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Spaghetti meals
EASY, ECONOMICAL, DELICIOUS

How spaghetti can help you serve more delicious, more nourishing meals
FOR LESS MONEY

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It takes real planning to feed a family both economically and well. But you’ll find Franco-American Spaghetti a big help in solving your problem. Few foods provide so much real nourishment and deliciousness—at such low cost. Serve it by itself as a main dish or in combination with other foods.

Franco-American Spaghetti furnishes plenty of protein for building muscles. It is especially rich in carbohydrates needed for energy. It combines with other foods to make a variety of satisfying, delicious meals. Add a salad or simple fruit dessert and you have a well-balanced menu—easy to digest, easy on the budget.

Spaghetti combines wonderfully with other foods. Combine it with left-over meat into appetizing casseroles. Use it to dress up cheaper cuts of meat. Serve it on a platter with lamb stew or meat balls. Your family will look forward to Friday dinners if you make a tasty casserole of spaghetti and salmon or other inexpensive fish. They’ll enjoy green peppers stuffed with savory spaghetti, too.

Attractive menu suggestions are given with each recipe in this leaflet. They give you meals which are inexpensive and easy to prepare. Look them over now and surprise your family with one tonight.

WHY YOU SHOULD
Insist on
Franco-American

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It makes a big difference which spaghetti you serve. Franco-American is different as can be from the ordinary ready-cooked kind.

Its tangy, tempting sauce is rich with the luscious goodness of fine ripe tomatoes and golden Cheddar cheese. It’s seasoned to savory perfection with costly spices—a skillful blend of eleven different ingredients. “Far better than I could ever make,” good home cooks tell us.

Yet you can enjoy this “millionaire’s dish” for less than three cents a portion! A can of Franco-American is usually no more than ten cents. You can’t buy uncooked spaghetti, with all your other ingredients, and prepare it yourself for so little.

Serve these savory spaghetti dishes twice a week or oftener. Keep a supply of Franco-American on hand. Order several cans from your grocer today. It’s a great time and money-saver in your kitchen.

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FRANCO-AMERICAN SPAGHETTI WITH THE Extra GOOD SAUCE

MADE BY THE MAKERS OF CAMPBELL’S SOUPS

Each recipe in this booklet serves four, with the exception of Chicken Royal, marked by an asterisk.*

SALMON-SPAGHETTI CASSEROLE

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti

1½ cups flaked salmon

1½ teaspoons minced onion

4 strips bacon

½ teaspoon salt

Place a layer of Franco-American Spaghetti in a shallow, greased casserole. Add some of the flaked salmon and the onion. Alternate layers of spaghetti, fish and onion till all are used. Arrange bacon strips cut in half over top. Bake in hot oven (425° F.) about 20 minutes, until casserole is well heated and bacon crisp. Serve with green peas, salad of shredded cabbage and seeded raisins with French dressing; plain spice cake with whipped cream for dessert.

MY HUSBAND HATED “ECONOMY DISHES” UNTIL I FOUND OUT ABOUT FRANCO-AMERICAN

SAVORY TIMBALES

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti

1 cup ground left-over meat (beef, corned beef, ham)

½ teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon paprika

1 tablespoon parsley, chopped fine

2 eggs, slightly beaten

Chop Franco-American Spaghetti and mix thoroughly with other ingredients. Fill buttered custard cups three-fourths full. Place layer of brown paper over bottom of shallow pan and fill with hot water. Put in custard cups and bake in moderate oven (350° F.) for 30 minutes. Serve on hot platter garnished with parsley. Delicious with buttered turnips and a green salad; cherry upside-down cake for dessert.

HEARTY SOUP DINNER
Makes a hit on frosty fall days

2 large onions

2¾ cups water

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti

¾ teaspoon salt

2 cans Campbell’s Beef Soup

Parmesan cheese

Slice onions and cook in boiling salted water for 10 minutes. Chop Franco-American Spaghetti a little and add with soup to onions. Bring to a boil and serve at once in soup plates with Parmesan cheese and crackers. Try large fruit salads or cup-cakes with chocolate sauce for dessert.

