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Flour Your Consideration, Holly Flour

April 22nd, 2008 @ 12:56 am by Cliffe | Sorted Vintage Adsborder
As wheat and other grain prices surge upward, we can look back to a time when it wasn’t quite as pricey. Check out this early 1900’s ad for Holly Flour and the Mills of Lilly, Bogardus & Co. of Seattle. It makes me nostalgic for a time when speculators didn’t jerk our lives around so much. Give the image a click while you’re thinking of the old times.
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“This is the Flour that makes the Bread that makes the Men of Alaska. Its Holly Flour that’s what it is. From the Mills of Lilly, Bogardus & Co., Seattle.” Early 1900’s advertisement.

2 Responses:

  1. didi wrote:

    I am soooooooo nostalgic for those nifty 1900s threads!

  2. Jonathan S wrote:

    And is the woman blind? Where’s her measuring cup? Does she know how much flour she’s putting in that bowl? Is she even following a recipe?! The bread probably DOES make the men of Alaska, it makes them have intestinal distress!

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