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    Advertising has always been an interestin g way to look at history. But when you see these vintage advertisements, the past seems a lot stranger than you thought.   🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻    This 1880s trade card showing a mammy and her charge refers to a cigar as a "Snolegauster."    🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 "Will it ever come to this? ...It's not a bad idea."  Listerine likes the self-serving idea of making women with bad breath wear a bell around their neck to warn others of their approach.  🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Colonel Sanders sold his company and his image in 1964 to a group of investors for $2 million. KFC is now owned by "Yum" brands.    🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻  Whitman's, the candy that turns any moron into a catch.   🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the Milwaukee-based Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company was America’s largest b...