OYSTER CASSEROLE DE LUXE
Grand for Friday or any day

2 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons flour

¾ teaspoon salt

⅛ teaspoon pepper

1 tablespoon chopped parsley

½ cup milk (about)

1½ dozen oysters

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti

Buttered bread crumbs

Melt butter in saucepan and blend with flour and salt till smooth. Pour oyster liquor in cup and add milk to make ¾ cup. Add gradually to flour mixture, stirring constantly till smooth and slightly thick. Add parsley.

In a greased baking dish place a layer of spaghetti, dot with oysters and cover with white sauce. Repeat till all ingredients are used, ending with white sauce. Cover with buttered bread crumbs and bake in a moderately hot oven (375° F.) for 20 minutes, till heated through and browned on top. Serve with squash and spinach; fresh fruit tarts for dessert.

FRANCO-AMERICAN CERTAINLY HELPS WHEN YOU’RE ON A BUDGET

CHICKEN ROYAL*
Fit for a king!

2 cans Franco-American Spaghetti

1 cup stuffed olives, sliced

¾ teaspoon salt

⅛ teaspoon pepper

½ teaspoon paprika

2½ cups of chicken meat

2 tablespoons butter

Buttered bread crumbs

To spaghetti, add stuffed olives and seasonings. Arrange a layer of mixture in bottom of greased baking dish. Spread all the chicken over this and dot with butter. Cover with remaining spaghetti and sprinkle with buttered crumbs. Bake in moderately hot oven (375° F.) for 30 minutes or till crumbs are browned. Garnish with slices of hard-boiled egg, if desired, and sprinkle with paprika. Serve with cheese sticks and a green salad. Serves 6. Grand for Sunday night supper.

OH, DEAR, LATE AGAIN. THANK GOODNESS FOR FRANCO-AMERICAN

SPAGHETTI WITH FRIZZLED BEEF
A tempting, jiffy dinner on your “afternoon out”

¾ cup dried beef

2 tablespoons butter

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti

Pick dried beef into small pieces. If it is very salty, freshen 10 minutes in cold water and drain well. Melt butter in hot frying pan and frizzle beef till slightly browned. Add Franco-American Spaghetti and mix. Cook over low flame till heated through. Serve with buttered baby beets and cole slaw, with boiled custard over sliced peaches for dessert.

CRISPY MEAT PATTIES
An easy way to make tempting croquettes

½ cup bread crumbs

1 cup chopped, cooked vegetables (carrots, beets, peas)

1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

¾ teaspoon salt

1 cup ground left-over meat

1 egg, slightly beaten with 1½ tablespoons cold water

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti

Chop Franco-American Spaghetti fine and mix with vegetables, Worcestershire, salt and ground meat. Shape into cakes, dip in bread crumbs, then in beaten egg and again in crumbs. Chill 20 minutes in refrigerator. Sauté in hot fat (375° F.) 1 inch deep in a heavy frying pan until brown on each side. Drain on absorbent paper. Serve with cucumber salad; strawberries or sliced pineapple for dessert.

THRIFTY MEAT SCALLOP
Delicious made with left-over ham, corned beef, pot-roast

2 cans Franco-American Spaghetti

1½ cups left-over meat

¾ teaspoon salt

⅛ teaspoon pepper

Buttered bread crumbs

Chop Franco-American Spaghetti a little. Grind meat and add seasonings. Arrange in alternate layers in shallow, greased baking dish, finishing with spaghetti. Cover with buttered crumbs. Bake in moderately hot oven (375° F.), till scallop is heated through and crumbs are slightly browned (20 minutes). Excellent with fried apple rings. Serve prune whip for dessert.

THIS FRANCO-AMERICAN SPAGHETTI CERTAINLY SAVES LOTS OF TIME AND TROUBLE

LIVER EN CASSEROLE
A tempting meal in one dish

¾ lb. beef liver

Seasoned flour

4 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons flour

1 cup boiling water

¾ teaspoon salt

⅛ teaspoon pepper

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti

1½ cups cooked string beans

2 tablespoons chopped pimiento

Buttered crumbs

Wipe off liver with a damp cloth and cut in small pieces. Dip in flour seasoned with salt and pepper. Melt 3 tablespoons butter in hot frying pan and panbroil liver 3 minutes, turning once. Remove from pan and mix with Franco-American Spaghetti and string beans.

