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— ChatGPT in April 2024.
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Protein!
Kellogg's discovers a great new high-protein food in a delicious new ready-to-ear cereal form.
Kellogg's of Battle Creek.
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Kellogg's
"won its favor through its flavor".
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Always ready for Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes
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Licorice
Big Sticks in Little Bits.
In Little Sacks.
The Mellor & Rittenhouse Co.
218 N. 22d St., Philadelphia, Pa.
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Manufacturers of Pure Spanish
Also manufacturers of Ardenter Mutard for Table and Medical Use.
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Arlene Dahl
Robt. Burns Cigarillos.
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Why did you change to Camels, Linda Darnell?
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Toute la gamme
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A soldier and civilians
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Everybody needs soup!
Luncheon, dinner, supper.
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Camels
Costlier Tobaccos.
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Gott strafe England! 1914/15
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'Golden Shred'
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..du soleil dans un verre..
Cognac Monnet.
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J'ai Prié le bon Dieu de L'accorder, taujours
Le plus parfait banheur en chacun de tes jours.
Petit Jésus, protégez mon petit xxx.
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Papier a cigarettes
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Piles of rusty artillery shells, perhaps a "new" photo
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You get a lot to like with a
the filter cigarette with the unfiltered taste.
It takes might good makin's to give you unfiltered taste in a filter cigarette. That's the flavor you get in the famous Marlboro recipe from Richmond, Virginia. Plenty rich, plenty mild and through the pure white Selectrate filter.
Why don't you settle back and have a full-flavored smoke?
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"Austria" written in Russian
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Light up a Lucky... it's light-up time!
Luckies Taste Better -- Cleaner, Fresher, Smoother!
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Camel's real taste satisfies longer!
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Modiano
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