not sure which side of the street it was on I can’t say what building is there now.

I can offer nothing concerning this advertisement today.  Really!  I looked up Dr Hildebrand’s Laboratories and found nothing.  I looked up the Alabama Times, which is the newspaper this advertisement was found in, and I couldn’t even find that newspaper!  So…

This advertisement for Dr Hildebrand’s Famous Gallstone and Liver Capsules was found in the February 8, 1930 issue of the Alabama Times.  I do have to wonder how “famous” this Dr Hildebrand could have possibly been since no information could be found on him, his “laboratories” or his products.  I’m sure I will conduct a more in-depth search one day and find something.  As for the newspaper, I really want to find out more about the Alabama Times.  Half of the page I have is missing…as in torn off.  So, I don’t even know what city in Alabama to begin my search, though my initial contact to Birmingham has yet to be answered.

While reading this advertisement I can totally hear a radio announcer speaking the words.  Crazy.  I bet someone did, during a broadcast of the Grand Ole Opry or similar.

UPDATE:

My mom searched around and found some information concerning "Dr Hildebrand".  She writes, "Dr. Hildebrand's Gall Stone Capsules and Granzow's Tonic Tablets can be found in a lawsuit US v. Frank Granzow, trading as Dr. Hildebrandt Laboratories with a plea of guilty and fined $40. The issue date was July 1936, and the date of seizure was April 17, 1933. This link gives the particulars of this lawsuit: http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/fdanj/handle/123456789/64489. The ingredients are an interesting read, particularly Granzow's Tonic Tablets which included strychnine!".  How interesting!