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Burma-Shave
began to appear on U.S. highways in the mid-twenties. A Minneapolis insurance man named Clinton Odell was ordered by his doctor to find a less stressful line of business.   Along with a chemist, he made the curious choice of developing a brush-less shaving cream, named Burma-Shave, because Burma was where some of the ingredients came from.   Attempting to market the product door to door proved every bit as wearing on the nerves as the insurance business. Then, in 1925 Odell's oldest son, Allan, had the idea of installing signs alongside highways leading into the city.  And another legend was born.

 

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TRAIN APPROACHING IS HE LONESOME
WHISTLE SQUEALING OR JUST BLIND
PAUSE! AVOID THAT THIS GUY WHO DRIVES
RUNDOWN FEELING! SO CLOSE BEHIND?
BURMA-SHAVE BURMA-SHAVE


Shiver me timbers, Don't try passing
Said Captain Mack On a slope,
We're ten knots out, Unless you
But we're turning back! Have a
I forgot my Periscope.
BURMA-SHAVE BURMA-SHAVE


A Man who drives No more him.
when he is drunk No more her.
should carry They kissed
a coffin While going
in his trunk. 90 per.
BURMA-SHAVE BURMA-SHAVE


At school zones Hardly a man
Heed instructions. is now alive
Protect who topped
Our little this hill
Tax deductions. at 95!
BURMA-SHAVE BURMA-SHAVE

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