Pitch perfect: stoves

As the Pitch Perfect series continues, today we feature a 1949 collection of advertising slogans used to market stoves, heaters, and ranges.

Always save in the end (Keith Furnace Co.), Des Moines.
America’s favorite camp stove (American Gas Machine Co.).
America’s more popular camp stove (American Gas Machine Co.).
An above-the-floor furnace (parlor furnace), Allen Mfg. Co., Nashville.
Aristocrat of electric ranges, The (Benjamin Electric Co.), Chicago.

Beauty and warmth (National Radiator Co.), Johnstone, Pa.
Besler brings the steam to your job (Besler Corp.), Emeryville, Calif.
Biggest name in portable electric heaters, The (Arvin).
Brings a touch of the tropics (Flamingo gas heaters), Jackes-Evans Mfg. Co.
Built to save oil (Boss Oil Air Stove), Huenefeld Co., Cincinnati.

Change work to play three times a day (Standard Electric Stove Co.).
Chases chills from cold corners (Perfection Stove Co.).
Choice of over a million women, A (stoves), The Moore Corp., Joliet, Ill.
Clean, convenient, dependable and now economical electrical cooking (Everhot).
Come home to comfort (Bryant Heater Co.), Cleveland.
Comfortable heat when you want it, where you want it, at a price you can afford (Oilray Safety Heater, Inc.), Chicago.
Complete heating satisfaction (Orr & Sembower, Inc.), Reading, Pa.
Complete heating satisfaction (The Stubbs Co.), Cleveland.
Cooking is just a SNAP in an Estate electric range (Estate Stove Co.).
Cook stove and gas plant all in one (Coleman Lamp Co.), Wichita, Kan.
Cooks with the gas turned off (Chambers Corp.), Shelbyville, Ind.
Cozy comfort for chilly days (American Gas Machine Co.), Albert Lea, Minn.
Cradled silence (Doe Oil Burner), Oil-Elec-Tric Engineering Corp.

Delco heat Minute Man to protect your heating comfort for the duration.
Designed by women for women (Hotpoint ranges).
Dunham heating means better heating (Chicago).

Easiest and cheapest way to heat your home, The (Electrol, Inc.).
Electric range with the safety, The (Presteline).

First, from the very first (Ray Oil Burner Co.).
Fitted flame burners (Roberts & Mander Corp.).
Flame that will brighten your future (gas heaters).
Floating flame (Century Engineering Corp.), Cedar Rapids.
Foods taste better cooked with gas.
For better and faster baking (Pyrex ovenware).
For comfort and pleasure all through the house (heater), Arvin.
For increased fuel economy (Edge Moor Iron Co.), Edge Moor, Del.
Furnace freedom (Penn Electric Switch Co.).
Furnace heat for every home (Monitor Stove Co.).

Gas, the comfort fuel (Philadelphia Gas Works Co.).
Gas range with the lifetime burner guarantee, The (Magic Chef).
Gas range you want, The (Caloric).
Gas service for cooking, no matter where you live (Coleman Lamp Co.).
Gives you the most from heat (The Bristol Co.), Waterbury.
Glenwood Ranges make cooking easier (Glenwood Range Co.), Taunton, Mass.
Greatest recent advance in building and heating economy, The (Thermolath).
Guaranteed heating (U. S. Radiator Co.), Detroit.
Guardian of the nation’s health (water heater), A. O. Smith Corp.
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Pitch perfect: lamps

As the Pitch Perfect series continues, we today feature a 1949 collection of advertising slogans used to market lamps, lights, and bulbs.

After sunset, Lightoliers (Lightolier Co.), New York.
American dark chaser (lamps and lanterns), Am. Gas Machine Co., Albert Lea, Minn.
America’s most beautiful lamps (Art Lamp Mfg. Co.), Chicago.

Bores a 300-foot hole in the night (Niagara Searchlight Co.).
Brayco Light makes all things clear (Bray Screen Products).
Brightens the night (Fullerton Electric Co.).
Bright-Lite has a brilliant future (Britelite Co.).
Built for a palace, priced for a cottage (Lighting equipment), Moe-Bridges Co.
Burns like city gas, not a liquid fuel (Pyrofax), Carbide and Carbon Chemicals.
Buy a How searchlight today, you may need it tonight (How Lamp & Mfg. Co.).
Buy one today, you’ll need it tonight (French Battery & Carbon Co.).
Buy spares, they stay fresh (Ray-O-Vac), Flashlight batteries.

Chases darkness (AM Gas Machine Co.), Albert Lea, Minn.
Combination pilot light and switch, The (Sho-Lite, Inc.), Boston.

Daylight’s only rival (Silverglo Lamps, Inc.), Baltimore.
Decorate with artistic lighting equipment (Artistic Lighting Equip. Assn.).
Divides the road in half (headlights), Saf-De-Lite Sales Corp., Philadelphia.
Don’t grope in the dark (Daylo), American Ever Ready works.
Double duty searchlight, The (F. W. Wakefield Brass Co.).

Experts know these lamps (Hygrade Sylvania Corp.), Salem, Mass.
Eye-ease at the snap of the switch (Silverglo Lamps, Inc.), Baltimore.
Eyes of the night (Ilco headlight), Indiana Lamp Corp.

For safety after dark (Arrow Safety Device Co.), Mount Holly, N. J.
Full package of light, A (Hygrade Sylvania Corp.), Salem, Mass.

Give long-lasting light, bullet-fast (Winchester flashlight).
Gives more bright light longer (Bright Star flashlight).
Glass arm conveys the light, A (Sho-Lite), Am. Chain Co., New York.
Guaranteed by the name (Westinghouse).
Guardian of highway safety (Robox), Emergency auto control Mid-Switch Corp.

Handiest light in the world, The (Bussman Mfg. Co.), St. Louis.
Handy light on a reel, The (Appleton Electric Co.), Chicago.
Headlight that floodlights the road, The (Indiana Lamp Corp.), Connersville.
Holophane directs light scientifically (Holophane Glass Co.).
Howe products must make good or we will (automotive equipment), Howe Lamp Co.
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