Add remaining butter to frying pan and blend with flour till smooth. Add boiling water gradually, stirring till smooth and thickened. Add to liver mixture and put in greased casserole. Cover with buttered crumbs and bake in moderate oven (350° F.) about 30 minutes, till heated through and browned on top. Serve pineapple upside-down cake for dessert.

GEE MOM, THIS SPAGHETTI CERTAINLY TASTES SWELL!

VEGETABLE DINNER

It’s easy to make vegetable dinners so attractive that everyone enjoys them. Simply select vegetables which contrast in flavor, color and texture. From each of the following choose—

1 green leafy vegetable (spinach or other greens, Brussels sprouts, cabbage)

1 white vegetable (cauliflower, onions, white turnip, etc.)

1 yellow vegetable (carrots, squash, corn), Franco-American Spaghetti

1 red vegetable (beets, red cabbage)

TASTY OVEN DINNER
Prepared in a jiffy

12 small onions

¼ cup grated American cheese

8 sausages

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti

Parboil onions and arrange around edge of shallow, greased baking dish or large glass pie plate. Sprinkle with grated cheese. Meanwhile panbroil sausages till slightly browned. Mix with Franco-American Spaghetti and turn into center of baking dish. Bake in moderately hot oven (375° F.) till spaghetti is heated through and cheese is melted. Serve with clover rolls and large fruit salads.

STUFFED CABBAGE
Make this an oven dinner

1 medium-sized cabbage

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti

3 tablespoons finely chopped green pepper

1 cup left-over meat (corned beef, ham), cut in pieces

1 teaspoon salt

⅛ teaspoon pepper

Cut away center leaves of cabbage, leaving thickness of 3 or 4 leaves outside. Mix other ingredients, fill cabbage shell and fasten together with toothpicks. Set on rack in covered roaster. Pour ½ inch boiling water in bottom of pan, cover and bake in moderately hot oven (375° F.) 30 minutes. Brush with melted butter and serve on hot platter surrounded by baby carrots which have been cooked in roaster around cabbage. For dessert, serve spice cake with hot nutmeg or lemon sauce.

IMAGINE! SUCH DELICIOUS SPAGHETTI FOR 3¢ A PORTION!

BEEF GOULASH
This calls for “seconds”

1 lb. round steak

2 tablespoons butter

⅛ teaspoon pepper

½ teaspoon salt

¾ teaspoon paprika

1 green pepper, chopped

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti, chopped

3 tablespoons flour

1 can Campbell’s Consommé expanded with 1 cup water

2 medium onions, sliced

Cut steak into 1-inch dice. Melt butter in pan over hot fire and brown beef. Sprinkle with seasonings and add onion, cooking till yellow. Stir in flour till smooth and add expanded Consommé and green pepper. Cover and simmer about 45 minutes, till meat is three-quarters done. Add Franco-American Spaghetti and cook 10 minutes longer. For dessert serve Macaroon Trifle. (To make, line bottom of sherbet glasses with bananas which have been dipped in lemon juice. Sprinkle with macaroon crumbs and fill remaining part with boiled custard or any prepared vanilla pudding.)

I NEVER COULD MAKE AS GOOD A SAUCE MYSELF AT HOME

BEEF & MUSHROOMS with SPAGHETTI

¾ lb. chopped beef

¾ teaspoon salt

⅛ teaspoon pepper

2 tablespoons butter

1 can Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti

Add seasonings to meat. Melt butter in hot frying pan and brown meat. Add mushroom soup, without the addition of water, and Franco-American Spaghetti, mixing well. Cover and cook over low flame till heated through. Serve with Brussels sprouts; apricot whip for dessert.

