Press Adverts - Horticultural [and domestic household]

  • Cooper McDougall & Robertson Ltd
Date:
c 1933 - c 1939
Reference:
WF/C/M/GB/A/02
Part of:
Wellcome Foundation Ltd
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

This volume contains c 250 numbered pages, but pp. 90-208 and pp. 228 onwards are blank. There are also some blank and unnumbered pages in the volume.

Dates are given for some advertisements, but not for others. Place of publication is given for some advertisements, but not for others. Where these are recorded, apostrophes have been given as in the volume, not necessarily as would have been grammatically correct (the usage of 'Coopers' has been standardised to make the catalogue clearer, and is not as used in the original material).

There is no original index to this volume.

The advertisements in pp. 209-227 relate primarily to domestic household rather than horticultural products.

ADVERTISEMENTS AS FOLLOWS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME, WITH PAGE NUMBERS GIVEN:

AROMATAR SHAMPOO BASE 213 ('Watts brothers are ready ...' from 'Watts Brothers Ltd'), 214 ('Your clients will pay more ...' from 'Hairdresser & Beauty Trades Journal' and 'Hairdressers Weekly Journal'), 216 ('Your clients will pay more ...' from 'Hairdressers Weekly Journal' and 'Hairdresser and Beauty Trade Journal')

AROMATAR SHAMPOO BASE / OLIVIA GREEN SOFT SOAP 219 ('Quick to prepare & easy to use ...' from 'Northern Counties Hairdressers Federation 1937'), 221 ('Quick to prepare & easy to use ...')

CHISWICK SHAMPOO BASES 217 ('Used and Recommended ...' from 'Institute of Trichologists')

COOPERS LAWN SAND / COOPERS WORMKILLER / COOPERS LEATHER JACKET EXTERMINATOR 2 ('For Lawns, For Greens')

COOPERS PRODUCTS 21 (promoting Weedkillers, Fumigants, Lawn Dressings and Fruit Tree Banding as follows: COOPERS WEEDICIDE, McDOUGALL'S PERFECT SAFETY WEEDKILLER, COOPERS LAWN SAND, COOPERS POWDER WORMKILLER, McDOUGALL'S INSECTICIDE FUMERS, KEROL SOIL STERILISING FLUID, COOPERS SOIL FUMIGANT, COOPERS WHITE FLY FUMIGANT, McDOUGALL'S OSTICO)

COOPERS SPECIALITIES FOR ORCHARD AND GARDEN 0 [first page] (promoting COOPERS SUMMER SPRAY FLUID, McDOUGALL'S NO.2 FRUIT TREE WASH, COOPERS ARSENATE OF LEAD PASTE, COOPERS FUNGICIDE, McDOUGALL'S INSECTICIDE FUMERS, COOPERS WHITE FLY FUMIGANT, COOPERS LAWN SAND, COOPERS WORMKILLER, LEATHER JACKET EXTERMINATOR, KEROL SOIL STERILISER, VERMIN & WASP CHOKERS, PERFECT SAFETY WEEDKILLER, KATAKILLA, WEEDICIDE), 4 ('Orchard & Garden', promoting KATAKILLA & McDOUGALL'S PERFECT SAFETY WEEDKILLER, but also Coopers veterinary products - Arsenicol, Coopers Powder Dip, Coopers Special Warble & Cattle Wash - obtainable from J Mawle & Sons, Banbury, Oxfordshire), 20 (promoting KATAKILLA, McDOUGALL'S TAR OIL WINTER WASH (OVICIDE), COOPERS SUMMER SPRAY FLUID, COOPERS WINTER SPRAY FLUID, COOPERS ARSENATE OF LEAD PASTE, TREE SCRUBBING BRUSHES, COOPERS FUNGICIDE, KATAKILLA HAND SPRAYER), 24 (promoting COOPERS SUMMER SPRAY FLUID, COOPERS ARSENATE OF LEAD PASTE, McDOUGALL'S INSECTICIDE FUMERS, INSECTICIDE SHEET, COOPERS WINTER SPRAY FLUID, McDOUGALL'S TAR OIL WINTER WASH (OVICIDE), McDOUGALL's OSTICO, GREASE PROOF BANDS, BANDING COMBS, also promoting Coopers Dog Products - PULVEX VERMIN POWDER, KEROL CAPSULES FOR DOGS, KUR-MANGE, SOPEX, LIQUID SOPEX), 30 (promoting COOPERS LAWN SAND, COOPERS WORMKILLER, KATAKILLA, WEEDICIDE, McDOUGALL'S OVICIDE TAR OIL WINTER WASH, McDOUGALL'S OSTICO), 39 (promoting McDOUGALL'S TAR OIL WINTER WASH, ARSENATE OF LEAD PASTE, COOPERS LAWN SAND AND WORMKILLER, KATAKILLA, WEEDICIDE, also promotes COOPERS SHEEP DIPPING POWDER, 'order from Clegg & Son, Wantage', from 'Wantage Almanac and Directory 1933'), 52 (from 'Ridgeon's Catalogue', promoting WEEDICIDE, McDOUGALL'S PERFECT SAFETY LIQUID, COOPERS PERFECT SAFETY POWDER, KATAKILLA, OSTICO, READY-GREASED BANDS)

