The "Imposing Troldtinder" in Horgheim, Norway

Here's another quick post for tonight...

This is a 1925 stereographic card¹ of "The Imposing Troldtinder (witch pinnacles) From Horgheim, Norway."

Horgheim is a family farm in central Norway, not far from the Norwegian Sea (Norskehavet).

As for the witch pinnacles, I believe I found a passage in the 1907 book "Norway Through the Stereoscope: Notes on a Journey Through the Land of the Vikings" that refers to them:

"There are Witch Peaks innumerable in various places in Norway — the name is a favorite one for application to almost any ragged height that has any suggestion of the sinister about it — but these are the Witch Peaks, everywhere acknowledged as having the best title to the name. That long, jagged wall of archaic rock is actually higher than the Romsdalshorn. People say that, after sundown, when those pinnacles stand out against the strange, pale glow of the western evening sky, or, above all, in winter, when their uncanny silhouettes have for a background the weird red flicker and gleam of the aurora borealis, there is something positively unearthly in their threatening beauty.

"The post-boys tell one a fantastic tale about how a wedding procession was going down this road one day, long ago — the fiddler, the priest, the bride and groom, and all the guests — when, for some reason, they were all turned to giant shapes of stone. If you are skeptical, they help your imagination by pointing out the resemblance of specific peaks to the different members of the Brudefolge (bridal train)."

This excerpt from "Teutonic Mythology (Volume 2)," originally published by Jacob Grimm² in the 1880s and translated here by James Steven Stallybrass, nicely complements the above passage:

"Close to the Romsdalshorn in Norway is a mountain called Troldtinder, whose jutting crags are due to giants whom Olaf converted into stones, because they tried to prevent his preaching Christianity in Romsdal. ...

"Grotesque humanlike shapes assumed by stalactite, flint and flakestone on the small scale, and by basalt and granite rocks on the great, have largely engendered and fed these fancies about petrified giants. Then the myth about stone-circles accounts for their form by dances of giants; many rocks have stories attached to them of wedding-folk and dancing guests being turned into stone."

Footnotes
1. This June 2011 Papergreat post featured a pair of stereographic cards of scenes from along the Rhine. It also delved into the legend of the Mouse Tower.
2. Yes, that is the Jacob Grimm of the Brothers Grimm.

Klein Chocolate Co. of Elizabethtown analyzes Fannie's butter fat

This little slip of paper, which has survived for 59 years, indicates that Mrs. Fannie S. Frey's milk had a butterfat percentage of 4.4 at one point in 1953. That milk would have been slightly richer and heavier than whole milk, which traditionally has a butterfat percentage of 3.25, according to this chart.

According to the Elizabethtown (Pa.) Historical Society, Klein Chocolate Company "was incorporated in 1914, a year after William and Frederick Klein¹ began manufacturing milk chocolate in Elizabethtown. Klein Chocolate Company became a major player in the candy business with national distribution for their products. By 1922 the company employed 200 people and produced 250,000 chocolate bars a day. To produce that chocolate the plant required six million quarts of milk a year, which gave area dairy farmers a steady market."

It's likely that Fannie S. Frey was one of those dairy farmers providing milk for Klein Chocolate. A woman by that name lived 90 years -- from 1886 to 1977 -- and is buried in Elizabethtown.

Fannie had a daughter, Dorothy Frances Frey, who lived to be 100 before dying last October at Rheems² Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Lancaster County. Here's an excerpt from Dorothy's obituary:

"Dorothy was born March 20, 1911 near Elizabethtown, Pa., the oldest of thirteen children. She was the daughter of the late Elias T. and Fannie ­(Daveler) Frey. About 1916, Dorothy and her family moved to their family farm on Rutts Road, Elizabethtown.

"Dorothy attended one-room Rutts School, walking a mile each way. She helped take care of her younger brothers and sisters and worked on the farm."

So Fannie had 13 children! And one of them, Claude, accidentally caused a tragic fire on the Frey farm in 1961. Here's a short article from the March 12, 1961, issue of the Reading Eagle:

Farm Buildings Are Destroyed
Elizabethtown, March 11 (AP) -- A fire which was believed to have started from an overheated fodder shredding machine destroyed a complex of farm buildings and killed some livestock near here today.

Five men were slightly burned and another suffered smoke inhalation while rescuing some livestock at he farm of Mrs. Fannie Frey, of Elizabethtown R.D. 1.

