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“It’s just the flu.”

1905 ad for Horsford's Acid Phosphate — 1905 ad for Horsford’s Acid Phosphate

Let’s go back to calling influenza “the grippe”.

Did you know acid phosphate was one of the original ingredients in Coca-Cola and essential at soda fountains?

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This entry was posted in vintage ads and tagged acid phosphate, advertisement, advertising, antique, flu, grippe, health, healthcare, influenza, marketing, medicine, soda, soda fountains, sour, tonic, vintage, vintage ads on March 21, 2023 by Clayton Hove.

Be smart. Be brave. Be vaccinated.

Cover illustration by Dick Sargent for The Saturday Evening Post’s March 3, 1962, issue.

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This entry was posted in art, magazines and tagged dick sargent, doctor, health, healthcare, medicine, retro, saturday evening post, vaccination, vaccine, vintage on July 27, 2021 by Clayton Hove.

Get a grippe.

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Thanks to this display at an auction, I now know that influenza/flu used to be known as the grippe.

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This entry was posted in vintage ads and tagged advertising, antique, display, health, healthcare, marketing, medicine, quack, retro, vintage on August 14, 2019 by Clayton Hove.

For Constipation and Biliousness

I am pleased to say I went home with the true jewel of the auction.

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This entry was posted in vintage ads and tagged advertising, antique, banner, health, healthcare, marketing, medicine, poster, retro, vintage, vintage ad, vintage advertising on August 14, 2019 by Clayton Hove.

when your child needs an enema…

Fleet Enema ad found in Today’s Health magazine, April 1956

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This entry was posted in vintage ads and tagged ads, advertising, eek, fleet, fleet enema, health, healthcare, old ad, retro ad, vintage ad on April 4, 2018 by Clayton Hove.

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Did you know Facebook’s poke feature was still a

Did you know Facebook’s poke feature was still around?

Thunfisch-Zwiebel-Sandwich

Thunfisch-Zwiebel-Sandwich

Ah, my first little North Dakota Tourism ad, way b

Ah, my first little North Dakota Tourism ad, way back when computers were steam-powered and we still had to include all that extra gibberish before the website.

I lost the argument over which line “now” should be on and it still makes me twitch, but otherwise not too shabby.

It was the Year of the Macarena.

#advertising #marketing #northdakota #branding #brands

Two nights. Two sammiches. Would you prefer more

Two nights. Two sammiches.

Would you prefer more summer sausage or more Muenster?

1962 • Perfect Endings - Chocolate Dessert and B

1962 • Perfect Endings - Chocolate Dessert and Beverage Cook Book by Nestlé’s

#cookbooks #recipes #chocolate #nestle #vintage

“Oooooh! Look at youuuuuuu! Everybody, look at M

“Oooooh! Look at youuuuuuu! Everybody, look at Mister Imagination making me all anthropomorphic by attributing human qualities to me and stuff! Ooooooh! Ooooh! Got a wee touch of the ol’ pareidolia, eh? Oooooooh!”

Today in new-to-me used hardcover books — Shady

Today in new-to-me used hardcover books — Shady Characters by Keith Houston • 2013

#books #reading #language #typography #characters #communication

Soiled Doves — What were their customers called… tainted tricks?

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