1. The first day of winter sports try outs. Students will need a physical on the file in order to try out for swim, girls basketball & boys basketball & indoor track.
1. The varsity volleyball team will host Maggie Walker in a quarter final game in Region 2A East Volleyball Tournament at 7:00. Cost for the game is $6.00.
1. The varsity volleyball team will host Riverheads in a semi-final game of the Region 2A East Volleyball Tournament at 7:00. Cost for the game is $6.00.
1. Two members of the boys cross country team will participate in the VHSL 2A Cross Country Meet at Great Meadows, The Plains, VA at 11:15.
2. The varsity football team will host Buffalo Gap in a 2A East Playoff Football Game at 7:00. Cost for the game is $7.00.
1. The theater team travels to Nelson County High School for the Region 2A East Theater Competition at noon.
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“Gorgeous”. “Colourful”. “A real trip down memory lane”. These are just some of the comments from the 7000 people who have visited the Inspiring Beauty exhibition at Weston Gallery in Lakeside this year. As the quotes suggest, it is a gorgeous, glittering exhibition of advertising used by Boots to promote their No7 range of cosmetics, which celebrated its 80th anniversary last year, and has proved to be the most popular exhibition we’ve ever put on. Unfortunately, none of them will apply to this post looking at an earlier period of Boots’ history, focusing on the way the original pharmacy branch of the business was marketed. Marketing was still very basic and was a far cry from the sophisticated, large-scale industry that it is today.
Boots was founded in Goose Gate, Nottingham in 1849 as a chemists by John Boot. In 1877, shortly after son Jesse took over the family business, Jesse paid for the largest advertising space the Nottingham Daily Express offered, an entire full-length column. The advert (Boots the Chemist advert, Nottingham Daily Express, 12 March 1877. Ref: EMSC Periodicals:NOT) ran in several editions and consisted of an exhaustive, alphabetised list of 128 branded products. The list comprises numerous tinctures, tonics, pills and potions that claimed to do everything from ease teething, soothe troublesome coughs and invigorate various internal organs, but the emphasis was on the reduced prices rather than their effectiveness. Profits doubled within a month, proving that newspaper advertising was lucrative, even comparatively dull and lengthy ones by today’s standards.
All marketing emphasises the benefits of their products, but during World War I, companies stressed how and why their customers were also helping their country, and turned purchasing into an act of patriotism. Rather than emphasizing any one product, this first advert is a general promotion of Boots as an ‘all-British’ company and encouraged patriotic consumers to purchase Boots products to support home production.
And finally, this second advert was published throughout 1915 in the Nottinghamshire Guardian. It’s for Eau de Cologne, which is not a product normally be considered especially medicinal or of vital importance to the war effort. Even with the Armed Forces discount to tempt customers, Boots were keen to advertise their Eau de Cologne as a useful hygiene product. Under the product name and price list is this Important War Notice:
“Boots the Chemists will supply every Hospital and Nursing Home established to receive either British Soldiers or Sailors or Territorials with Boots Eau de Cologne at specially reduced rates…[it gives] an exquisite refreshing odour, grateful alike to Patient and Nurse, and, what is more important, a powerful antiseptic…Comparison of data revealed the astonishing truth that the essential oils contained in BOOTS EAU DE COLOGNE are equal in germicidal value to over four times the quantity of Pure Carbolic Acid….”
I’m not sure that the germicidal values of Eau de Cologne would have been the main selling point in peacetime, but it’s a lovely example of how advertising adapted for wartime. It would be another two decades before No7 was launched, and although Boots did have a small range of beauty products for women, there were no newspaper adverts for them in Nottingham’s local press. In comparison, there are plenty of adverts for beauty products from WW2, examples of which are in the exhibition.
Inspiring Beauty: 80 years of Making Up the Modern Woman runs until the 17th April in the Weston Gallery at Lakeside Arts. Admission is free. To book a ticket for our final lunchtime talk ‘Rejuvenate: Anti-aging in the twentieth century’ by Dr James Stark on 12 April 2016, please contact the Box Office on 0115 846 7777.
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Sorry guys! I haven’t updated in a while so I wrote a really sucky story after 4 hours of brainstorming. I don’t have a lot of time (funny, since it’s summer vacation) so this is just part one. Again, sorry for how badly written it is, enjoy.
I ducked behind a bush and attempted to catch my breath. Today had been an especially bloody day, and I do not enjoy being turned into a corpse.
I walked up behind her and waited for her to turn around. When she did, shock was clear on her face, though it quickly turned into pain. She yelped, seeing that I had stabbed my knife clear through her stomach. “So sorry, good night,” I muttered and stepped back as the ground swallowed the girl. It was the 17th day; the 17th day of torture; the 17th day of death. I scrounged the forest for food, no luck, so if I didn’t want to starve, I had to go into the Everglades. And I probably wasn’t going to make it out of that cursed place in one piece.
“You know about the Everglades! You know how many they killed! You aren’t special in any way, what makes you think you can do it?”
I shushed the second voice, my breaths rattled and I plunged into the Everglades. As I did so, I felt a surge of power; or recklessness.
That’s right! I thought to whoever created the Everglades, I just signed my own death contract, who’s a coward now?