POACHED EGGS IN SPAGHETTI NESTS
Children love this delicious, healthful luncheon

1 green pepper, diced and parboiled

4 eggs

2 cans Franco-American Spaghetti

Salt and pepper

Mix green pepper with spaghetti and heat in saucepan. Poach the eggs. On each hot luncheon plate make a nest with a quarter of the spaghetti. Place egg in center, sprinkle with salt and pepper and garnish with parsley. A tempting dish for Sunday night supper, too, and easy as can be to prepare. Serve with mixed fresh vegetable salad; fresh berries or preserved fruit and cookies for dessert.

RUSSIAN STEAK
Tender and tasty

¾ lb. chopped beef

1 can Franco-American can Spaghetti

2 teaspoons salt

¼ lb. mushrooms, cut fine

1 egg, slightly beaten

2 cups shredded carrots

2 cups boiling water

2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce

Chop Franco-American Spaghetti fine, mix with chopped beef, ½ teaspoon salt, slightly beaten egg and shape into 12 small cakes. Dust with flour on each side. Cut mushrooms fine and brown in hot fat in a heavy frying pan. Brown meat cakes. Add boiling water, 1½ teaspoons salt and shredded carrots. Cover and simmer 20 minutes. Add Worcestershire sauce and simmer 10 minutes more. Serve with vegetables over meat cakes and a green salad. Preserved figs and cookies for dessert.

GEE, MOM, YOU SURE ARE A SWELL COOK

SPAGHETTI RING with VEGETABLES and COLD CUTS
A tempting “company” dinner

2 cans Franco-American Spaghetti

1 pimiento, chopped

2 tablespoons green pepper, chopped

¾ teaspoon salt

3 eggs, slightly beaten

Mix all ingredients well and turn into greased ring mold. Put brown paper into shallow pan, add hot water and place ring mold in it. Bake 50 minutes in moderate oven (375° F.), or until firm. Unmold on serving dish or chop plate and fill center with buttered vegetables (as string beans, diced beets or chopped spinach). If desired, surround ring with overlapping slices of cold meat (ham, liverwurst, beef or lamb). Strawberry or pineapple sundae for dessert.

CAN WE HAVE THAT SWELL FRANCO-AMERICAN SPAGHETTI FOR LUNCH?

SAVORY LUNCH CASSEROLE
A favorite with children or grown-ups

3 slices bacon, chopped

2 cans Franco-American Spaghetti

½ teaspoon salt

1½ cups cooked lima beans

¼ cup grated American cheese

¼ cup buttered bread crumbs

Cook bacon till crisp and add to spaghetti. Add salt to lima beans. Alternate layers of spaghetti and lima beans till all are used. Mix grated cheese with buttered bread crumbs and sprinkle over top. Bake in moderately hot oven (375° F.) for 30 minutes, till cheese is melted. Serve with a green salad; fresh fruit cup and cookies for dessert.

SPAGHETTI MEAT LOAF
A thrifty favorite

1½ lbs. chopped beef

2 tablespoons melted fat

1¾ teaspoons salt

⅛ teaspoon pepper

½ teaspoon sage

1 onion, minced

1 egg, slightly beaten

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti, chopped fine

Mix meat and fat with seasonings. Add chopped spaghetti and slightly beaten egg, mixing well. Shape into a loaf and bake in greased baking pan in moderate oven (350° F.) for 50 minutes. If desired, thicken juices in pan with flour and add hot water to make a gravy. Delicious with spinach and creamed carrots. For dessert, bake a plain cake at same time as meat loaf and serve with hot fruit or butterscotch sauce.

BACON SCALLOP
An easy way to make a tasty dinner

8 slices Canadian bacon

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti

1 can Campbell’s Pepper Pot Soup

¼ cup hot water

Buttered bread crumbs

Panbroil Canadian bacon slightly. Mix hot water with soup and add to spaghetti. In shallow, greased baking dish put alternate layers of spaghetti mixture and bacon. Cover with buttered crumbs and bake in moderately hot oven (375° F.) about 30 minutes, till heated through and browned on top. Delicious served with buttered green cabbage, pickled beets and banana-gingerbread shortcake for dessert.

