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...While the exact process by which Bovril is distilled from meat is secret, Bovril, Ltd. has never attempted to conceal the fact that it takes 20 to 30 pounds of good lean beef to make one pound of Bovril. This circumstance is cunningly suggested by the Bovril poster, which shows a shaggy and slightly dilapidated steer staring at a bottle of Bovril with a wild surmise that is elucidated in the caption: "Alas! My poor brother." Bovril sales took a big jump during the influenza epidemic of 1918 when it became standard British hospital diet. Bovril profits - some...
...interpret this poster," he observed, "one side caricatures Chinese figures. One of them is smoking a pipe, evidently opium, and is lying upon a shelf in the same room with other figures who are employing various insanitary methods of washing clothes. Mice are running around. It seems to me that the printing and pictured effigies on this sign constitute criminal libel . . . and it seems to me that the picture attempts to ridicule all Chinese laundrymen including the complaining witnesses in this case...
Defendants Moskowitz and Rudikoff were charged with criminal libel. Denied was a motion to bring similar charges against the Manhattan & Bronx Laundry Owners' Association as distributors of the poster...
Business has been none too good for the Eldredge Company Inc., poster printers of Brooklyn. N. Y., but Secretary Elwin Martin Eldredge, pink with pleasure, swore that never in his life had he had such a wonderful Christmas present as the one he received last week...
...choice of subects and the rules of the contest are announced on a poster which has been distributed to all institutions of higher learning. Essays must be submitted to the headquarters of the Foundation in Philadelphia not later than September 15, 1932, and are limited to 5000 words. A number of prominent professors of German at some of the leading American colleges and universities have agreed to serve as judges...