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title: This Store Sells at Fair Prices as Interpreted by U.S. Food Administration (Arkansas Card)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/this-store-sells-at-fair-prices-us-food-administration-arkansas-1918/
description: A landscape window card headed 'This Store Sells at Fair Prices' tells shoppers to deal only with merchants displaying it and to report higher prices
section: Collection
---

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# This Store Sells at Fair Prices as Interpreted by U.S. Food Administration (Arkansas Card)

A landscape window card headed 'This Store Sells at Fair Prices' tells shoppers to deal only with merchants displaying it and to report higher prices to the Federal Food Administrator for Arkansas. A boxed space is left for a newspaper clipping of the official list, and the card is void unless the week's list is posted. The tell is the official seal and membership wording lent to a store, while the shopper is enlisted as the enforcement mechanism.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
THIS STORE SELLS AT
FAIR PRICES
AS INTERPRETED BY
U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION
For your own protection deal with merchants displaying this Card in their Windows, and whose Prices on STAPLE ARTICLES do NOT EXCEED those authorized by the U. S. Food Administration, which prices should be shown in the form of a newspaper clipping. Lower prices may be charged but buyers should report any sales or quotations at higher figures to
HAMP WILLIAMS,
Federal Food Administrator for Arkansas, Little Rock, Ark.

Card No. 823
Issued to ________
Date ________

In the space at the right should appear current prices authorized by the Federal Food Administration for this County and should be in the form of a clipping from a newspaper published in this County. THIS CARD IS VOID UNLESS THIS WEEK'S LIST IS SO POSTED.

THE ABOVE STORE IS A MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION.

OFFICIAL FAIR PRICE LIST

PASTE CLIPPING
FROM NEWSPAPER
HERE

The Official Price List Will be Found each
________ [Day of Week]
in the Following Newspapers:
```

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