Her son, Claude, said he had been operating a shredding machine and apparently a bearing overheated, setting fire to the fodder. It spread to a barn, chicken hut and other structures. Damage was estimated at $25,000. Several farm machines were damaged.

Five pigs and 280 chickens were lost in the fire.

Meanwhile, Klein Chocolate Co. was sold to Mars -- maker of M&M's, Milky Way and Snickers -- around 1970.

Footnotes
1. Here's an interesting tidbit on the relationship between Klein Chocolate Company and The Hershey Company from Michael D'Antonio's 2006 book "Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams":

"[Milton S. Hershey] was even able to get along with the Klein Chocolate Company, which was founded by a defector from the Hershey ranks. William Klein and his siblings made competing items at a factory in nearby Elizabethtown, which was served by the Hershey trolley. But Klein, who once served Hershey as an industrial spy, always got along well with his old boss. He even sold Hershey his excess cocoa butter."

2. Rheems has been mentioned in these two previous Papergreat posts:

• Crown Coal, J.W. Wolgemuth and Wenger Feeds
• Old receipt for Landis Stone Meal Company in Lancaster County

And here are some other Papergreat posts about Lancaster County:

• Seven sons from Lancaster County family served during World War II
• Card from Wayside Gospel Crusaders in Lancaster
• "Fishin' Buddies" promotional cardboard fan from WGAL-TV
• Readers discuss postcard of old Lancaster asylum

You never know what you'll find in the "FREE" boxes

Saturday, Joan, Ashar and I attended a homeschooling association curriculum fair here in York County. The immense basement gymnasium at Grace Fellowship was split between professional vendors hawking their top-of-the-line homeschooling materials and local folks selling their used books and educational materials for modest prices.

We spent a good deal of time with the vendors of used materials. Joan got some terrific deals that helped kick off a neat timeline project for Ashar.

One woman and her daughter had a long table full of used books. For $1.50, I picked up the following:

• Three paperbacks from The Three Investigators series¹, which was my favorite mystery/adventure series during middle school.
• The Dover Thrift Editions paperback of "Great Ghost Stories," which features tales by Amelia Edwards, Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker and M. R. James, among others.
• An well-worn and well-loved 1966 ex-library hardcover of "Round the World Fairy Tales." The book features 36 tales -- from Japan, India, Russia, Norway, Africa, Australia, the Native Americans and more -- retold by Amabel Williams-Ellis.² Baba Yaga, Puss in Boots, Anansi, and Odysseus can all be found within the book's pages. William Stobbs³ is the book's illustrator.

But what's even better than cheap stuff? Free stuff!

Many of the vendors of used materials had a cardboard box under their table labeled "FREE." Treasure chests for ephemera fans! When stuff gets to the point where it's too old, too decrepit or too "uninteresting" for someone to sell, then it's perfectly aged for Papergreat.

I found some nifty free stuff for Ashar, including a sheet of international stickers, a small book about the White House and a National Geographic map of Mount Everest. I also found some Supreme Court justice biography cards of Earl Warren, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Sandra Day O'Connor that were produced by Grolier in the mid-1990s.

Also in a "FREE" box was "Skit Hits," a staplebound paperback published in 1952 by Helen and Larry Eisenberg of Nashville, Tennessee. The 64-page book, which features illustrations by Blanche Sloan, is filled with ideas and scripts for skits (also called stunts). Here's an excerpt from the introduction:

"In stunts we depart from Shakespeare a little. ... Stunts give youth and adults a chance for the imagination and sense of fantasy that they may have lost or discarded as being 'childish.' A truly good stunt if not childish, but childful, undertaken in the spirit of play, which is child-like. Stunts can give a wonderful opportunity for people to show creativity and ingenuity. They can show how clever and cute they are! ... The ugly duckling or the shy person becomes a princess or a Great Detective."

It's a really neat old book and a fascinating snapshot of what people did for entertainment 60 years ago.

And now, on to the coolest thing I found in one of the "FREE" boxes. (Warning: You might not agree with me on this.)

Inside one of the giveaway boxes was a long, skinny envelope with these words written at the top:

Dental X-Rays!

As promised, the envelope was was filled with dozens of tiny X-rays (1⅝ inches wide by 1⅛ inches tall) of people's teeth.

Here's a sampling:

Pretty cool, huh? So, if you ever find yourself in need of some dental X-rays, you know who you can get in touch with!

