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“A New Year Bouquet for Marie” – Bartlesville, Oklahoma (1914)

July 20, 2024 No Comments

Miss Marie Crouch lived in Roseburg, the county seat of Douglas County in the Umpqua Valley of southwest Oregon. In the early 20th century, Roseburg

The Marketing of Margarine – Swift & Company (1914)

November 18, 2022 No Comments

This is the second (and last) of the advertising postcards celebrating margarine that I acquired this year. In the earlier postcard story, we considered how

Advertising Oleomargarine – Swift & Company (1914)

September 7, 2022 No Comments

Oleomargarine, an emulsion of fat with evenly-distributed water molecules, was first produced in France – to win a scientific competition to meet the war needs