Steph Posted December 27, 2008 Report Share Posted December 27, 2008 This is overkill, since we already know they were called Marble King marbles by 1940. But it's still cool! May 6, 1943 -- a big bag of Marble King marbles for free. And here is a 1938 ad for marbles with Rippled Wheat. Doesn't identify whose marbles but we have a good guess! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marblemansion Posted December 28, 2008 Report Share Posted December 28, 2008 Are you just finding these in the history archives of old newspapers? Printing the ads from the micrfilms? How did you find them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2008 Online archives. Some I stumbled upon. Some I had to get creative with keywords in order to find. Some were free. Some I paid to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marblemansion Posted December 28, 2008 Report Share Posted December 28, 2008 so - i wonder what one could find doing some research at the public library of old microfiche from local newspaper archives....I mean Centralia is right down the road from me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted December 28, 2008 Report Share Posted December 28, 2008 Good work - thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2008 Thanks Al. :-) Bill, on the one hand, it sure is nice to be able to plug in keywords and jump relatively quickly to any number of papers. On the other hand, I can't easily "browse" any of these papers online. You might find things which would slip through my best targetted searches. Stuff hidden in ads. Surprising marble-connected topics. Photographs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FeelingMarbleous Posted December 28, 2008 Report Share Posted December 28, 2008 Hey Steph, did you manage to come across the site that ask you to pay for old ads and old articles in magazines ? i used to use that site for Old radio tubes and radio's and i cant find the link anymore.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2008 Doesn't ring a bell. Couldn't say for sure. There were various pay-per-view sites I landed on and promptly forgot about before I finally decided I had to had to had to see something from a couple of them. I don't recall if any were particularly for ads or for magazines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 And here is a 1938 ad for marbles with Rippled Wheat. Doesn't identify whose marbles but we have a good guess! p.s. no need to guess anymore. 1938 ad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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