• Winter collection for the Pygmalion novelty department store in Paris
  • Pineral was created in 1864 by Hermenegildo Pini, an Italian immigrant in Argentina. The original formula contained 30 herbs, citrus peels, and caramel, with 36% alcohol.
  • Fish preserves produced under the Gargantua brand by the Compagnie Lorientaise de Chalutage à Vapeur in Lorient. This poster specifically concerns hake in brine. A variant of this poster deals with hake, monkfish, gurnard, and fish soup.
  • Belgian mineral water, still or sparkling, sourced in Spa, near Liège.
  • Everything suggests that this is a restaurant menu that does not deceive its customers by reminding them of La Fontaine's famous fable.
  • Gaufrette Altesse by Biscuits Pernot whose headquarters are in Dijon.
  • Huard Company (1863-1987) located in Châteaubriant in Loire-Atlantique manufactured agricultural equipment. In 1913, the company had about 140 employees at its Châteaubriant site and an annual production of 5,000 plows and 540 seed drills for animal traction. At that time, the company was the leading producer of plows on the French market.
  • War effort established in May 1915. Its mission is to collect toilet linen to provide it free of charge to soldiers resting from the trenches, so they can dry off after a shower.
    A chief physician of a regiment writes to the President of La Serviette du Soldat on February 12, 1916: "I have the honor to report that my regiment is in possession of the portable shower unit from the Committee of Showers for the Front, but we have no towels to allow our soldiers to dry themselves. I would therefore be very grateful if you would agree to send me a stock of towels."
  • Olive oil from the Rocca, Tassy & de Roux house in Marseille.
  • National Association for the Moral and Material Expansion of France.
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