Footnotes
1. The Three Investigators are Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw and Bob Andrews. In Germany -- where they are almost as popular as David Hasselhoff -- their names are Justus Jonas, Peter Shaw and Bob Andrews. The series, in fact, is so popular in Germany that it has spawned its own original novels and a series of at least 140 radio dramas.
2. Amabel Williams-Ellis' husband was Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, a Welsh architect who was best known for creating the tourist village of Portmeirion in North Wales. Portmeirion was used to film the exteriors for "The Prisoner" in the late 1960s.
3. William Stobbs illustrated at least three Ruth Manning-Sanders books -- "A Bundle of Ballads," "Gianni and the Ogre" and "Scottish Folk Tales."

Postcards: Lakes in Wisconsin and Vermont, and a river in England

There will be no foolishness or pranks¹ today on the blog. Instead, here is a trio of old postcards in which the common theme is that they contain dihydrogen monoxide.

Grindstone Lake in Hayward, Wisconsin

The scratched-in caption at the bottom of this black-and-white postcard has this information:

• BEAUTIFUL GRINDSTONE LAKE
• HAYWARD, WIS.
• J 952

The postcard was produced by The L.L. Cook Co. of Milwaukee. According to this University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee website: "From the late 19th century to the 1960s, there were numerous postcard publishers active in Milwaukee. The two largest, the L. L. Cook Co. and the E. C. Kropp Co., produced thousands of cards on every imaginable subject. Most cards have images of parks, buildings, street scenes, churches, hotels and restaurants, making them invaluable as a resource on historic Milwaukee."

Grindstone Lake² is a 3,100-acre freshwater lake located in northwestern Wisconsin. Various portions of its approximately 10 miles of shoreline include Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation; an unincorporated community called Northwoods Beach; seasonal cabins; public boat landings; and a commercial cranberry bog.³

The largest city near Grindstone Lake -- and the one noted on this postcard -- is Hayward, Wisconsin. Hayward is, famously, home to the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame, which includes a 143-foot fiberglass muskie.⁴

This is the only one of today's three postcards that was used. In August 1952, someone mailed it -- using two one-cent stamps -- from Hayward to my great-grandmother, Greta, in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Here's an excerpt from the message on the back of the card:

Aug. 6, 1952
Dear Greta,
This is the most beautiful spot and Bonnie has the ideal summer home. I am enjoying everything so much.

Church of the Holy Trinity upon the River Avon

Up next is another "Chic" Series postcard that features artwork by Elmer Keene, whose work was previously featured in this Papergreat post about Canterbury Cathedral.

This moonlit landscape by Keene is looking across the River Avon at Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.⁵

Church of the Holy Trinity, portions of which date to 1210, has the official title of The Collegiate Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, but is more commonly known as Shakespeare's Church.

The church, a major tourist attraction, is the location of William Shakespeare's baptism (in 1564) and burial (in 1616). Shakespeare's funerary monument is located within the church.

Shakespeare is buried next to his wife, Anne Hathaway.

Lake Fairlee in Ely, Vermont

Finally, here's an undated postcard with the caption "Idlepine, Lake Fairlee, Ely, Vermont."⁶

Ely is a village within the tiny town of Fairlee, Vermont. Lake Fairlee is west of the village and southwest of the slightly larger Lake Morey, which is named after inventor Samuel Morey.

There is a blog for the Lake Fairlee Association. A primary focus of the blog is the battle against the non-native Eurasian Milfoil that is endangering the lake.

The blog also contains some neat history of The Betty-Anne Inn and Camp Passumpsic for Boys along Lake Fairlee.

But what was Idlepine? (And was it one word or two?)

Some clues:

• According to this website, which hasn't been updated in six or seven years, Idle Pine Camp offered rental cabins and communal dining on the shore of Lake Fairlee from the 1940s through 1960s. The website documents the transformation of the location into a family's vacation property.
• A 1956 volume of The Atlantic Monthly references "the menu of our Sunday dinner at Idlepine ... on the veranda overlooking Lake Fairlee."
• The 1959 book "Adventures in Good Eating" by the Duncan Hines Institute has the following listing: "Idlepine Lodge. Lake Fairlee. June 25 to Aug. 25, 8 A.M. to 6:30 P.M. Spec.: Good home cooking, fresh thick country cream, good sweet corn and vegetables, fresh fruits served all season. Don't forget the fried chicken. B., $1.50; L., $2.50; D., $3.00. Tel. FE 3-6041."
• Finally, this Stimson Family Reunion website contains neat old group photos that were taken at Idlepine Lodge in July 1929 and July 1931. So clearly the lodge dates to at least the 1920s.

