Tag: Adverts

Another advert for Phosferine in the Bromley & District Times from 1917, and again another genuine soldier is using it, it seems. I was at Givenchy, Festubert, Neuve Chapelle, Arras and Loos before I got the would which necessitated the amputation of my left arm.  The Hospital I was in was bombed every second day for two whole months.  A comrade advised me to take Phosferine, but I did not feel anything would put me fight, for I was suffering from rheumatism through sleeping on damp and wet ground.  I gave…

Another advert for Zam-Buk as featured in the local Bromley & District Times in 1917.   Remember this was a time before Penicillin was discovered (in 1928).   POISONED SORES Started with Blackheads Terrible Disfigurement Rapidly Cured by Zam-Buk In an interview with a London Pressman, Mrs F.E. Sharp, whose residence is St Arthingworth Street, West Ham Lane, Stanford, E., said:- “some months ago a little blackhead appeared at the side of my nose. I pinched it out with a watch key, which evidently was rusty. The result of this…

Some of us will still remember the days when we paid our fares to a bus conductor or conductress and she would give us a little ticket in various colours according to the fare and then ‘clip’ it to prove it had been used. The bus driver did just that – drive the bus in his own little cab.   State Your Destination  – advert from Bromley & District Times, August 1918      

Every few weeks an advert for Phosferine would appear, featuring a soldier and saying how it had helped him. I checked one or two of the men feature and they seem to be real names – maybe real people.   I and my mates derived great benefit from the Phosferine Tablets my wife sent out to me. I have taken part in many big actions, including the Somme and Ypres engagements, and I am now engaged on observation and signalling work, etc., for the battery, which demands a pretty cool…

That is what the children say when their Cuts, Scrapes and Bruises are dressed with Zam-Buk. They have that soon-get-better feeling at once, because Zam-Buk banishes pain and stops the broken flesh from getting inflames. Mother, too, knows she is doing the right thing in using Zam Buk. Zam-Buk is so pure and refined and so completely medicinal that it cannot fail to be beneficial. A mother’s worry is ended when she rubs Zam-Buk over her child’s grazed knee because Zam-Buk make sure that the would will not take bad…

At first I thought this was an overcrowded escalator, but you can see it is an open-topped bus.  It seems strange that the public needed to be informed of the safest way to ride on the buses.   Passengers should keep their arms inside the rail or passing objects may strike them, as the lady above will know to her cost.   Advert taken from the Bromley & District Times in July 1918.