DRYMAC DERRIS DUST 60 (x2, one 'Ugh! A Maggot' from 'Popular Gardening' & 'Amateur Gradening', one 'Ugh! Caterpillars!' from 'Popular Gardening'), 61 (x3, one 'Drymac Derris Dust for Clean Cabbages' from 'Amateur Gardening', one 'Drymac Derris Dust for Raspberry, Beetle & Cabbage Caterpillars' from 'Popular Gardening', one 'Drymac Derris Dust for Raspberry, Beetle & Cabbage Caterpillars' (larger, showing bowl of fruit) from 'Horticultural Trade Journal' and 'Nurseryman & Seedsman'), 62 ('Drymac Derris Dust' from 'Popular Gardening'), 73 (from 'Popular Gardening' and 'Amateur Gardening'), 74 (x4, one 'No More Maggoty Rasperries' from 'Amateur Gardening' and 'Popular Gardening', one 'Protect Root Crops', one 'Root Crops can be protected ...', one 'Turnips and other root crops', these last three from 'Farmer & Stockbreeder'), 75 (for No. 1 & No. 2 dusts, No. 1 'For Controlling Turnip Flea', No. 2 'For controlling raspberry ...', from 'Kent Farmers' Journal'), 78 ('Drymac Derris Dust ...', from 'Daily Telegraph'), 79 ('Wipe out Flea Beetle with Drymac No. 1', also promoting HANDIMAC POWDER DISTRIBUTOR, from 'British Sugar Beet Review'), 83 ('Drymac No. 1' from 'Farmer & Stockbreeder'), 89 (x3, one 'I've no more Maggoty raspberries!' from 'Amateur Gardening', other two both 'No more Maggoty raspberries!' (very similar) from 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail')

'FRUIT TREES' 82 (illustrated by photograph, promoting KATAKILLA, OSTICO, McDOUGALL'S TAR OIL WINTER WASH, SULFINETTE, with Yalding address given)

IMPERIAL SOFT SOAP 210 ('The Finest Soap ...' from 'H & E Bulletin')

