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Australian Advertising of Yesteryear: False and Funny

Believe It Or Not?

"It Is this penetrating property of smoke which makes Catarrh'!
Cigarettes so extremely effective In reaching nnd
clearing out those tubes And cavities of the air
passages which could not he reached by any other
means. Being heavily medicated the smoke of
Catarrhos Cigarettes carries the remedy to all
those remote parts of the respiratory tract where
CATARRHOS MEDICATED CIGARETTES"

 The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954)  Wed 9 Jul 1924

Sorry, Biscuits Aren't Health Food

Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sunday 21 July 1912

Who Knew?

Must Be Dangerous!

Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Sunday 28 May 1944

The Artist Tailor?

Propeller (Hurstville, NSW : 1911 - 1954), Thursday 1 May 1941

There was a cure all along!

Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Saturday 14 November 1908

Believe this? If so, I've got a block of land of the moon to sell you.

Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Tuesday 8 April 1919

Fly high, fly wide—and stay handsome (but, what does this mean?)

Walkabout.Vol. 22 No. 3 (1 March 1956)