Schutzen
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Has anyone heard of an Iver Johnson Break Action .38 being given as promotion with the purchase of a 50-100 sack of flour during the 1920's - 1930's? I was told this was done, but I can find not references to it.
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The bank promotion was you took the gun in lieu of interest on a large CD for several years. I think it was longer than 20 years ago also.That'd likely be a flour mill company promotion vs an IJ promotion. I've heard of a Colorado, I think it was, bank giving Weatherby rifles away to new depositors about 20 years ago. So a flour mill doing something similar wouldn't be terribly odd.
I'm trying to imagine who would give you a new $10 gun for buying a 100# bag of flour for $5. Anything's possible I suppose, but I've never heard of a deal that good.
My grandparents were farmers and all born in the 1890s. My father was born in 1922, etc. They bought flour 100 pounds at a time a few times a year. Both grandmothers baked loaf bread a couple of times a week - plus daily spoon bread, batter bread, drop biscuits,etc. and cooked three meals a day - one of them on a big wood stove even though she had a new electric range. (Money just doesn't change some people. They had plenty of free stove wood from 1500 apple trees.)
John
edited to add:
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2014/ar...dex-and-the-american-inflation-experience.pdf
Prices of selected items, 1934:
• Potatoes, 1.7 cents/pound
• Flour, 5.1 cents/pound
• Rice, 8.1 cents/pound
• White bread, 8.3 cents/pound
• Round steak, 27.4 cents/pound
• Butter, 35.4 cents/pound
• Bituminous coal, $8.36/ton
There was this guy, William Tell was his name.........This is a bit off topic except as it relates to the changes in gun ads, gun handling, and gun safety in the last 75 years.
I recently acquired a reissued copy of Ed McGivern's Book of Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting wherein he provides detailed instructions on how to make a device that will allow attaching targets to a person's head so Ed can shoot them off. Also shows how one should hold a target in one's hand if it is to be shot by another. Pictures show a person swinging targets on a string while Ed shoots them.
Times change.