Products and Services Advertised in the Sunday Times

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