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This week, we have fun. It's a little batch of the historian than having to go back morale when the sources do not reveal the secrets hoped or expected. Or saying is rather therapeutic to remember, in reporting some announcements tasty, if a subject is not as obvious to treat it seems, there is still some strangeness (sic) of time. Among these, I found a beer ad where the advertiser has translated FTA by WING, facilitating, I guess the pronunciation and certainly does not help the research of historians today (although a time you know ...).

So rather than my original subject (I will not reveal if one day I found Good sources, it will be in the bank), I present four newspaper ads in the city of Quebec. One way or another, they all have a little something nice. All images are from the enormous digitization efforts initiated by Library and Archives nationales du Quebec. By the way, I strongly suggest you to go sign the call for the digitization of cultural heritage Quebec by clicking the previous link. All transcripts are complete. If ever their use is not consistent with the policies of copyright, I expect to be contacted and I take them off quickly. I recall in the same breath that no direct source of income is derived from this book or reproduction of these images.

For the first such ads has long been common enough, but it is always nice to see the bows around the literary editor (published in The Canadian , February 20, 1843, p. 4)

NOTICE.

The undersigned having been informed that people have for some time, sold items as coming from his shop, a lower quality than those it manufactures, asks his friends and the public to try out those they offered, on behalf of any items in his branch. He takes this occasion to offer thanks for the encouragement he received liberal, and urges them to continue to promote it.

PIERRE ALLARD, Pastry.

St. Roch, 13 January 1843.

NB It offers for sale a quantity of brick Three Rivers, low price.

For the second, at a time when the painting was sold in slightly different ways. (The Canadian , September 20, 1852, p. 1).

Mr. Franquinet, painter, member of the Academy of Antwerp, having arrived in this city, opened his studio ST. JOHN M. Provan, confectioner. The persons who will honor the visit will find various works painted by him, including "Child St. John the Baptist" and the "Pastor Fido" after two famous paintings Marillo, who are in National Gallery of London. He intends to give lessons in pastel or colored pencils, a genre that is eminently suitable for ladies.

He also portraits in colored pencil.

Quebec, August 16, 1852.

An ad sympathetic dealer shoe ( Franc Speakerphone , July 28, 1870, p. 7).

NOTICE.

A Gentlemen Merchants.

If you find that your colleagues are selling beautiful and good shoes in detail, at the same price they cost you basically do not be surprised, but do what they do. Ask for your purchases to the undersigned, Manufacturer of wholesale shoes, Nos. 317 and 319, Rue St-Paul, Montreal.

G. BOIVIN.

Finally, an ad in the newspaper The Quebec Daily Mercury (14 février 1903. p.4). J'imagine que ce sont les mêmes « compagnies » qui aujourd'hui surveillent les accès aux comptes courriel de millions d'Internautes...

Insures love and a happy home

Health, strength and vigor for men

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"Dear Sirs:- Please accept my sincere thanks for yours of recent date. I have given your treatment a thorough test and the benefit has been extraordinary. It has completely braced me up. I am just as vigorous as when a boy and you cannot realize how happy I am."

"Dear Sirs:- Your method worked beautifully. Results were exactly what I needed. Strength and vigor have completely returned and enlargement is entirely satisfactory."

"Dear Sirs:- Yours was received and I Had no trouble in making Use of the receipt as directed, ADC and truthfully say It Is a Boon to weak man. I am Greatly Improved in size, strength and vigor. "

All correspondence IS Strictly Confidential, Mailed in plain, sealed envelope. The receipt is Free For the Asking and Every Man They Want To Have It.