KATAKILLA 2 ('Pest Destruction'), 3 (x2, one 'Green Fly - When this pest appears spray at once ...', one 'Good Plants Deserve a Good Spray, Poor Ones Need It', also promoting McDougall's Insecticide Fumers Sheets, McDougall's Perfect Safety Weedkiller), 5 ('Spray this year with Katakilla'), 7 ('The Non-Poisonous Insecticide for Fruit, Flowers & Vegetables'), 8 (x4, all 'Green Fly - When this pest appears spray at once with ...', all slightly different sizes), 9 (x2, both 'Green Fly and Caterpillars ...', different sizes), 17 ('Why You Should Spray With ...'), 22 ('Green-Fly and Caterpillars...'), 25 ('Green-Fly and Caterpillars'), 26 (x2, both 'Green-Fly and Caterpillars', but slightly different shapes), 27 (x4, one 'Keep Trade Lively', one 'Don't Miss the Seasonable Trade', two 'Green-Fly and Caterpillars ...' (different sizes)), 28 (x2, one 'Green-Fly and Caterpillars', one 'For Good Money ...'), 29 ('Green-Fly and Caterpillars ...'), 'Green-Fly and Caterpillars'), 31 (x3, one 'The Raspberry Beetle...', one 'Green-Fly and Caterpillars...', one 'Greenfly is upon us!), 32 (x2, one 'Don't miss the seasonable trade', one 'Green-Fly is about!'), 33 (x4, all 'Green-Fly and Caterpillars', but slightly different shapes and sizes, and three different types of wording), 34 ('Green Fly!'), 35 (x2, both 'Green-Fly and Caterpillars ...'), 36 (x2, both 'Green-Fly and Caterpillars', but slightly different wordings), 42 (x2, both 'Green-Fly and Caterpillars ...', one from 'Guild Gardener' (with black stripe), one from 'Daily Express' and 'Daily Mail'), 43 ('£50 worth of extra prizes ...' from 'Evening Standard'), 44 (x4, all with coupons with slightly different wording, from 'Amateur Gardening', 'Popular Gardening', 'Gardening Work for Amateurs', 'Gardeners Chronicle', 'Gardening Illustrated', 'Home Gardening'), 45 (x6, identical 'Green Fly and Caterpillars ...', one each from 'Amateur Gardening', 'Garden Work for Amateurs', 'Home Gardening', 'Gardeners Chronicle', 'Popular Gardening', 'Gardening Illustrated'), 46 (x6, identical 'Green Fly and Caterpillars ...' with coupons, one each from 'Amateur Gardening', 'Garden Work for Amateurs', 'Home Gardening', 'Gardeners Chronicle', 'Popular Gardening', 'Gardening Illustrated'), 47 (x3, one 'For Green Fly use Katakilla' from 'Daily Express', one 'Greenfly!' from 'Daily Mail', one 'Greenfly! There're Greenfly ...' from 'Popular Gardening' and Amateur Gardening'), 48 (x2, both 'Green Fly and Caterpillars', one from 'Homes & Gardens', other (showing packet) from '"The Garden" by W E Sherwell Cooper'), 49 ('Don't Miss the Seasonable Trade' from 'Horticultural Trade Journal', 'Horticultural Advertiser', and 'Nurseryman & Seedsman'), 50 ('Greenfly!, from 'Sainsbury's Garden List'), 51 ('Spray that Green Fly with ...', from 'Amateur Gardening Annual', also promoting McDOUGALL'S TAR WINTER WASH, OSTICO, WEEDICIDE, McDOUGALL'S PERFECT SAFETY WEEDKILLER, with photographic illustrations), 58 (x6, all 'Spray it with Katakilla', two with rose and four with insect, two from 'Home Gardening', one from 'Garden Work for Amateurs', one from 'Gardening Illustrated', two from 'Amateur Gardening', 'Popular Gardening' and 'Gardening Illustrated'), 59 (x5, three 'Spray it with Katakilla', from 'Daily Mail', 'Daily Express', 'Daily Herald' and 'News Chronicle', one 'Spray it and Slay It' from 'Daily Mail' and 'News Chronicle', one 'Spray it with Katakilla' (longer advertisement) from 'Guild Gardener'), 60 (x2, one 'for Perfect Roses' from 'Chelsea Show Catalogue', one 'That Reminds Me ...' from 'Nurseryman & Seedsman' and 