For about last two or so months, I’ve subscribed to a news archive for access to wartime articles. While the basic searches I’m doing are mostly to confirm things I’ve written, I have found other interesting things, namely the ads. More than a few have made my jaw drop just a little (“Are you miserable due to periodic female weakness?”), and my first reaction is always “that’s wrong in so many ways.” Of course, as my father in law tells me often, “it was a different time, and you could say a lot of things you can’t now.”
Ain’t that the truth. I read the ad to someone I know and nearly got a WWE style smack down. Just good ole’ western snake oil repackaged as veggie compound to cure PMS. Spam is spam, no matter the era; except then, it ran in the newspaper.
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