Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers., "A daily nation-wide auction of perishable farm products, in which bids and sales will be transmitted from city to city by a teletype network, has been planned by a corporation which is registered in Nevada as the Farmers Market System."
Hayden, Victor F. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1927-09-30
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36783
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 8, Part of Annual Report of the Executive Secretary, APA. Page 2., Provides a case example of efforts by farm publishers to identify and thwart fraudulent advertising.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24915
Notes:
Bulletin No. 48. Page 2., Lawyer's brief includes the following in connection with a refusal to register the trade mark, Limestone Brand, a carthartic medicine, because the medicine did not contain limestone: "Ivory is a good trademark for soap and is not made of ivory. Gold Dust washing powder is not made of gold. There is no bull in Bull Durham. Pearline contains no pearls, and White Rock is water. There is no cream in Cream of Tartar, in cold cream or in chocolate, no milk in magnesia, in milkweed or in the cocoanut. These are all as remote from the cow as the cowslip. There is no grape in grapefruit, or bread in breadfruit. A pineapple is neither pine nor apple; a prickly pear is not a pear; an alligator pear is neither a pear nor an alligator, and a sugar plum is not a plum. Apple butter is not butter. All the butter is taken out of buttermilk, and there is none in butternuts, nor in buttercups, and the flies in the dairy are not butterflies."
"The moral of this is that the apple growers ought to undertake co-operative advertising campaigns that would create a greater market here at home." An early call for generic advertising of agricultural products?