Anyone have any Idlepine memories or information to share?

Footnotes

1. Here's a nice article with a rundown this year's lineup of April 1 Google gags and hoaxes, which includes Google 8-Bit Maps for NES and a self-driving NASCAR car. Back in 2009, I was fooled temporarily by one of Google's annual pranks -- the announcement about CADIE (Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity).
2. According to the online Dictionary of Wisconsin History, the origin of the lake's name is the English translation of the Chippewa word, Ga-jigwanabikokag, meaning "a grindstone." (Wikipedia, meanwhile, spells the Chippewa word this way: Gaa-zhiigwanaabikokaag)
3. Also, the Grindstone Lake Association has its own blog.

4. According to Wikipedia: "One can climb up into the mouth of the fish, and look over the town, as well as Lake Hayward. During the Christmas season, Santa Claus can often be found peering over the town from the musky's mouth."
5. The tiny caption in the lower-right corner of this postcard states: "The Church, Stratford-on-Avon."
6. The postcard was produced by the Portland Lithograph Co., 252 Spring St., in Portland, Maine.

Quaker Oats takes you "Around the World with Hob"

This neat and occasionally disconcerting little book was a Christmas present from my wife. It's a 44-page staplebound volume that was published in 1929 by The Quaker Oats Company.

"Around the World with Hob" was written by Grace T. Hallock and illustrated by Electra Papadopoulos.¹ While it was an unabashed advertising booklet, it had the legitimacy of being distributed throughout schools.

The copyright page states:

• Around the World with Hob, prepared for school use, is designed for the primary grades. Accompanying the verses are drawings for the children to color with crayons.
• This publication may be secured free of cost in quantity by writing to The Quaker Oats Company, School Health Service, 80 East Jackson Street, Chicago, Illinois.

The main character is, of course, Hob. We learn that he is a "little man"² who lives in the mill below the hill. It's not clear whether he's a squatter at the mill or has received authorization to live there.

Hob's partner is Bob Robin, who is a robin. Bob Robin serves as Hob's transportation.

Bob, with Hob aboard, flies all around the world. Take a closer look at the two of them in this image, which is a magnification of a portion of the book's cover:

And what do they do as they fly all over the world? Well, here's where it gets a little disconcerting and perhaps even creepy. Hob and Bob are voyeurs.

As the book itself states:

Through windows open wide
They peep
When all the children
Are asleep.

Through doorways open wide
They steal
To watch the children
Eat oatmeal.
This is wrong, right? We can't be advocating this kind of behavior.

Not even by a "little man."

Not even if the doors and windows are already open.

Peeping pixies are uniformly unacceptable!

After all of his peeping, Hob sits down and documents the rampant oatmeal-eating that he has seen all over the world, which makes up the bulk of the book. His international subjects include:

• Jill of America
• Andy of Scotland
• Lucy of England
• O'Neill of Ireland
• Gretchen of Holland
• Otto of Germany³
• Oscar of Sweden
• Yuki of Japan
• Mary of Australia
• Rita of Argentina
• Bingo of the West Indies
• Pedro of Mexico

And we learn about all the ways these children like to eat oatmeal. Some examples: Andy likes it piping hot and in oatmeal cakes; O'Neill and Otto also like it hot; Yuki eats it off a plate, with chopsticks⁴; Mary eats it with a piece of bread; Rita likes it hot, but makes her donkey settle for cold and raw oats and straw; Bingo, who had no shirt and must sit on a log to eat, shares his porridge with his dog, Jingo⁵; and Pedro enjoys oatmeal as a "treat."

And so we can thank Hob the Voyeuristic Little Man for all these oatmeal observations from around the globe!

Finally, the back cover of "Around the World with Hob" presents one final wonderful illustration by Papadopoulos...

It reminds me a bit of the cover of "Georgina Finds Herself," which I featured back in January.

