SLEEPY EYE TIN SIGN, “THE MERITORIOUS FLOUR”, MINNEAPOLIS, MN.
Pictured is a beautiful tin sign for the Sleepy Eye Flour Brand, produced by the Sleepy Eye Flour Milling Company of Minneapolis, MN.
HIRES ROOT BEER USED YOUTHFUL IMAGES TO SELL A “ROSY COMPLEXION AND HEALTH”!
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”. …
