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Written by Jane BUCHHOLZ
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Thursday, 30 July 2009 |
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 "Memories on the Porch"
Trading Stamps 
by, Jane Buchholz Gallagher
Jane is now in her second year as our monthly featured writer.
Her column "Fridays on the Porch"
appeared weekly in the "Paper of Montgomery
County" in Crawfordsville, Indiana
where she and her husband; Larry Gallagher,
our classmate and Jane's high school sweetheart
have lived for many years. There was a time in our lives when manufacturers would try to entice shoppers to buy their product by tying something of value to it for the consumer. Way, way back, feed and flour sacks were dolled up with pretty prints that the homemaker could use to make curtains and clothes. The Cracker Jack box had a toy in every box that was about the same size as just the box is today. Duz rolled towels in its soap powder, and drinking glasses came in boxes of dishwashing soap. Jelly came in little glasses stamped with pretty pictures. The milkman left cottage cheese in reusable aluminum tumblers. This must have been before manufacturing advertising budgets were spent on television commercials. Once we saw the Omar man on TV, the little promotional items that went with the bread never crossed the doorway again. The premiums went the way of the Jewell Tea man, the Fuller Brush man, and the encyclopedia salesman.
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