This episode of the Useless Information Retrocast includes the following:
Question of the Day: When was the last cigarette advertisement run on network television in the United States?
Retrosponsor: Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin
This commercial that was featured in this Retrocast is from the November 16, 1938, broadcast of Monticello Party Line.
Tidbits:
Baby Boy Born in Well (1935)
Man Saved by Flagpole (1950)
Boy Falls 1500 Feet and Survives (1952)
Footnotes to History:
Woman Uses Body as Incubator (1926)
Woman Files Complaint for Unpaid Alimony (1936)
Man Puts Finger in Jar With Wasp (1939)
Seven Siblings Receive Tonsillectomies in Three Hours (1949)