'Horticultural Trade Journal'), 65 (x2, both 'For Perfect Roses ...', one 'Carter Page & Co.'s General Catalogue', one from 'Civil Service Horticultural Federation' (slightly larger)), 70 (x3, one 'Greenfly!' from 'Sainbury's', one 'For Perfect Flowers and Fruit' from 'Mount Pleasant (GPO) Horticultural Society', one 'For Your Garden' also advertising WEEDICIDE, TAR OIL WINTER WASH and DRYMAC DERRIS DUST, from 'John Aitkins Catalogue'), 72 (x4, one 'For Perfect Roses' from 'Guild Gardener', one 'No More Green-Fly!' from 'Amateur Gardening', 'Popular Gardening', 'Home Gardening', 'Garden Work and Amateurs' and 'Gardening Illustrated', one 'No More Green-Fly!' (smaller), one 'Kill Green-Fly!', these last two both from 'Daily Mail', 'Morning Post', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'News Chronicle'), 73 (x2, one 'No More Green-Fly!' from 'Daily Mail' and 'News Chronicle', one 'For Perfect Roses' from 'Amateur Gardening', 'Popular Gardening', 'Garden Work for Amateurs', 'Home Gardening', and 'Gardening Illustrated'), 78 ('Katakilla kills Greenfly', from 'Amateur Gardening'), 79 (x4, one 'Katakilla the Standardised Derris Spray' from 'Daily Mail' and 'Daily Telegraph', three 'Katakilla kills Greenfly', smallest from 'Garden Work for Amateurs', 'Gardening Illustrated', 'Gardeners Chronicle', 'Daily Mail', 'Daily Telegraph', 'The Times', and 'News Chronicle', tallest from 'Amateur Gardening', 'Popular Gardening' and 'Home Gardening', other from 'Morning Post'), 80 (x4, one 'Katakilla the Standardised Derris Spray' from 'Amateur Gardening', rest 'Katakilla kills Greenfly', largest from 'Daily Mail' and 'News Chronicle', tallest 'Amateur Gardening', 'Popular Gardening' and 'Home Gardening', other from 'Daily Mail', 'News Chronicle', 'Daily Telegraph', 'Morning Post', 'The Times', 'Garden Work for Amateurs', 'Gardening Illustrated' and 'Gardeners Chronicle'), 81 (x2, one 'For Perfect Roses ...' from 'Chelsea Show Catalogue', one 'Katakilla Kills Greenfly', also promoting DRYMAC DERRIS DUST, from 'Daily Mail' and 'Daily Telegraph'), 84 (x2, one 'Katakilla kills Greenfly' from 'Rose Annual', one 'Kill Greenfly with ...' from 'Guild Gardener') KATAKILLA / WEEDICIDE 1 (x2, one 'Manufactured by Cooper McDougall & Robertson (Scotland) Ltd', one also promoting McDOUGALL'S PERFECT SAFETY WEEDKILLER, McDOUGALL'S OVICIDE, McDOUGALL'S OSTICO), 8 ('For Better Gardens', also promoting McDougall's Perfect Safety Weedkiller, 'obtainable from S R Thompson Ltd, Ironmongers .... Maidenhead'), 18 ('Garden Specialities ...', also with COOPERS SUMMER SPRAY FLUID, COOPERS ARSENATE OF LEAD PASTE, McDOUGALL'S TAR OIL WINTER WASH (OVICIDE), COOPERS LAWN SAND, COOPERS POWDER WORMKILLER, McDOUGALL'S INSECTICIDE FUMERS, COOPERS WHITE FLY FUMIGANT, LEATHER JACKET EXTERMINATOR, KEROL SOIL STERILISER, VERMIN & WASP CHOKERS, McDOUGALL'S PERFECT SAFETY WEEDKILLER), 19 (x2, one 'Specialities', also promoting COOPERS LAWN SAND, McDOUGALL'S PERFECT SAFETY WEEDKILLER, McDOUGALL'S INSECTICIDE SHEETS, McDOUGALL'S TAR OIL WINTER WASH (OVICIDE), one 'Preparations', also promoting COOPERS LAWN SAND, COOPERS WORMKILLER, McDOUGALL'S OVICIDE, McDOUGALL'S OSTICO), 23 (also promoting McDOUGALL'S PERFECT SAFETY WEEDKILLER, agent's address for W Drummond & Sons Ltd, Dublin, given), 38 (also promoting OSTICO and McDOUGALL'S TAR OIL WINTER WASH (OVICIDE)), 39 ('Cooper Products for your Garden', from 'Stewards Brewill's 1933 Catalogue'), 40 (also promoting McDOUGALL'S PERFECT SAFETY WEEDKILLER, OSTICO, McDOUGALL'S TAR OIL WINTER WASH (OVICIDE), from 'Amateur Gardening Annual 1933')

