{"id":7369,"date":"2012-04-16T06:24:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T11:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=7369"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:02:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:02:31","slug":"foreign-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/04\/16\/foreign-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Grotesque Children Stereotypify Foreign Countries and WIN PRIZES!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here’s the grotesque children!<\/strong><\/em> They look like those creepy, dried apple sculptures and all seem to be breaking out in freckles or some horrid skin disease across the bridge of their noses.\"\"<\/a>…and here is their challenge!<\/p>\n

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…and the big prize is REAL coins from strange, far-away lands<\/strong><\/em>, but it gets stranger…<\/p>\n

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You’ll also get a BIG FREE CATALOG<\/strong> of wonderful PREMIUMS<\/strong> that you can get at no cost<\/em> for unloading packages of\u00c2\u00a0 White CLOVERINE BRAND SALVE<\/strong> on your friends, neighbors and relatives at 50\u00c2\u00a2 a pop. Sounds like easy American money on top of the foreign coins for taxing one’s geographical knowledge, but there are a few problems. They don’t explain what Cloverine Brand Salve <\/strong>is; why people want it or why anybody would buy it from ugly children who display a passing knowledge of other countries rather than purchase it from a local druggist.\"\"<\/a>This ad appeared in BlackHawk<\/strong> No 144 which was published in 1960 by DC Comics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the grotesque children! 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