USA: Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08947
Notes:
Page 5 in Lucinda Crile, Findings from studies of bulletins, news stories, and circular letters. Extension Service Circular 488. Revision of Extension Service Circular 461, which it supersedes. May 1953. 24 pages. Brief description of Bulletin 2, Department of Agricultural Journalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 1929. 14 pages.
USA: Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08951
Notes:
Page 7 in Lucinda Crile, Findings from studies of bulletins, news stories, and circular letters. Extension Service Circular 488. Revision of Extension Service Circular 461, which it supersedes. May 1953. 24 pages. Brief summary of U.S. Extension Service Circular 78. 1928. 17 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22481
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Agricultural Publishers Association Record, Jan 1, 1920 - Jul 1, 1920, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 3, University of Illinois Archives., Agricultural Publishers Association Departmental, Associated Advertising Clubs of the World Convention, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 8, 1920. 2 pages., Emphasizes importance of the farm papers in rural homes and communities.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28509
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Pages 6-10 in proceedings of the Agricultural Publishers Association meeting at the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World Convention, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 7, 1920.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22478
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Agricultural Publishers Association Record, Jan 1, 1920 - Jul 1, 1920, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 3, University of Illinois Archives., Agricultural Publishers Association Departmental, Associated Advertising Clubs of the World Convention, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 7, 1920. 5 pages.
Cites advertisements of questionable effectiveness, including one with a headline, "Big spring boars" accompanied by a large portrait of a man and his wife.
Discusses the causes of prejudice against advertising schools. Argues that such schools have "come to stay. The critics have emptied their quivers but the school goes merrily on, teaching its students how to study human nature, how to study commodities, how to devise selling plans, how to write effective copy, design attractive displays, etc."