{"id":4226,"date":"2013-01-13T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/?p=4226"},"modified":"2013-01-13T07:20:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T07:20:23","slug":"old-advertisements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2013\/01\/13\/old-advertisements\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Advertisements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dad sent me the following selection of old print advertisements the other day. They make interesting reading and provide a fascinating insight into the ways in which we and society have changed in the last forty or fifty to a hundred years. I wonder if, in a similar time span, we will look back on the current crop of advertisements with a similarly bemused outlook. My personal favourites: Cocaine toothache drops (what’s not to like), guns as suitable Christmas gifts, the tapeworm diet (as mentioned here<\/a> before) and how television benefits your children. Click an image to see a larger version.<\/p>\n

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