Todays Fun Friday features offbeat Ephemera 

I love finding pamphlets and paper that utilizes some zany ideas to advertise products. Here is our list: 

[TRADE CATALOG] Hog Killin' Days - Prize Recipes for Curing and Smoking Hams, Bacon, Sausages;. Portable Elevator Mfg. Company. Bloomington, Illinois: Portable Elevator Mfg. Company, 1918. Staplebound. Unpaginated [20 pages]. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Illustrated catalog featuring a variety of products manufactured by Portable elevator Mfg. Company, most notably... (#2523) Price: $65.00

White House Cereals - Recipe Book; Natural Brown Rice, White Rice - Ricena, Rice Flakes. Standard Rice Company, Inc. Houston: Standard Rice Company, Inc., c. 1930's. Staplebound. 47 pages. 17x 13 cm. Colorful die-cut promotional recipe booklet featuring the various products produces by Standard Rice Company. Interior clean and... (#2390) Price: $35.00

Good Things to Eat Made With Bread; Containing Tested Recipes Compiled for The Fleischmann Co. Neil, Marion H. New York: The Fleischmann Co., 1916. Staplebound. 32 pages. A surprisingly sophisticated recipe pamphlet declares, in the introduction, to be focused on Children: "Children are by instinct great bread eaters... (#2521) Price: $15.00

[RADIO] Fun Fare; A Booklet of Party Plans - Games, Menus, and Recipes - For. Fisher, Helen Stevens - "Little Lady of the House" N.D.C., 1939. Youngren, Max. Staplebound. 30 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Written by one of Chicago's women of the "Golden Age of Radio," Helen Stevens Fisher, best known as "The... (#2527) Price: $75.00

[DIE-CUT] [POSTCARD] IDAHO Russet Potatoes - World's Finest. c. 1939. Cards. 18 x 9 cm. Illustrated folding postcard featuring Idaho Potatoes. Interior illustration "IDAHO RUSSETS - FINEST FOR MASHING, STEAMING, FRYING, BAKING - cooked potato along with recipes... (#2528) Price: $40.00

[MENU] Le Toubib (the doctor); Édité par le "Mictasol" Paris: Dreager Imp. c. 1930's. Cards. 18 x 14 cm. (open). Amusing illustrated blank menu distributed by the drug Mictasol, a treatment for gonorrhea. Light toning to paper. (#2529) Price: $30.00

[ADVERTISING] [COFFEE] THE HISTORY of our AMERICAN FLAG; Compliments of INSTANT CHASE & SANBORN. 1969: Standard Brands, Inc. Staplebound. Unpaginated. [12 pages] 10 x 8 cm. Fully illustrated pamphlet utilizing American soprano, Kate Smith, known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"... (#2530) Price: $15.00