KEROL DISINFECTANT 212 (also promoting VAPLAMPS and FUMIFORM OUTFITS, from 'Local Government Manual and Directory'), 214 ('Six good reasons for using ...' from 'National Association of Administrators of Local Government Establishments'), 217 ('White Kerol', from 'Sanitarian'), 218 ('White Kerol ...' from 'Royal Sanitary Institute'), 220 ('Safe - powerful - Economical - White Kerol ...' from 'The Sanitarian, April Issue' [no year given]), 222 ('For health and safety in schools ...' also promoting McDOUGALL'S CARBOLIC SOAP and McDOUGALL'S PRIMROSE SOAP, from 'Approved Schools Gazette', 1939), 227 ('You can rely on White Kerol')

KEROL FUMIFORM OUTFITS 219 (from 'Sanitarian')

KINGHAM'S AURELIA SOFT SOAP 214 ('...does it all!' from 'W Kingham & Sons')

McDOUGALL'S CARBOLIC SOAP 217 ('Made to the specification ...' from 'Local Government Manual and Directory')

McDOUGALL'S DERRIS PREPARATIONS 71 ('For Better Fruit and Flowers', also promoting KATAKILLA & DRYMAC, from 'Gardening Illustrated')

McDOUGALL'S DOUBLE STRENGTH WEEDKILLER 78 ('Kills Weeds & Moss', from 'Amateur Gardening' and 'Popular Gardening'), 82 (x3, all 'Kill Weeds and Moss', largest from 'Gardeners Chronicle' & 'Gardening Illustrated', smallest from 'Daily Mail', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'News Chronicle', other from 'Morning Post'), 83 (x2, both 'Kill Weeds and Moss', smaller from 'Daily Mail', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'News Chronicle', larger advert publication unclear), 86 ('Kill Weeds and Moss ...' from 'Gardeners Chronicle'), 88 (x3, one 'Kill Weeds and Moss with this new Weedkiller!' from 'Gardeners Chronicle', other two both 'Kill Weeds and Moss in one operation!', wider from 'Gardening Illustrated', narrower from 'My Garden')

McDOUGALL'S FUMERS 52 (from 'Home Gardening', 'Popular Gardening'), 65 (x2, one 'Run Rebecca! He's Put a Match To It!' from 'Amateur Gardening' and 'Popular Gardening', one 'Augusta! I'm asphyxiated!')

McDOUGALL'S OSTICO 9 ('Band your fruit trees with ...'), 10 (x2, both 'Band your fruit trees with...', one also 'Ovicide - The Best Tar Oil Winter Wash'), 11 ('Band your fruit trees with ...'), 12 (x2, one 'Band your fruit trees with ...', one 'Ostico Banding season'), 13 (x3, one 'Band your fruit trees with ...', one 'Good returns assured ...', one 'Band your fruit trees with ...' in coupon form), 14 (x3, one 'Band your fruit trees with...', one also promoting McDOUGALL'S OVICIDE, one also promoting KATAKILLA, OVICIDE and PERFECT SAFETY WEEDKILLER), 15 ('Band your trees with ...'), 28 ('Band your fruit trees with ...'), 36 ('Use Ostico for Banding Fruit Trees ...'), 37 (x3, two 'Use Ostico for Banding Fruit Trees ...' but one larger than the other, one 'A Quick Selling Line ...'), 49 ('Good returns assured', from 'Horticultural Trade Journal', 'Horticultural Advertiser' and 'Nurseryman & Seedsman'), 62 ('Now's the Time to order Ostico' from 'Horticultural Trade Journal'), 63 (x4, one 'Come down, Gladys! that's an Ostico', one 'We're Done Ethel! it's an Ostico', one 'Road blocked, Mabel! it's an Ostico', one 'Well, I'm Ostico'd', all from 'Amateur Gardening', 'Home Gardening' and 'Popular Gardening'), 64 (with McDOUGALL'S OVICIDE TAR OIL WINTER WASH, from 'Mansill's Seed Catalogue', Yalding address given), 76 (x8, one with McDOUGALL'S STANDARD TAR OIL WINTER WASH from 'West Cambridgeshire Growers Association', one 'Protect Fruit Trees Now' from 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Morning Post', one 'Band Fruit Trees Now' from 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Morning Post', two 'Just over 1d per tree' (one with tree picture, one with band picture), both from 'Farmers Weekly', one 'Diddled, Doris!', one 'You're Stuck, Muriel!', one 'No admittance, Madam!', these last three from 'Amateur Gardening'), 77 (x5, one 'Protect Fruit Trees Now' from 'Amateur Gardening', one 'Protect Fruit Trees Now' (larger), from 'Guild Gardener', one 'Now is the time...' from 'My Garden', two 'Just over 1d per tree' from 'Daily Mail' and 'The Times'), 78 ('Now is the time ...' from 'Amateur Gardening'), 79 ('Now is the time ...', from 'My Garden'), 84 ('Sound Fruit next season ...')