I’VE FOUND THE WAY TO KEEP FOOD BILLS DOWN—YET SERVE MEALS WE ENJOY

CASSEROLE OF VEAL
A tempting dish for cool days

1 slice salt pork

2 lbs. breast of veal

1 teaspoon salt

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti sauce

6 small cooked carrots

1 cup cooked green peas or string beans

1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

Buttered bread crumbs

SURE, BOB, BRING HIM HOME. WE’LL HAVE FRANCO-AMERICAN

Dice the salt pork and melt out the fat. Cut up veal and sear in hot fat. Add salt and hot water to cover. Simmer, closely covered, for one hour. Chop spaghetti and mix with vegetables and veal. Put in greased casserole. Thicken 1 cup of the meat stock with 2 tablespoons of flour; add Worcestershire sauce. Pour over other ingredients. Cover with buttered bread crumbs and bake in moderate oven (350° F.) for half an hour, till dish is heated through and crumbs are browned.

TEMPTING FRIDAY LOAF
A grand emergency dish, too

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti

2 cups red salmon, flaked

2 eggs, slightly beaten

1 tablespoon parsley, chopped

¾ teaspoon salt

⅛ teaspoon pepper

2 tablespoons melted butter

Chop spaghetti and mix well with other ingredients. Pack in greased loaf pan and bake in moderately hot oven (375° F.) for 30 minutes. Serve with beet greens and buttered parsnips. Cup cakes may be baked at same time as loaf and served with hot nutmeg or fruit sauce.

SPANISH SPAGHETTI
Tastes as good as it looks!

3 tablespoons fat

1 medium-sized onion, minced

¾ lb. hamburger

1 cup celery, cut fine

2 tablespoons pimiento, chopped

1 green pepper, chopped

1¼ teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon paprika

1⅓ cups hot water

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti

Cook onion in fat till yellow. Add hamburger and brown. Mix with green pepper, pimiento, seasonings, celery and water. Cook 15 minutes. Add Franco-American Spaghetti and cook 10 minutes more. Serve with sliced buttered carrots; baked red cinnamon apples for dessert.

FRANCO-AMERICAN OMELET
New and different

3 eggs

¾ teaspoon salt

⅛ teaspoon pepper

1 tablespoon chopped parsley

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti, chopped

1 tablespoon butter

Separate yolks and whites. Add seasonings to yolks, beating till thick and lemon colored. Chop Franco-American Spaghetti and mix with egg yolks. Beat whites till stiff, but not dry, and fold into first mixture till well blended. Heat omelet pan and butter bottom and sides. Spread omelet evenly, cooking over low heat till delicately browned and puffy. Set in oven a few minutes to dry off top. Fold and turn on hot platter. Serve with salad greens, and fruit gelatine with whipped cream for dessert.

SAY, THIS IS WHAT I CALL A MILLIONAIRE’S DISH!

FRENCH MOUSSE

½ cup scalded milk

¾ cup soft bread crumbs

¼ cup melted butter

1½ tablespoons minced onion

¾ cup grated cheese

1½ tablespoons chopped parsley

1 teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon paprika

3 eggs, well beaten

2 cans Franco-American Spaghetti

Pour scalded milk over bread crumbs. Add butter, onion, parsley, grated cheese and seasonings. Add well-beaten eggs. Put spaghetti in well-buttered glass loaf dish or baking dish and pour cheese mixture over it. Bake in moderate oven (350° F.) till firm (about 50 minutes). Serve with mushroom sauce (below). Delicious with green peas.

MY WIFE’S A SWELL MANAGER. HER SPAGHETTI MEALS HIT THE SPOT

TUNA CAKES with Mushroom Sauce

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti

1 egg, beaten

1½ cups flaked tuna fish

¾ teaspoon salt

⅛ teaspoon pepper

½ cup water

½ cup bread crumbs

1 tablespoon butter

1 egg, slightly beaten with 1½ tablespoons cold water

1 can Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup

2 tablespoons chopped pimiento

Chop spaghetti fine. Mix with beaten egg, flaked tuna fish, salt and pepper. Shape into cakes and dip in crumbs, then in egg and again in crumbs. Chill in refrigerator 20 minutes. Fry in hot fat (375° F.) 1 inch deep in heavy frying pan. Drain on absorbent paper. For sauce add water to Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup and heat with butter and pimientos. Serve hot with tuna cakes.

