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title: Homesickness Can Be Cured...
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/homesickness-can-be-cured-liggetts-1941/
description: Black-and-white drug-store sheet showing a helmeted soldier in a jungle camp holding a letter, beside a mock prescription from 'Makepeace Quick.
section: Collection
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[![Homesickness Can Be Cured..., 1941 US poster: Black-and-white drug-store sheet showing a helmeted soldier in a jungle camp](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/homesickness-can-be-cured-liggetts-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/homesickness-can-be-cured-liggetts-1941.jpg)

# Homesickness Can Be Cured...

Black-and-white drug-store sheet showing a helmeted soldier in a jungle camp holding a letter, beside a mock prescription from 'Makepeace Quick, M.D.' that orders 'U.S. War Bonds and Stamps every pay day until the war is won and our boys are back home'. The tell is transfer: the medical prescription form lends authority to a bond-buying request, with the store name at the foot.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Homesickness Can Be Cured...
MAKEPEACE QUICK, M.D.
ADDRESS, U.S.A.
Rx
Effective only when dispensed in large doses.
U. S. War Bonds and Stamps
Every Pay Day
until the war is won
and our boys are back home
Makepeace Quick, M.D.
THIS PRESCRIPTION CAN BE FILLED AT ALL LIGGETT DRUG STORES
[handwritten letter:] Dearest Bill, Wednesday ... darling, if you ... how I missed ... [illegible]
Liggett's
THE REXALL DRUG STORES
```

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