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# College Inn Tomato Juice Cocktail Advertisement This is a **straightforward product advertisement**, not political satire. The page promotes College Inn brand tomato juice cocktail from Chicago, marketed as a health beverage containing "precious vitamins" from tomatoes with lemon and spices. The ad emphasizes health benefits—suitable for adults and children, aids weight management ("keeping figures slim"), and serves as a "body-conditioner." It notes the drink is "nutritious but non-fattening," reflecting early-20th-century wellness marketing that emphasized vitamins and health tonics. The advertisement lists other College Inn food products (soups, prepared meats) and includes a prominent bottle illustration with the company's branding. This represents typical vintage advertising rhetoric connecting commercial products to personal health and wellbeing.
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COLLEGE INN TOMATO JUICE COCKTAIL Here's a drink that's the essence of sun- shine ... it contains those precious vitamins so essential to health ... it is squeezed from luscious red-ripe toma- toes and seasoned with spice anda dash cf lemon. Good to drink and good for your well-being, College Inn Tomato Juice Cocktail is food of the healthiest kind. Served in the morning, noontime and evening... it is a body-conditioner for grownups... it safeguards the health of children as well, Nor is this all. College Inn Tomato Juice Cocktail is nutritious but non-fat- tening. Smart women find it an invalu- able aid for keeping figures slim. All good food shops sell College Inn Tomato Juice Cocktail ... fountains serve it. It's an excellent health-plan to keep a chilled shaker-full always handy. Made only by The College Inn Food Products Company, Chicago, Ill. You will enjoy any of these delicious College Inn Foods: Chicken a la King — Lobster a la Newburg—Cream of To- mato Soup— Welsh Rarebit —Chop Suey —Boned Chicken —Chicken Broth with Rice— Chili Con Carne—Clam Chowder comicbooks.com