CASSEROLE OF TONGUE
Unusually tasty

1 teaspoon prepared mustard

1 teaspoon onion juice

¾ teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon chopped parsley

1 cup ground tongue

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti

¼ cup water

Buttered bread crumbs

Mix seasonings with ground tongue. Then mix with spaghetti and water. Arrange in greased baking dish and cover with buttered crumbs. Bake 25 minutes in moderately hot oven (375° F.) till heated through and brown on top. Delicious with spinach and buttered carrots. Serve pineapple gelatine with whipped cream for dessert.

STUFFED PORK CHOPS
with savory spaghetti

4 pork chops, cut 1¾ in. thick

1 can Franco-American Spaghetti, chopped

3 tablespoons diced green pepper

1 teaspoon onion juice

1 tablespoon melted butter

Split lean meat in half, cutting to bone. Mix remaining ingredients thoroughly and stuff chops. Draw edges together with one or two toothpicks and dip in flour well seasoned with salt and pepper. Arrange in greased baking pan, with remaining spaghetti mixture around chops, and bake in a hot oven (400° F.) 40 minutes, turning once. Serve with broccoli and Harvard beets; lemon meringue pie for dessert.

YES INDEED, MADAM I CAN CERTAINLY RECOMMEND FRANCO-AMERICAN

JIFFY CHOP PLATE
As zestful as it looks!

1¼ lbs. sausage cakes or 1 to 1¼ lbs. chopped beef

1 teaspoon salt

⅛ teaspoon pepper

2 teaspoons minced onion

2 cans Franco-American Spaghetti

Brussels sprouts, peas or asparagus tips

Fry sausage cakes. Or if beef cakes are preferred, mix chopped beef and seasonings, shape into 8 cakes and panbroil. Meanwhile heat Franco-American Spaghetti and cook whichever vegetable is desired. Heap spaghetti in center of a chop plate or large platter. Around it alternate meat cakes and small mounds of vegetables. Garnish with parsley. Serve with a green salad; lemon tarts and coffee for dessert.

NO WONDER THE SAUCE IS SO GOOD. ELEVEN COSTLY INGREDIENTS!

FRANCO STEAK CASSEROLE
A savory dinner for four hungry people

¼ cup flour

2 teaspoons salt

1½ teaspoons paprika

½ teaspoon pepper

1 lb. round steak, cut in serving pieces

⅓ cup fat

2 medium-sized onions, sliced

2 cans Franco-American Spaghetti

1 cup cooked tomatoes, strained

1 cup hot water

Mix flour with seasonings and roll steak in it. Brown onions a little in hot fat and add to tomatoes. Sear meat quickly and put in large greased casserole. Place spaghetti, tomatoes and onions on meat.

Blend remaining seasoned flour with fat in pan until smooth. Add hot water gradually, stirring till smooth. Strain over casserole mixture and cook in moderate oven (350° F.) for 1½ hours, or till meat is tender.

A delicious hot meal packed full of nourishment

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You know how hard it is to find a food that your children will like, and which is really good for them.

Franco-American Spaghetti is just that. It is packed with nourishment—rich in proteins to build bone and muscle, and in carbohydrates for quick energy.

Hundreds of letters from mothers tell us that their children are quick to see the difference between Franco-American and every other ready-cooked spaghetti. Once your family has enjoyed the tasty deliciousness of Franco-American Spaghetti—with the extra-good sauce—they won’t be satisfied with anything else.

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Franco-American
SPAGHETTI
À LA MILANAISE
(TOMATO SAUCE WITH CHEESE)

THE FRANCO-AMERICAN FOOD COMPANY DIVISION
CAMPBELL SOUP COMPANY
GENERAL OFFICES, CAMDEN, N.J. U S A

BE SURE YOU GET
Franco-American—
THE KIND WITH THE
extra good sauce

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

Silently corrected a few typos.

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