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(9) Page 21 - What a thirst, and what a quencher
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| Blighty and Sea Pie > Blighty > Summer, 1918 > (9) Page 21 - What a thirst, and what a quencher |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74458433 |
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| Description | This advertisement for 'Freemans Glass Lemon', 'made in DELECTALAND' by The Watford MFG Co. Ltd, features a soldier raising a glass of 'this jolly good drink'. The caption reads: 'What a thirst & what a quencher'. Glass Lemon was a concentrated powder which could be added to water to produce a refreshing drink. A note has been added in this advertisement stating that 'ALL this season's supplies are reserved for the troops'. Many different products were requisitioned by the authorities for those fighting overseas, and restrictions were placed on the use of certain raw materials in the manufacturing process. In another advertisement in this edition of 'Blighty', the manufacturers of Cherry Blossom boot polish warned their customers of dwindling stocks due to such restrictions. |
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| Description | This special summer edition was a selection of some of the best poems, stories and sketches submitted. A note at the back of the magazine informed readers that many of those chosen for inclusion had been written 'in the trenches and dug-outs, whilst the Hun shells are screaming overhead'. |
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| Description | A humorous weekly magazine issued free to the troops in the First World War; contained short stories, poems, cartoons, paintings and drawings, with contributions from men on active service. Distributed by the War Office, the Admiralty and the Red Cross, and subsidised through donations and sales to the general public. |
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| Shelfmark | 6.84 |
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| Description | Editions of 'Blighty' (1917, 1918) and 'Sea Pie' (1917-1919), First World War magazines with pictures, stories, poems and humour. 'Blighty' was sent free to the men at the front and in the fleet. Profits from sales of 'Sea Pie' went to help sailors and their families. |
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