If you're not already jaded from an inundation of Black Friday advertisements, you may enjoy our first installment of "Incidentally Archived."
These are newspaper ads that happened to fall on the same page as an important news article or within a notable edition. The ads were therefore archived along with the relevant story.
Our favourite is a 1912 ad for Chiclets chewing gum:
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The Toronto World, 17 July 1912
Chiclets are not made of horse-mint or swamp-mint.
A beneficial sedative for the nerves of Indoor People, they can also be used for covering one's modesty. |
Other categories include...modern conveniences:
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| Canadian Illustrated News, 16 Feb. 1878 |
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| Canadian Illustrated News, 16 Feb. 1878 |
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| The Toronto World, 21 May 1911 |
...cereal products
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The Catholic Record, 17 July 1912
Luscious, feathery cornflakes |
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| Extension, July 1911 |
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| Extension, July 1911 |
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| The Globe, 17 July 1912 |
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| Canadian Illustrated News, 16 Feb. 1878 |
...clothing
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| The Irish Canadian, 13 June 1877 |
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| The Irish Canadian, 13 June 1877 |
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| The Catholic Record, 17 July 1912 |
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The Evening Telegram, 12 May 1911
The March of Modern Ingenuity |
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| Catholic Register and Canadian Extension, 18 May 1911 |
...travel
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| The Mail and Empire, 17 July 1912 |
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The Globe, 17 July 1912
Did you know that mosquitoes are unknown in the Muskoka Lakes? |
...home remedies
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| The Toronto World, 21 May 1911 |
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Canadian Illustrated News, 16 Feb. 1878
The least convincing before and after? |
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Extension, July 1911
This is the age of drugless healing.
Beware of dangerous imitations. |
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| Canadian Illustrated News, 16 Feb. 1878 |
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The Globe, 17 July 1912
You are feeling old, and you begin to look it. |
...and pest control.
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Catholic Register and Canadian Extension, 25 July 1912
All that indescribable nastiness. |
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