advertising handbill , auch: handbill

"People who know of my interest in tracing the progress of black society through advertising send me everything from toys that were advertising premiums in their day - and are now folk art - to advertising handbills."

In his advertising handbill for his new electrolytic method of producing the metal 1892, Charles Martin Hall used the -um spelling, despite his constant use of the -ium spelling in all the patents he filed between 1886 and 1903.

Has a contract to deliver advertising handbills, for the local moving-picture theater which he farms out to his younger brother and four other boys and pays them in tickets to the theater and keeps some for his own use and sells the rest at a discount (four cents instead of five) at school.