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Chris Scott
Chief Inspector
Username: Chris
Post Number: 763
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 12:40 pm: |       |
Among the newpaper research I have done I have seen frequent adverts using Jack as a slogan. the one below, from the Atlanta Constitution of 7 August 1892, must be one of the most tasteless, by modern standards. The range of products which used Jack's name is surprising and usually, as in the case below, entirely unconnected.
Chris
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Christopher T George
Inspector
Username: Chrisg
Post Number: 486
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 2:58 pm: | |
Hi Chris
Interesting and yes, I agree, maybe a bit tasteless. The format reminds me more of old-time cigarette cards, since the idea seems to be give interesting information then to hawk the product, as might be the case say with a cigarette card showing W. G. Grace, the cricketer, on one side then on the other side gives facts on his career and an advertisement for Player's Weights Cigarettes.
All the best
Chris |
Christopher T George
Inspector
Username: Chrisg
Post Number: 487
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 3:00 pm: | |
P.S. It looks like this is a series of ads referencing a particular date and things that happened on that date, is that right? I suspect other issues would have other historical occurrences on the date the ad appeared. Can you confirm?
Chris |
Alexander Chisholm
Detective Sergeant
Username: Alex
Post Number: 55
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 8:09 pm: | |
Interesting find, Chris, and I think t’other Chris is right to identify a sort of “on this day in history” theme.
Although I haven’t come across such a graphic link to JtR in 1888 adverts, the following did appear in several newspapers.
THE WHITECHAPEL MURDER. - Dr. L. Forbes Winslow gives it as his opinion, speaking as a physician, "that whatever is the malady we have to combat with, attempts should be made to do so in its earliest stage, and not wait until the disease has completely laid hold of the victim." Lamplough's Pyretic Saline supplies a safe and reliable antidote to all diseases arising from disordered stomach, indigestion, and liver troubles, and may be had at Chemists everywhere. - [ADVERTISEMENT] (Daily Telegraph, 20 Sept. 1888, page 3)
Clearly, the Whitechapel indigestion-sufferer may never have taken to murder had he been able to partake of Lamplough’s Pyretic Saline in time. But it was not only Whitechapel murder that was cynically exploited is sales pitches of the time, as the following exhibits:
THE UNEMPLOYED IN EAST LONDON. – At a time when much thought is being given to this matter, a practical suggestion may be of service. Last year more than £300,000 worth of foreign matches were purchased by inconsiderate consumers in this country, so true is it that “evil is wrought from want of thought, as well as want of heart.” If all consumers would purchase Bryant and May’s matches, that firm would be enabled to pay £1,000 a week more in wages, and large numbers of the unemployed in East London would thus be provided with work, instead of swelling the ranks of pauperism. [ADVERTISEMENT.] (Daily Telegraph, 15 Nov. 1888, page 8)
Here again we have a simple solution to one of the biggest blights on Victorian London. The degeneration of the East End could be reversed at a stroke, well many strokes, as long as those strokes were on Bryant & May matches, and not some Johnny-foreigner’s vestas.
Fascinating area, probably worthy of further research. Nice one Chris.
Best wishes
alex
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R.J. Palmer
Inspector
Username: Rjpalmer
Post Number: 240
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 9:20 pm: | |
Ah, tacky American advertising... Along similar lines, I found an ad in an American paper awhile back, circa 1889. It was for some food product--- I forget which. In bold letters it said "Don't Poison Your Family!" and had a picture of 'Mrs. Maybrick.' |
Caroline Anne Morris
Chief Inspector
Username: Caz
Post Number: 550
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2003 - 3:11 am: | |
The Whitechapel Murderer the product of an upset tummy?
Don’t poison your family like Mrs M did?
What were you thinking, Alex and RJ, selling people ideas like this, and straight out of contemporary sources?? 
Have a great weekend all, and watch what you eat next week. Remember the Two Ronnies’ festive observation?
“We punish our guts with fruit and nuts ‘cos there’s nothing else to do.”
Perhaps it should be:
“We punish our brains with theories insane when there’s so much else to do.”
Love,
Caz 
(Message edited by Caz on December 19, 2003) |
Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 1591
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2003 - 3:36 am: | |
Does anyone know whether the Press was used to advertise "Ripper alarms" or anything like that? (E.g. huge handbells that tuck neatly under the dress...the sky's the limit).
Robert |
Carlo
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Sunday, June 27, 2004 - 1:53 pm: | |
If they such things, people would call it :
Dead woman walking...... |
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