We’ve laughed about ads in early 20th century church magazines — the garment fashion shows, the pitches to bishops to buy their sacrament trays from us and not from them, the brand of olive oil that’s purer — and presumably more efficacious — for use in healing blessings. But it’s probably not hard to believe that I sometimes see ads I wish I could take advantage of, for goods and services, at the prices prevailing in some past year.

Some deals I covet …

(Ads are from 1930, 1916, and 1908)