"You think you understand the advertising business, do you?"
"Understand it? Why, I could keep any man's name before the public -- even if he were the vice president of the United States."
-- Brooklyn Life.
Aug. 2, 1896: An ad man, droll and dapper
The Minneapolis Tribune combined this all-purpose illustration with an amusing two-liner that made the rounds in the late 1890s.
August 2, 2012 at 3:01AM
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Ben Welter
It’s too soon to tell how much the immigration crackdown is to blame.