McDOUGALL'S OVICIDE TAR OIL WINTER WASH 15 (x2, one 'A Rich Fruit Crop', one 'Vigorous Sales for a Vigorous Insecticide'), 16 (x3, one 'Judged by Sales, Judged by Profits ...', one 'Save Next Year's Fruit Crop Now ...', one 'No Pests Next Spring ...'), 17 (x4, two 'No Pests Next Spring ...', one 'The Standard Wash ...', one 'Save Next Year's Fruit Crop Now ...'), 29 (x3, one 'For all-round satisfaction ...', one 'For Clean Trees and Healthy Fruit ...', one 'Spray Fruit Trees Now ...'), 30 (x2, both 'Clean trees mean better fruit ...', one larger than the other), 39 (from 'Amateur Gardening', 'Popular Gardening' & 'Gardeners Chronicle'), 66 (with WEEDICIDE, from 'Arthur East Ltd, Watford - Catalogue'), 67 (x4, two 'Wake Up Harriet!', two 'You're Lost in this Wash, Children', one of each from 'Sussex Express' and 'Surrey Advertiser'), 68 (x6, three 'Wake Up Harriet!', three 'You're Lost in this Wash, Children', one of each in 'Express & Echo', 'Kent Messenger' and 'Bideford & North Devon Gazette'), 69 (x6, three 'Wake Up Harriet!', three 'You're Lost in this Wash, Children, one of each from 'Dover Express', 'Bexhill on Sea Observer' and 'Deal Walmer & Sandwich Mercury'), 77 (x3, one 'Pest Free Fruit' with image of fruit, from 'Amateur Gardening', two 'Pest Free Fruit' with image of tree, one each from 'Daily Mail' and 'Daily Telegraph'), 78 ('Pest-Free Fruit', from 'Eastbourne Gazette & Herald', mentions G T Scott, Florist, Eastbourne), 81 ('Pest-Free Fruit...', from 'Provincial Press' (collective term?))

McDOUGALL'S PERFECT SAFETY WEEDKILLER 53 (x3, identical, one each from 'Popular Gardening, 'Home Gardening' and Amateur Gardening'), 55 (x6, almost identical with slight differences in size, two each from 'Home Gardening', 'Popular Gardening', one from 'Amateur Gardening', and one from both 'Amateur Gardening' and 'Popular Gardening'), 56 (x8, four small and four large, small advertisements all from 'Daily Mail', three large adverts from 'Home Gardening' and one from 'Popular Gardening'), 71 (x2, one 'In Situations Where ...', one 'McDougall's Perfect Safety Weedkillers ....', both from 'Home Gardening', 'Popular Gardening' and 'Amateur Gardening'), 72 (x2, one 'Harmless to animals and poultry', one 'Deadly to weeds ...', both from 'Daily Mail'), 74 ('No more back-aching labour' from 'Guild Gardener')

MUNICIPAL FLUID 220 ('ARP', c. 1938)

OLIVIA SHAMPOO / SHAMPOO BASE 209 (x2, larger from 'Hairdressers Weekly Journal' and 'Hairdresser Beauty Trade Journal', smaller advert publication unclear), 210 ('We Want you to try Olivia' (larger) from 'Hairdressers Weekly Journal', 'Just write Olivia' (smaller) from 'Hairdresser Beauty Trade Journal'), 211 (x2, one 'Lather!' from 'Hairdressers Weekly Journal', one 'Get a Firm Grip!' from 'Hairdressers Weekly Journal' & 'Hairdresser & Beauty Trade Journal'), 212 ('Lather!' from 'Northern Counties Hairdressers Federation Year Book')

PRIMROSE SOFT SOAP 225 ('Memo:' from '1939 Annual List Edwin Blakemore & Sons) PYNOL (GERMICIDE / ANTISEPTIC) 223 (x2, one 'Ask at Stand No. 8...' from 'Royal Sanitary Institute Catalogue' 1939, one 'A Complete Antiseptic & Germicidal Agent ...', from 'Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute'), 225 ('Try this new disinfectant' from 'First Aid & Nursing Guide'), 226 ('Try this new antiseptic' from 'The Trichologist' Dec 1939)

