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today during that brief interlude between too cold (yesterday) and too
hot (next week). As many of you know, I live in a house that my grandparents
bought in 1917. They never really moved out, just died. My grandfather
died in 1960. After that my Uncle Homer lived here and then my parents
moved in about 1968. They, too never moved out - just went to the nursing
home in 2001, and I moved in in 2002 to a fully furnished - fully everything
house and barn. Much of the "treasure" I have found here has gone to my
museum out in the barn. I am still sorting and finding interesting STUFF.
Anyway in today's exploratory venture into the attic I found still
another box of magazines dated 1906 to 1949 - mostly from the 1920s. This
is about the third such box of old magazines I have found and they are
probably left over from my Uncle Homer's 1960s residence here. He was an
inveterate collector and accumulator of all things bright and beautiful,
dull and ugly and so on. (I am glad I'm not like that :) These are
Ladies Home Journal, Saturday Evening Post, McCall's, etc.
Once I had shaken off the accumulated debris on each, I ended up with a pile on which the 21 NOV 1925 Saturday Evening Post was on top. That being the case I started thumbing through, looking particularly at the advertisements. It's always a surprise to me how many of the brand names and products we still use today were available in 1925. We have to remember, though, that many of the electric appliances that were advertised were not really available to our rural populations who did not get "electrified" before the mid 1930s. However, it is interesting to see how many of our "modern conveniences" were already on the market to be purchased and enjoyed. I compiled the following list of the ads including the brand , company
and product. I have also scanned a few of the illustrations. What fun!!
You can't crawl around in the attic with me but you can enjoy a dust free
version of my latest yield of OLD STUFF!! What could you buy in 1925? Lots!!
But no computers.
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| Norman Rockwell | Cover Painting - Kids playing football |
| Goodrich Zippers | Fashionable Rubber Overshoes with zippers for men, women, children |
| Society Brand Clothes | For Young Men Who Stay Young |
| Ivory Soap | 99 44/100 % Pure & it floats |
| Campbell's Tomato Soup | 12 cents a can |
| Swift Premium Hams & Bacon | |
| Vacuum Oil Company | Lubricating Oils for Manufacturing |
| Hupmobile Eight | 13,500 (automobiles) sold in eleven months |
| Buick | When Better Automobiles are Built, Buick will Build Them |
| Fisher Bodies | Body by Fisher |
| Grape Nuts Cereal | Post Health Products |
| Nitro-Valspar | Lacquer Finish for autos |
| Gabriel Balloon Type Snubbers | Rubber Tires |
| Real Silk Hosiery | Real Silk Hosiery Mills, Indianapolis |
| Eveready Flashlight Batteries | |
| Mennen Skin Balm | Shaving Cream |
| Schrader Pneumatic Valves | Tire Valves, Gauges |
| Doran Books | |
| Palmolive After Shave Talc | |
| Steinway | Pianos |
| Williams Shaving Cream | Aqua Velva is our newest triumph |
| Oakland Six | 6 Cylinder General Motors Auto |
| Johnson & Johnson | Tribute to Graduate Nurses |
| Monroe High Speed Adding - Calculator | |
| Sonora Radio | |
| Federal Tires | |
| National Steel Fab ric Co. | |
| Armstrong Linoleum | |
| Budd - Michelin | All Steel Wheel for autos |
| Victrola | Electrola and Radiola in one cabinet |
| DuPont | Duco Finish - For auto bodies - enduring finish |
| Jantzen | The Coat to wear anywhere |
| Mulsifed | Hair product to maintain healthy hair "Beauty Insurance." |
| Simmons Chains | Watch Chains |
| Maxwell House Coffee | Good to the last drop |
| Park Overcoat | |
| Paramount Pictures | Nine movies listed |
| Ansonia Squareclox | clock |
| Thomas Cook & Son | Book Steamers to Tour Europe |
| Edison Mazda Lamps | A General Electric Product |
