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Author: International Harvester Company of America. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: Crown Press, Chicago, Ill. Product advertised: International Harvester Company farming tools. General notes: An advertisement in verse for farming tools. An unhappy, poor farmer is visited by a "thrift sprite" named Prospy, short for Prosperity (supplying an acrostic poem as an introduction). Illustrated.

Author: None identified. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: George A. Clark. Product advertised: Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton thread. General notes: Illustrated booklet with poem about lifetime use of O.N.T. thread.

Author: None identified. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: Chase & Sanborn. Product advertised: Seal Brand Coffee and Fine Teas. General notes: Illustrated history of American colonial and military flags.

Author: None identified. Illustrator: Providence Lith. Co.. Published by: Chase & Sanborn. Product advertised: Seal Brand Coffee and Fine Teas. General notes: Illustrated history of American colonial and military flags.

Author: True, Barbara. Illustrator: Satterfield, Bob. Published by: Building Economy, Cleveland. Product advertised: Bricks. General notes: Mr. Herbert Brown (husband) and a salesman convince Mrs. Mary Brown (wife) that bricks are better for building their new house.

Author: None identified. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: Dr. J.C. Ayer and Co., Lowell, Mass.. Product advertised: Ayer's Sarsaparilla. General notes: Illustrated notecard with poem about health and beauty benefits of Ayer's.

Author: None identified. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: George A. Clark. Product advertised: Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton thread. General notes: Illustrated booklet with poems describing travels of three white explorers. Contains racist depictions and offensive terms describing non-white cultures in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

Author: Pond's Extract Co.. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: Pond's Extract Co., NY. Product advertised: Pond's Extract products. General notes: Aesop's fables in booklet, "rewritten in modern way with illustrations to attract and embellished with hints about Pond's Extract."

Author: None identified. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: Jaques Capsule Company, Plattsburg, New York. Product advertised: Jaques Little Wonder Capsules. General notes: Illustrated nursery rhymes featuring Jake and promoting health benefits of Jaques products.

Author: None identified. Illustrator: H. A. Thomas and Wylie. Published by: Charles E. Hires Company, Malvern, Penn.. Product advertised: Hires Rootbeer. General notes: Children's poems and illustrations as well as advertisements for health benefits of Hires Rootbeer, the "National Family Temperance Drink."