Footnotes
1. No, I didn't make up the name "Electra Papadopoulos." And, yes, it will go down as one of the greatest names ever mentioned on Papergreat.
2. It is not specified what kind of "little man" Hob is. He could be a brownie, tomte, kobold, di sma, gnome, Nimerigar, pixie or trow. Quaker Oats and Grace T. Hallock just don't give us enough information to go on.
3. Otto is described as follows: "Otto's hair is straight and yellow, Otto's trousers short and green. Black and tight is Otto's jacket, And his blouse is white and clean." I have nothing further I wish to say here.
4. I'm just telling you what the book says.
5. I'm just telling you what the book says. This was 83 years ago.

1959 UPI photo of Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower

The large photo (9 inches by 7⅛ inches) was a news photo originally distributed by United Press International. The second image is the caption, which was on a separate sheet of paper and was glued to the photo. The caption states:

WAP-070114..................WASHINGTON BUREAU
43RD WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
WASHINGTON: PRESIDENT AND MRS. EISENHOWER POSE FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS AT THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY ON THEIR 43RD WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. IN ANSWER TO A REPORTERS INQUIRY EARLIER IN THE DAY, THE PRESIDENT SAID, SPEAKING OF HIS MARRIAGE, A SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE GETS HAPPIER AS THE YEARS GO BY.

The photograph was taken on July 1, 1959. Dwight David Eisenhower and Mamie Geneva Doud were married on July 1, 1916,¹ in Denver, Colorado. He was 25 at the time and she was 19. (Their son, John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower , is 89 years old and is the oldest living presidential child as of this writing.)

On the back of the photo is a red "PLEASE CREDIT" stamp from United Press International. The text states, in part: "This picture is for you publication only and must not be loaned, syndicated or used for advertising purposes without written permission from United Press International. By accepting this picture you agree to hold United Press International harmless from any loss or damage arising by reason of your use or publication of this picture."

United Press International is described by Wikipedia as a "once-major international news agency," which accurately sums it up. For almost a century, UPI was a major player in the news business, competing along the Associated Press, Reuters and a handful of other outlets to provide national and international news content to newspapers, radio stations and television stations.

UPI is now a much smaller operation. After some rough times in the 1980s and 1990s, it was purchased in 2000 by the News World Communications.²

Meanwhile, the way that newspapers receive photos from wire services has evolved greatly over the decades. In the early 1990s, when I was working at The Gettysburg Times, photos were transmitted to newsrooms and printed out on AP Leafdesk machines. Here's what one of those photos looked like in September 1993:

Footnotes
1. Also on July 1, 1916, the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the New York Giants, 9-2. The 1916 Phillies featured players named Dode, Gavvy, Possum, Eppa, Erskine, Chief and Bud. Bud's last name was Weiser. That's right, the 1916 Phillies had Bud Weiser. Mr. Weiser was born and died in Shamokin, Pennsylvania.
2. News World Communications was founded in 1976 by Sun Myung Moon, who is 92 years old and was born two years before John Eisenhower.

Brochure for "Sightseeing Pleasure Tours of Portland Maine"

Here's a green, tri-fold brochure titled "Sightseeing Pleasure Tours of Portland Maine and the Islands of Casco Bay." There's no date of publication listed anywhere on the brochure and only a few solid context clues; I'd guess it was published sometime between 1946 and 1950.

The tours were operated by The Falmouth Transportation Company in Portland, Maine. With exclamation points aplenty, the brochure is clearly pitching its tours to visitors to New England, not local residents:

"With a bow to Mother Nature, we've planned these trips for your pleasure. Rolling surf! Rugged coast line! Tree-studded islands in beautiful placid bay! Historical interests! Happy remembrances!"

Four tours are described, and the prices range from $1 to $5, plus tax. Here are some highlights from the offerings:

TOUR NUMBER ONE
(Combination Bus and Boat Tour)

• Western Promenade, which offers views of the White Mountains in New Hampshire
• Western Cemetery
• Eastern Promenade
• Tukey's Bridge
• "through the heavily wooded Falmouth Foresides"
• "board the new and Smooth-Sailing Diesel Powered passenger boat, Nellie G III"¹
• through the inner Casco Bay
• Islands to be seen include Cousins, Littlejohn, Sturdivant, Clapboard, Basket and the destination of Chebeague Island

TOUR NUMBER TWO
(Cape Shore & Lighthouse Drive, via the Beaches)

• "graceful curving Cape Shore Drive bordering the outer harbor"
• the extreme tip of Cape Elizabeth
• United States Military Reservation, Fort Williams²

