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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you missed in History Class from house

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Speaker 1: stuff Works dot com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Holly Fry and I'm Tracy V. Wilson. And Tracy

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Speaker 1: have a question for you. Sure when you were a kid,

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Speaker 1: did you love the freebees that came in cereal? Well,

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Speaker 1: my mother had very strong opinions on which cereals were appropriate,

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Speaker 1: so many of the cereals that were sold with toys

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Speaker 1: and them were not also serials we were allowed to eat. Ah.

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Speaker 1: That makes me so sad. So in case some of

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Speaker 1: our listeners do not know, sometimes cereal, particularly serial aimed

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Speaker 1: at kids, will sometimes come with a toy or another

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Speaker 1: novelty item in the box as part of like a

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Speaker 1: marketing promotion to boost sales. And I live for that

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Speaker 1: stuff as a kid, and I might still live for

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Speaker 1: that stuff as an adult. Uh. My husband and I

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Speaker 1: like a lot of crazy things and toys, and like,

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Speaker 1: you put a Star Wars pen in a box and

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Speaker 1: we'll be eating that cereal for however long it takes

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Speaker 1: to get all the pens. But this is not a

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Speaker 1: new concept. Pretty early from about the middle of the

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Speaker 1: twentieth century onward, the serial Wars sort of really started

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Speaker 1: to heat up in different promotions were tried to outdo

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Speaker 1: one another, and at one point in the mid twentieth century,

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Speaker 1: one very famous company had a very wacky plan to

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Speaker 1: actually dole out land deeds as part of a serial promotion,

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Speaker 1: and that's what we're going to talk about today. Sergeant

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Speaker 1: Preston of the Yukon was a radio show from the

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Speaker 1: fifties and then it made this transition into television. It

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Speaker 1: started actor Dick Simmons as the sergeant, and the radio

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Speaker 1: version had featured voice actor Paul Sutton. There was also

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Speaker 1: a husky dog named Yukon King and a trusty horse

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Speaker 1: named Rex, and the show's exploits were usually about exciting adventures,

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Speaker 1: most commonly with the Sergeant of the Royal Canadian Mounted

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Speaker 1: Police taking his team of sleds through the Yukon in

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Speaker 1: pursuit of some bad guys. The TV series ran on

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Speaker 1: CBS TV from nineteen fifty five to nineteen fifty eight

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Speaker 1: and it was sponsored by Kuwaker Oats. So the actual

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Speaker 1: attribution of who had this idea for this extremely novel

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Speaker 1: promotion is a little bit fuzzy because different versions of

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Speaker 1: the story credit different people. In some versions. Ad executive

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Speaker 1: Bobby Smith came up with the idea. For example, his

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Speaker 1: biography credits him. Uh, sometimes it said that it's actually

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Speaker 1: Smith's son who gave him the idea, and then yet

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Speaker 1: other tellings of the tale it was a last minute

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Speaker 1: bolt of inspiration to addmin Bruce Baker, who was a

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Speaker 1: partner at ad firm Werry, Baker and Tilden, which is

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Speaker 1: where Bobby Smith works. So they're all kind of linked together.

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Speaker 1: But it's not. There's not entirely um one version of

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Speaker 1: the story that's consistently told. There's always a little bit

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Speaker 1: of wiggle in them. We do know that one of

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Speaker 1: these Chicago admin came up with the brainchild of offering

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Speaker 1: lay end deeds in cereal boxes. The previous ad campaign,

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Speaker 1: which they stated that the grains had been fired from guns,

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Speaker 1: was really no longer doing it for people. The idea

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Speaker 1: kind of based in the chemistry of how the the

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Speaker 1: puffed wheat and puffed rice came to be made in

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Speaker 1: their puff form. But uh, the other thing that Quaker

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Speaker 1: was really having to deal with was that other cereal

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Speaker 1: companies were cranking up their own ad campaigns, and they

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Speaker 1: were adding sugar to the cereal, which is something that

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Speaker 1: the Quaker company was not in favor of. And they

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Speaker 1: had these bounty cartoony mascots to try to appeal to kids. So,

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Speaker 1: for example, Tony the Tiger, which lives on today and

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Speaker 1: we all recognize, had debuted in the early nineteen fifties

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Speaker 1: and Kellogg's frosted flakes had become increasingly popular with kid consumers.

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Speaker 1: That part is really funny to me because if you've

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Speaker 1: heard our episode about John Harvey Long, you know he

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Speaker 1: was also not in favor of the sugar in the cereals. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he lost control of that one. They have this in

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Speaker 1: common with my mom and a piece written for Canadian

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Speaker 1: magazine in the nineteen seventies by Jack McIvor. Baker is

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Speaker 1: the hero of this piece, racking his brain in a

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Speaker 1: I feel compelled to mention that I could not put

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Speaker 1: my hands on an official full text copy of this article. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's reprinted sometimes an edited form by multiple tourism groups

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Speaker 1: in Canada, and I did find a citation for it,

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Speaker 1: so we know it existed, UH, but I never actually

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Speaker 1: So just know that going forward. I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: why Baker was interviewed for the piece, and he said

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Speaker 1: And the Quaker company had some trepidation about this whole

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Speaker 1: wacky scheme. They envisioned the whole campaign becoming this nightmare

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Speaker 1: of paperwork and expense as they tried to parcel out

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Speaker 1: sort of the legal issues surrounding all of that. They

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Speaker 1: so to complete with all the sugar and all the

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Speaker 1: cartoon characters. Bruce Baker and one of Quakers executives flew

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Speaker 1: idea of giving away land. Uh. And so once Baker

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Speaker 1: whose name was George Van Rogen, who incidentally went on

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Speaker 1: was not actually going to be necessary to register each

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Speaker 1: this promotion. That they could just sell it in one

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Speaker 1: didn't even have to bother with all of that. Ben

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Speaker 1: Rogen was delighted to be working on a novel project

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Speaker 1: instead of just drawing up people's wills and whatnot, So

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Speaker 1: and it was nineteen point one one acres UH. It

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Speaker 1: So once the land had been acquired, deeds were printed

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Speaker 1: And the wording on these deeds was really carefully written

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Speaker 1: serial industry at this point had become really rather cutthroat,

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Speaker 1: land for gold. The owners of these tiny parcels also

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Speaker 1: So basically it made it so that the deed holders

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Speaker 1: this promotion began, and they ran ads, of course on

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Speaker 1: the television show, but papers across the United States also

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Speaker 1: actual Yukon land, and these tiny land grabbers could fill

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Speaker 1: There was a whole lot of romance around the marketing

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Speaker 1: And there was also a map of the Yukon territory

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Speaker 1: And it is no surprise that this campaign worked Like

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Speaker 1: slowly amassing through these minuscule, little one inch deeds. And

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Speaker 1: the first month of the campaign, Quaker received tens of

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Speaker 1: thousands of box top requests. But then there was a

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Speaker 1: snag In February nineteen fifty five, just weeks after the

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Speaker 1: campaign had kicked off, the Ohio Securities division, Quaker had

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Speaker 1: a large operations center in Ohio, ruled that the company

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Speaker 1: could not legally trade a box top for a deed

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Speaker 1: to Yukon Land without a state license to sell fore

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Speaker 1: and so Quaker did not want to shut this down.

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Speaker 1: So instead of halting the promotion and distribution so that

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Speaker 1: company kind of managed a little loophole. They opted instead

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Speaker 1: to give away the deeds in the boxes. And because

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Speaker 1: and he says, greetings ladies. Finally an episode drives something

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Speaker 1: It's strange to hear my name spoken so often, not

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Speaker 1: of other architectural innovations and works that would make him

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