This advertisement is a great example of the now forgotten art of crafting ads for the learned Jew, where the ads were written in a tongue-in-cheek Biblical Hebrew style, made to leave a lasting impression on it's reader. The advertisement reads:
מחר יהיה האות הזה
הלילה קחו לכם בבית המרקחת בעד עשרה סנטים
קופסא אחת של של
עקס-לאקס
הרפואה היותר בדוקה לעצירות
מחר ותדעו מדוע חביב עקס-לאקס על כל הנברא בצלם בכל קצבי הארץ
I suspect that it is no coincidence, that Israel Matz, the founder and owner of Ex-lax, was a patron of many Jewish Institutions in New York, including the Yeshivat Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanan.
I can only imagine how the cook at the Yeshiva got offended after this advertisement was published.
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