The nation’s love affair with automobiles is generations old. Our devotion can be traced down through the decades by looking at advertising, as cars progressed from romantic if noisy new playthings to a near necessity in our vast country. The first known national ad promoting a car appeared at the end of July 1898 in the Scientific American magazine. It was for the now forgotten Winton Motor Carriage with the headline “dispense with a horse.” Americans did just that, and competing car companies increased spending on advertising. By 1906, 57 car companies spent over a half-million dollars advertising in 12 national magazines. Today, touting cars and trucks are a major part of the more than $111 billion spent last year at advertising’s 13,101 establishments. Profile America is in its 19th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Publius…..I was there yesterday….where were you? I waited as my car was taken to the store to fill up with gas before I headed towards my latest “stop”. Just wanted you to know that I “KNOW” you are not always honest!!! That’s a nice way of saying you are a LIAR!!!
Oh…..by the way….as I surfed the net tonight I see that your city/county has made WRAL’s website again. When will you see the writing on the wall and self admit that Henderson/Vance County “is what it is”…….if you can’t read the writing on the wall check the buildings/bridges that have all the graffiti written all over them. In case you can’t figure it out most of the writings have gang ties or have big a big “X” on it b/c a rival gang has decided it didn’t like the writings on their “walls”. Glad to be away from so close to the dump you call home.
Decept, get help. Worry about yourself, not Henderson.