Keep mom inebriated and the baby will enjoy the benefits too. Who came up with this inane advertisement?
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Friday, July 16, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
What Was That? An Early Auto Accident
Auto accidents always have a memorable impact on those involved. Unfortunately, they all too often result in serious injury and death.
In 1918, residents in the city witnessed something new in their experience. A vehicle accident on the street in front of their apartments.
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Saturday, July 3, 2010
It’s Never Too Early To Start Shaving
Who knows what goes through the minds of advertisers. Approval of this campaign boldly proclaimed the detachment from reality enjoyed by all involved.
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
Tap Lightly and Don’t Smoke
Civil War: Union soldiers removing the powder from Confederate torpedoes at James River, Virginia in 1864.
Life expectancy of the sappers was short. The powder shack sat in a deep gully to protect others in the area from any unexpected explosion.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
The Quiet Man
After a long week of hassles at work, home or on the road, taking a break to watch a well acted movie without the crudity and flashing of flesh seen so often today is a welcome escape.
Put the 1952 classic movie, “The Quiet Man” in the player, sit back and enjoy John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara in the 1933 story by Maurice Walsh… Life is good..
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Putting the Pepsin in Gum
Dr. Edward E. Beeman invented and marketed a chewing gum made of pepsin powder and chicle as an aid to digestion.
Sales of Beman’s “Original Pepsin” Chewing Gum ceased in 1978 but was later produced again in a nostalgia campaign.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Remembering D-Day
Sixty-six years ago, at 6:30 AM, 6 June 1944 the Alllied invasion of France commenced in Normandy to free Nazi occupied Europe.
160,000 troops landed on the five assault sectors now well-known by the world as Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword.
They were supported by 195,700 naval and merchant personnel.
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