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In the United States in the 1960s, public health advocates focused on limiting the advertising of tobacco products. In 1971, cigarette advertisements were taken off of the air (television and radio). This led marketers to shift their money over to print media: billboards, newspapers, etc.
Centaur Liniment advertising included a purported endorsement from P.T. Barnum. [7] One famous ad had the company represented by Barnum's famous circus star Jumbo, the giant elephant. Another ad featured the legendary boxer Joe Louis. [8] In the 1920s, Centaur was one of the earliest advertisers targeting women directly. [9] "Their advertising ...
Modern advertising was created with the innovative techniques used in tobacco advertising beginning in the 1920s. [14] [15] Advertising in the interwar period consisted primarily of full page, color magazine and newspaper advertisements. Many companies created slogans for their brand and used celebrity endorsements from famous men and women ...
In the late 1920s, the brand was sold as an avenue to thinness for women. One typical advertisement said, "Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet." [6] Sales of Lucky Strikes increased by more than 300% during the first year of that advertising campaign. Sales went from 14 billion cigarettes in 1925 to 40 billion in 1930.
Emigh-Winchell Hardware Company: 1920s. Santa Claus is front and center in this display within a window display circa 1920s that's all about toy trucks, cars and bikes.
A Kotex newspaper advertisement from 1920 Kotex ad, painted by Coby Whitmore (1950). Kotex (/ ˈ k oʊ t ɛ k s /) is an American brand of menstrual hygiene products, which includes the Kotex maxi, thin and ultra-thin pads, the Security tampons, and the Lightdays pantiliners.
Old Gold was introduced in 1926 by the Lorillard Tobacco Company and, upon release, would become one of its star products. By 1930, with the aid of a campaign from Lennen & Mitchell that featured exuberant flappers and the slogan "Not a cough in a carload", Old Gold won 7% of the market.
In the 1920s, you could buy a pair of pajamas for $1.00, and a woman’s skirt for just a little bit more – between $1.20 and $1.75. You could have two men’s suits pressed for $1.00.