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January 15, 2017

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Hire's Root Beer Self-Framed Oval Bead Sign. Circa 1900

HIRES ROOT BEER USED YOUTHFUL IMAGES TO SELL A “ROSY COMPLEXION AND HEALTH”!

SodaBy Randy HuetschJanuary 15, 2017

I find it interesting today to learn how the Charles Hire Root Beer Company cleverly used a long standing marketing strategy of showing healthy children to sell their soda brand.   The Hires Root beer brand was marketed as creating “strength, a rosy complexion, and beauty, while supplying the nerves and brain with a blood purifier”.  …

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