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Calumet Baking Powder Cookbook/Ad, 1916

Or, the Cream of Tartar Baking Powder vs. Alum Baking Powder WARS - pt.2


Here's the 2nd of Grandma's old cookbooks from two different Baking Powder Companies, both of them diss the other guy's product. This one has a lot of nice art, and some really scandalous accusations!!

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SFW  )
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Oddly Direct Insurance Ad

from Bizarre Insurance Adverts

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Click the link above to discover Chet Stickrod, "One Ferret...or 20,000,000 Human Lives" and much more. (Well, two more.)
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RED Weekend - The Louden Machinery Company Catalog, 1916

I love this - it just GLOWS red.

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This is their catalog, which you can see a version of HERE at ebay.

Can we get a machinery tag, please?

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Movie Poster

One of my favorite silents.....a French serial from 1915/16.....

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Purple Weekend: Dresses!

Rayon, 1957

Again with the "Orchids to...!" exhortation!  Very odd.

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A. E. Lefcourt & Co., Suits for Ladies and Misses, 1916

And I love the whimsy of this one.
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