THE EVENING SENTINEL—SOUTH NORWALK. CONN.
The haWker of yesterday who cried his tin—es in the public '
places is now-hut vaguely remem hered — swallowed up in yes-
terday’s seven thousand years. '
Today the news of goods for sale becomes an indelible re-'
cord of human achievement.
, . You may take, for instance, the history of transportation in
America and read that extraordinary tale oi progress in an un4
broken series of advertisements in the files of newspapers -'- ad-
vertisements that inform us of each progressive step from the
sailingfoisloops out of Boston for Philadelphia in the days of
Franklin, to the flight of the Air Mail from Mitchel Field to San
Franciscoinourown day.
You may read the startling story of the revolution in house-.-
hold economy and the emancipation of the American wiie and
home-builder In the advertisements of the la st twenty- -live ~
But in today’s papers you find an even more amazingrecord
—theadvertisementsoiradio outfits , automobile equip-
me.,nt electrical appliances,iooodstuiis, clothing, meficines
Ahmgswhrchhaveralsedourcrvrhnhontoaplanehrgherthan
theworldhaseverlmown Doyouquiterealizethat in thue
advertisementsyouareexaminingacontemporary contrihutiarf y "
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