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WANTED
MEN AND WOMEN WITH IDEAS
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We're looking for ah advertisement that will tell everyone just how wonder* ful electric ccoking ik. If you think you can make up an ad like this, send it along and if we like your idea well use it in 30 newspapers of this area. In addition to giving you credit in the ad for your idea, we'll select the advertisement we think best and send its originator his choice of a toaster,
table lamp, etekric dock, or hand iron.
You don't have to be an artist... just make up any sort of rough drawing ... cut pictures out of magazines or newspapers if you wish... then write the reasons why you like to use electric cooking. That's all there is to it.
- [ [J . * . ! . .. . Hints* Most housewives prefer to cook electrically because it's (1) Clean, there's no smoke, soot or fumes; (2) Fast, heat is applied diractly to the cook* ing utensil; (3) safe; (4) Economical. You don't have to use thes? features, however, in your ad. We want your ideas, so use your own imagination.
•nhiM mmr he received by January 31, 195?
and become the property of the Potomac idhon
System Advertising Department. If you want tj> become an ad writer, just send your idea tot Advertising Department,! N< rthern Virginia Power Co., Hagerstown, Md.
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