Free Radio for Selling Newspapers: 1922

A hundred years ago, if you were a kid in South Bend, Indiana, and you wanted to get in on the excitement of radio, then this deal was for you.

All you had to do was sell twelve new subscriptions to the South Bend News-Times (just 20 cents a week for a minimum of 13 weeks), and you would earn yourself a radio receiving machine, absolutely free. This ad ran in the paper’s June 1, 1922, edition.