The Sunday News carried ads in the main news and entertainment sections for products high and low including:
Singer sewing machines
Hoover and Electrolux vacuums
Family plots at Rosemount Cemetery
Contact lenses. One company was giving away nylons with every pair.
Brioschi anti-acid for the morning after at all drug stores
Trusses. The number of ads leads one to think News readers did a lot of heavy lifting and were apt to suffer ruptures
Electrolysis
Craig-Martin toothpaste
Lemon juice as a remedy for rheumatic pain
Walter Cooke funeral homes
Preventhem to clean out bedbugs
Hearing aids
General Public Loan promising money in one day, with up to 18 months to repay, at multiple locations in the city
Ken-L-Biskit dog food containing meat now at groceries. Dogs had gone without during wartime meat rationing, My grandmother served the family dog oatmeal and bones.
High energy tonic to build up cold resistance
Carpenters and Builders Guides – 4 volumes for $6
New Home Workshop Encyclopedia- $2.98
Holt-DeLand, 56th and Broadway, which was paying up to $400 for ’36 cars. $2300 for ’42 models.
Tyrrell’s Hygienic institute which offered an explanation of why we should bathe internally
A 64-page booklet for $1 on how to get rich.
New Oldsmobiles that were now rolling off the production line, offering the new and finer Hydra-Matic drive as an option on all models
The Wybrandt system to avoid baldness
Swimming classes. Learn to swim in two weeks for $20 at the Topel Swim School at Kenmore Hall, 145 E. 23rd (Lexington)
Evening courses for an FCC license at the Melville Radio institute, Approved under G.I. bill. 45 W. 45th St
Apex sunglasses $4.95 at all leading stores.
New and improved post-war Arrid. At all toilet goods counters,
Dorothy Gray soaps, perfumes and dish powders at 685 Fifth Avenue
Harriet Hubbard Ayer scents
House of Gourielli Skin Care- 16 E. 55th Street. This shop was set up by Helena Rubinstein to keep her husband busy.
Helena Rubinstein- new Heavenly Glow makeup colors
Revlon’s Bachelor Carnation- news shade of lipstick and polish at Hearn’s
Elizabeth Arden- blue grass flower mist
Antonio’s spring short cut- 2.95. Cut, shampoo, setting. At 20 E. 14th with salons in Bronx. Brooklyn and Newark as well.
“Color light” with Yardley cosmetics
Reducing salons
Canute Water to restore gray hair to natural color at drug stores
Saks Corset shops