Word: patents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hager. Right out of Gasoline Bill Baker's "Pipes from Pitch men" department in The Billboard, Mr. Hager, clutching suitcase and stand, scuttles back & forth across the stage pursued by a policeman until late in Act I. Then, setting up his tripes and keister, he proceeds to vend his patent potato peeler. It is all very authentic, with many protestations that his company is really giving away its product for advertising purposes and is willing to throw in a bar of Arabian perfumed soap...
...retained a bright young lawyer named Benjamin F. Goldstein, legislative investigator of the Armour Grain scandal, who had prowled through the books of the telephone company for a minority stockholder. Mr. Goldstein, then 34, suggested that two other experienced lawyers were also needed. George Ives Haight, a gruff, strapping patent attorney and his partner, big, jovial Edmund David Alcock, joined the fight...
...TIME, do you think it was timely to take time to two-time the small-time weekly newspapers by inferring that our advertising is largely made up of patent medicine displays of the ''sore-toe" variety? In your interesting account of the new chain of weeklies on Long Island [TIME, July 9] you grieve many of us by saying they "print the sort of patent medicine advertising typical of smalltown weeklies...
...that few weeklies in the Northwest have printed much of what is commonly called "sore-toe" advertising, for the very excellent reason that little such space has been offered. Once a weekly newspaper standby, this type of advertising still appears in reduced volume, but within the columns of the "patent insides" [i. e. syndicated pages]. Many a publisher uses it either because of laziness, local news scarcity, or because he feels the "patents" give his readers a pleasant respite from such red hot local items as "Bill McSwiggerty was riding up Box Elder Crick for strayed cattle this week...
...must still bemoan the fact that while the weekly editor gets the credit for running advertising of the patent medicine type, the publisher of the "patent" gets the money, for this business is grabbed by the patent-inside publisher on a volume distribution basis...