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Grocery Shopping List from a 1950s Housewife Reminder
A pantry style list enumerates bakery items such as Calumet Baking Powder Pillsbury Pancake Flour and White Wings Flour and a range of breads and crackers. Beverages include coffee brands Sanka Bright and Early and several soft drinks and teas. Dairy lists milks butters and cheeses with meats and fresh produce including apples potatoes and citrus. A dessert and canned goods section notes Knox gelatin My-T-Fine desserts and Heinz soups. Cleaning supplies cover detergents and disinfectants with a final instruction to clip the list.
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Barking
Calumet
Pillsbury
White Wings
Tucker's Sharten
Fair-Maid
Denny's
All Gold
Maxtrell House
Sanka
Horlick
Postum
Welch
Kellogg’s
Ally
Kellogg's
Gebhardt’s
Chill Pwdr
Eapetlat
Borden's Milk
Enochton’s
Washington State
Idaho
Gebhardt
Galmon Soars & Cleaners