RED POPPY SOFT SOAP 211 ('Best for all general domestic purposes ...' from 'Kearley & Tonge'), 213 (x3, one 'The Rapid Cleaner' from 'Williamson & Threadgold', one 'Soft Soap does more work' from 'The Grocer', one also promoting RED POPPY TOILET ROLLS from 'Grocers Year Book and Directory'), 214 (x2, one 'Memo:' from 'Cave Austin & Co', one 'Ask for Red Poppy ...' from 'Roberts & Roberts'), 215 (x2, one 'Red Poppy for Cleaning' from 'Hudson Bros Ltd', one 'A Soft Soap That ...' from 'Grocers Gazette'), 217 (x2, one 'Lovely Hands ...' from 'Handbook of the Leek Urban District Council', one 'Customers repeat orders for ...' from 'Kinghams'), 218 (x2, one 'Cleanse your plates ...' from 'Kearley & Tonge', one 'Soft Soaps ...' also promoting PANSY and IMPERIAL soaps, from 'H G Kingham & Co.'), 219 ('for every household use ...' from 'Williamson & Treadgold Pricelist 1938), 222 ('Wash your plates ...' from 'Leek Housing Handbook and Southampton Tenants Handbook' 1939), 224 ('Save your hands ...' from 'International Stores Pricelist' 1939), 226 ('Cleanse your plates ...' from 'L T C Price List')

RED POPPY TOILET ROLLS 219 ('Specially manufactured ...' from 'Report of the Royal Infirmary, Sunderland', Mar 1938), 221 (x3, one 'Here's the toilet paper that will save you money ...', two 'Why pay more for less?' (one larger than the other), all three from 'Kentish Express', 'Ashford News', 'Kent Messenger' (not clear which is which))

'SEND FOR THIS FREE BOOKLET' 71 ('The Care of Lawns & Paths', promoting KATAKILLA, DRYMAC, OSTICO, from 'Good Gardening' and 'West Herts & Watford Observer') 'SOFT SOAPS FOR THE PERFUMERY TRADE' 212 (from 'Soap, Perfumery & Cosmetics Year Book') SULFINETTE 79 (against Mildew, Big Bud, Scab, Brown Rot, from 'Daily Mail'), 80 (x2, 'Lime-Sulphur for better fruit', one each from 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail'), 81 (against Mildew, Big Bud, Scab, Brown Rot, from 'Amateur Gardening'), 82 ('Now is the time ....' from 'Daily Telegraph')

THE SMALLHOLDER'S GUIDE 64 (listing numerous Coopers products with purpose, including for animals)

VAPLAMPS 218 (for Formaldehyde disinfection, from 'The Sanitarian', Oct 1937), 219 ('A Safe & effective means ...' from 'The Sanitarian, March Issue' [no year given])

