vintage recycling: ATTENTION SWEETHEARTS - Rust Craft Mail From Home Booklet

HAVE YOU A SWEETHEART IN TH E SERVICE?

This ad is from 1942, it promotes a

new booklet being offered, free of charge, by Rust Craft

"Mail From Home"

"Mail From Home" was geared toward assisting loved ones correspond with with servicemen.

"MAIL FROM HOME
~ His Most Treasured Possession"

"A compilation of Postal Information
and suggestions of Value to the
family and friends of
Men in the Service."

".....just off the press- ...filled with valuable information for every mother, every wife, every sweetheart,every friend, of a man in uniform. It's the right size to fit in your purse-yet it contains 16 pages covering all points on sending mail overseas."

"For example, it tells you how far in advance to mail Christmas Greetings, Birthday and Anniversary Remembrances, so that they will reach him in time for these occasions.
It gives postage rates, addressing instructions, charts for keeping track of mail...and many other suggestions of value..."

these newspaper ads below show

some local promotions for the

"Mail from Home" booklet

1942 Ad for H.W. Brown

"Authorized Headquarters for RUST CRAFT

'MAIL from HOME'

this H.W. Brown ad pictures the booklet and reminds senders "this is the Last Week to mail Christmas Cards and Gifts to Our Boys in the Service Overseas...." 1942