The billboard (Apr 1917)

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APRIL 28, 1817. The Billboard HERE, AT LAST, IS A NOVELTY™" A Transforming Pictures OUR NEW PROCESS Have caught on. You don't have to argue about their good points—just show them and they will do the rest. This is the best street selling article being offered today. We have many patriotic subjects, war se- ries, comics, etc., and these are going like wildfire. One street man in New York made $19 the first 5 hours. You see on the right illustration showing Liberty Bell. By heating, move lighted match against card; this will cause Liberty Bell to disap- pear; Uncle Sam as shown on the left will appear. If you can't sell these you can't sell anything! There are other novelties, but here Is one that sticks out among other novelties like a wart on an eel's back. No better medium 'for the advertiser has ever been devised, for Instead of gaining passing attention they carry their lesson Home in a last- ing way. They area big live-wire hit for Moving Picture Exhibitors, Actors, Streetmen, Carnival Com panies, Music Publishers, Circuses, Bazaars, Fair Business Firms that want to bring out their produce anything and everything in any size. SAMPLE PACKAGE OF 20 25c PREPAID FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS, WHITE AT ONCE THE CHRISTIAN-SMITH CORPORATION, 220 Wert ^ 2 #W UNITED STATES SEAL FOBS Warranted and stamped 14-kt. gold plate on genuine bronze, with fine, heavy leather strap. .$4.80 GROSS. BSQt We bought 700 gross of this timely patriotic article at less than one-half i the actual manufacturing cost. KARL GUGGENHEIM, 531 Broadway, NEW YORK. PATRIOTIC BOW PINS Crayon P WANTED FOR ST. LOUIS AMUSEMENT CO. Musicians of all kinds for American Band, especially Cornet. Wire or write quick, LEO CARRELL, Bandmaster, Johns, Ala. NOW OPEN PORTABLE IMPROVED--STATIONARY TALLY BALL 10 BALLS, lOc NO BLANKS. Fascinating, Entertaining, Profitable. THE NEWEST ROLL DOWN GAME. Nothing Electrical and Nothing To Get Out of Order. 7C-00 i Shipped anywhere cat, *** " ~~ on deposit of 810.00, balance C. O D. AGENTS «m make big profits Belling Tally Ball to saloons and road house*. H. G. W. MFG. SALES CO., 430 W. 45th St., N. Y. PATRIOTISM Is in Die Air. ErayoiB Will Snow His Cokis ED. HAMH