| Burgess Radio Batteries | |
| The Country Gentleman | Magazine |
| Arnold Glove Grip Shoes |
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| Stewart-Warner Accessories | Floor type heaters for automobiles |
| Edgeworth | Smoking tobacco |
| RCA Radiotron | Vacuum tubes |
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| American Hangers, Pulleys | American Pulley Company |
| Buss Light | Electric lamp |
| U. S. Royal | Balloon Tires - United States Rubber Company |
| Frigidaire | electric refrigerator |
| Ben Wade Pipes | Tobacco pipes |
| Hartford Fire Insurance Co. | |
| Freed-Eisman | World's Largest Manufacturer of Neutrodyne Radio |
| Philco Batteries | |
| Brer Rabbit Molasses | |
| Kohler Plumbing Fixtures | |
| Mohawk Carpet Mills | |
| Dalton | Adding Machine |
| Church Sani-White seats | Toilet Seats |
| Richardson Roofing | |
| Eskimo Pie | 5 cents |
| Perfection Oil Heaters | |
| Chrysler Four | Chrysler auto |
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| Creo-Dipt Stained Shingles | |
| Stanley Tools | |
| Moore Pen | |
| Walworth Valves & Fittings | |
| Star-Rite | Toasters, Waffle Makers, Electrical Necessities |
| Glenn L. Martin Co. | Aero B Battery Eliminator |
| Aetna Life Insurance | |
| Sun Maid Raisin Bread | |
| Middishade Blue Serge Suits | |
| Sargent Locks & Hardware | |
| Splitdorf | Radio Receivers |
| Spencer Water Heaters | |
| Winterfont | Automobile Radiators |
| Carnation Evaporated Milk | From Contented Cows |
| Bird's Neponset Products | Roofing, Floor Coverings |
| International Typewriter Exchange | Typewriter prices cut |
| Glover's Sleep wear | |
| Home Comfort Weatherstrip | |
| Manning - Bowman | Electric Appliances |
| Grinnell Pipe Fittings | |
| Standard Diaries | |
| Robt. Burns Cigars | |
| Hammermill Bond Paper |
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| White Star Line | West Indies Cruises |
| Q Genuine Macaroni | Untouched by Human Hands |
| Vivi Kid | Women's shoes - make foot look smaller than it is |
| Hanes Underwear | Elastic Knit Winter Underwear |
| Bicycle Playing Cards | |
| Unipower | Radio |
| Toga Towel | The New Way to Dry Yourself |
| Pebeco | Toothpaste |
| Follansbee Forge | Steel |
| Beeman's Pepsin Gum | Chewing Gum |
| Gem Nail Clippers | |
| Wellsworth Products | For Better Eyesight |
| Daisy Air Rifles | |
| International Trucks | |
| Coca-Cola | |
| Kroehler Davenport Bed | Convertible Sofa |
| Buescher | Saxophone |
| Spratt's | Dog Cakes & Puppy Biscuits |
| Barreled Sunlight | Lustrous White Paint so smooth it washes like tile |
| Johnston's Chocolates | |
| Great Northern | A dependable railway - The New Oriental Limited |
| Eagleknit caps | |
| Amity | Leather wallet |
| Gulbransen | The registering piano |
| Walk-Over Shoes | for men and women |
| Staynew Filter Corp. | Automobile filters |
| Whitney Dressmore Shirts | Wachusett Shirt Company |
| Woodstock Electrite | Electric Typewriter - Woodstock Typewriter Co. |
| X-Liquid | Repairs leaks in auto radiators |
| Banker's Supply Company | Checkbook Supplies - Talk to your banker about the advantages of a checking account |
| Florsheim shoes | |
| Packard Shoe | |
| Warner Liquid Solder | Stop auto radiator leaks |
| Brown Shoe Company | Buster Brown Shoes for boys & girls |
| The Francisco Auto Heater | |
| W. L. Douglas Shoes | |
| Pathe Radio & Phonograph Company | |
| Weyerhauser Forest Products | |
| Curtis Publishing Company | Ladies Home Journal, Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman |
| Daniel Hayes Company | Gloves since 1854 (Gloversville NY) |
| Kolynos Dental Cream | Sound teeth can be kept sound. |
| Cupples | Tire tubes |
| Puritan Chocolates | |
| American Telephone & Telegraph | Bell System |
| Eureka Vacuum Cleaner | |
| Riddle | Decorative Lighting Fitments |
| Old Dutch Cleanser | Makes Everything Spick and Span - Chases Dirt. |
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