• Portland Headlight (pictured at right)
• "sometimes a whale or two"
• Crescent Beach, with a short stop at Kettle Cove
• Higgins Beach
• Prout's Neck [sic]
• Stroudwater
• Deering Oaks

TOUR NUMBER THREE
(Complete Tour of the Forest City)

• Fort Allen Park
• Western Promenade
• Western Cemetery
• City of Deering
• Birthplace of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow³
• Williston Congregational Church
• St. Luke's Cathedral
• Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
• Maine General Hospital
• Mercy Hospital
• Baxter Boulevard
• Portland Observatory
• Sweat Memorial Art Museum
• "For the ladies the largest shopping center north of Boston"

TOUR NUMBER FOUR
(Famous Poland Spring and Bay of Naples)

This final tour -- which lasts all day and costs $5 (plus 75 cents tax) -- is described in the brochure in tantalizing fashion: "We will take you over 78 miles of the most scenic routes, off main roads and along rustic trails that border picturesque brooks and birch-lined lakes."

There's a stop in a Shaker village at Sabbathday Lake. But the primary destination is Poland Spring, "a gorgeous setting of more than 5000 acres of natural playground."

Pictured above is the Poland Spring House, which was a highlight of this tour. The historic hotel and spa opened in 1876, closed in 1965 and burned to the ground on July 3, 1975. An excellent website by Brian Harris offers a detailed history of Poland Spring and the Poland Spring House. There's lots of great reading there.

And, for even more on Poland Spring, there's an Images of America volume offered by Arcadia Publishing.

So, who's ready to head to Maine this summer?

Footnotes
1. Multiple websites confirm that the Nellie G III was constructed and launched in 1946. So, if it's being described as "new" in this brochure, I'm guessing the brochure was published sometime in the range of 1946 to 1950.
2. This is another minor context clue. Fort Williams was decommissioned in 1964 and turned into Fort Williams Park.
3. Here's another Longfellow-related Papergreat post: Saturday's postcards: Longfellow's Wayside Inn in Massachusetts

Campbell's soup magazine advertisement, circa 1932

Even that old standby, Campbell Soup Company, has changed over the decades.

Sure, the comfort food of chicken-noodle soup and tomato soup (both of which sound great on this chilly, rainy weekend) have been mainstays.

But Campbell's other offerings have changed with the times.

Witness this circa 1932 full-page magazine advertisement for Campbell's. Here are the offerings that were available -- all for just 11 cents a can!

• Asparagus
• Bean
• Beef
• Bouillon
• Celery
• Chicken
• Chicken-Gumbo
• Clam Chowder
• Consommé (still available as Beef Consommé)
• Julienne (some history of this soup, which is no longer en vogue)
• Mock Turtle¹
• Mulligatawny
• Mutton
• Ox Tail²
• Pea
• Pepper Pot
• Printanier³
• Tomato
• Tomato-Okra
• Vegetable
• Vegetable-Beef
• Vermicelli-Tomato

Looking over Campbell's current soup offerings, the most offbeat product I found⁴ was Harvest Orange Tomato Soup. Will that stand the test of time? Or will it fade into obscurity with Julienne, Mock Turtle and Mutton?

Footnotes

1. Per Wikipedia, "mock turtle soup is an English soup that was created in the mid-18th century as a cheaper imitation of green turtle soup. It often uses brains and organ meats such as calf's head or a calf's foot to duplicate the texture and flavor of the original's turtle meat." It's not hard to see why the soup's popularity faded. However, if you want some, here's where you can order the Cincinnati-based Worthmore's Mock Turtle Soup.
2. Here's an amusing blog entry about Campbell's Condensed Oxtail Soup and its use in one British family's recipe for Spaghetti Bolognese di Campeggio.
3. The website "Old and Sold" has an interesting Q&A about soups that was originally published in 1926. Printanier soup is described as: "A vegetable soup, especially popular during the spring months. Contains carrots, string beans, turnips, and some fresh peas and lima beans. ('Printanier' is the French word for 'spring.')"

4. Of course -- and I don't need to tell any mothers this -- Campbell's also has a bunch of co-branded soups nowadays: Disney/Pixar Cars Soup, Disney/Pixar Toy Story Soup, Disney Princess Soup, Goldfish Pasta Soup, Nickelodeon Dora the Explorer Soup, and Nickelodeon Sponge Bob Squarepants Soup.