WEEDICIDE 3 (x4, one 'Which Will You Use', one 'The Weedkilling Season', one 'Weedicide Kills Weeds', one 'Kill those weeds!'), 5 (x4, two 'Down Tools' - one of which has 'write now for descriptive leaflet' appended, two 'Weedicide Kills Weeds', one larger than the other), 6 (x2, one 'Besides Killing Weeds, Weedicide Brings you in a Handsome Profit', one ' You can always sell weedicide'), 11 ('You can always sell Weedicide in August'), 19 ('Quick Profits'), 22 (x2, one 'The Weedkilling season ...', one 'A Good Seller'), 25 (x3, two 'Down Tools' (one smaller than the other), one 'Weedicide Kills Weeds ...'), 26 (x3, one 'For Good Profits ...', one 'Down Tools ...', one 'Weedicide Kills Weeds ...'), 28 (x2, both 'Weedicide kills weeds ...', one larger than the other), 30 ('Don't lose your temper ...'), 31 (x2, one 'Good Quick Profits ...', one 'Don't Grouse ...'), 33 ('Don't Grouse ...'), 35 (x3, all 'Kill Those Weeds ...', but slightly different shapes), 36 ('A Good August Seller'), 41 (x4, one 'Weedkilling by Coopers' from 'Horticultural Trade Journal', 'Horticultural Advertiser', 'Nurseryman & Seedsman', three 'Weedicide Kills Weeds ...', one from 'Homes & Gardens', one from 'Guild Gardener', one from 'Amateur Gardening', 'Popular Gardening', 'Gardeners Chronice', 'Gardening Illustrated', 'Garden Work for Amateurs', 'Home Gardening'), 42 (x2, one 'Weedicide Kills Weeds' from 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Morning Post', one 'Besides Killing Weeds ...', from 'Horticultural Advertiser', 'Horticultural Trades Journal' and 'Nurseryman & Seedsman'), 43 ('Down Tools ...' from 'Bayley's Catalogue'), 47 ('Weedicide Kills Weeds' from 'Amateur Gardening', 'Popular Gardening', 'Garden Work for Amateurs', 'Gardeners Chronicle', 'Gardening Illustrated', and 'Home Gardening'), 48 ('Now - Kill those weeds!' from 'Amateur Gardening', 'Popular Gardening', 'Garden Work for Amateurs', 'Gardeners Chronicle', 'Gardening Illustrated', and 'Home Gardening'), 53 (x6, three similar 'Economical Killing', one each from 'Gardening Illustrated', 'Popular Gardening', and 'Morning Post' and 'Daily Telegraph', two 'Less Weeds, More Results', one each from 'Home Gardening' and 'Amateur Gardening', one 'Every Weed Has Seed', from 'Amateur Gardening'), 54 (x3, one 'Economical Killing' from 'Amateur Gardening', 'Home Gardening' and 'Garden Work for Amateurs', one 'Make a Weedicide Drive this season' from 'Horticultural Trade Journal', one 'Main-Lines to Brighten Sales' (also promoting McDOUGALL'S PERFECT SAFETY WEEDKILLER) from 'Horticultural Trade Journal'), 57 (x9, three ' Less Weeds More Results', one from 'Daily Telegraph & 'Morning Post', one from 'Popular Gardening', one from 'Gardening Illustrated', three 'Every Weed Has Seed', one from 'Daily Telegraph & 'Morning Post', one from 'Popular Gardening', one from 'Gardening Illustrated', three 'Kill from Below', one from 'Daily Telegraph & 'Morning Post', one from 'Popular Gardening', one from 'Gardening Illustrated'), 58 (x3, one 'A Fig for a Thistle!' from 'Daily Telegraph', one 'Get to the Root of the Trouble' from 'Morning Post' and 'Daily Telegraph', one 'Get to the Root of the Trouble' (different shape) from 'Guild Gardener'), 64 ('Weeds Appear Everywhere' from 'Nurseryman & Seedsman'), 66 ('For Your Garden', from 'Elphick & Son's Catalogue', also with PERFECT SAFETY LIQUID WEEDKILLER, KATAKILLA, McDOUGALL'S FUMERS), 71 (x2, one 'Weedless Paths', one 'No more back-aching labour!', both from 'Home Gardening', 'Popular Gardening' and 'Amateur Gardening'), 72 (x2, one 'Weedless Paths', one 'No more back-aching labour', both from 'Morning Post' and 'Daily Telegraph'), 82 ('Rid paths and drives of weeds ...' from 'Daily Telegraph'), 83 ('Rid paths and drives of weeds ...' from 'Amateur Gardening', 'Gardeners Chronicle' and 'Gardening Illustrated'), 86 (x2, both 'Why Didn't I Use Weedicide?', taller from 'Amateur Gardening', shorter from 'Daily Telegraph'), 87 (x4, one 'Why didn't I use Weedicide?' from 'Daily Telegraph', one 'Oh Dear! Why didn't I use Weedicide?' from 'Field', one 'Oh, dear me! Why didn't I use Weedicide?' from 'Gardening Illustrated', one 'Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Why ever didn't I use Weedicide?' from 'Gardeners Chronicle'), 88 ('Oh, dear me! Why didn't I use Weedicide?' from 'Country Life')

'YOUR GARDEN NEEDS THIS HELP' 85 (promoting 'McDougall's Horticultural Products' - KATAKILLA, OSTICO BANDING COMPOUND, DRYMAC DERRIS DUST, DOUBLE STRENGTH WEEDKILLER, OVICIDE TAR OIL WINTER WASH, SULFINETTE LIME-SULPHUR WASH, from 'Amateur Gardening Annual'), 86 (promoting 'McDougall's Horticultural Products' - KATAKILLA, OSTICO BANDING COMPOUND, DRYMAC DERRIS DUST, DOUBLE STRENGTH WEEDKILLER, OVICIDE TAR OIL WINTER WASH, SULFINETTE LIME-SULPHUR WASH, from 'Arthur East's Catalogue')

'YOUR WINDOWS WORTH MONEY' 7 (promoting contest for best window display)

p. 39 is headed 'Pulls of Advertisements 1933', but it is not clear for how long this applies in the volume.

p. 51 is headed 'October 1933 Advertisements', but it is not clear for how long this applies in the volume.

Publication/Creation

c 1933 - c 1939

Physical description

1 item

Copyright note

Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust

Ownership note

Please see main WF collection description (ref. 'WF').

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