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... no. 41, JWTA. 71 O Estado de S. Paulo , 29 Jan. 1935, 5. 72 O Estado de S. Paulo , 5 June 1932, 5. Brian P. Owensby discusses similar Sul America advertisements in his recent Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the Making of Middle-Class Lives in Brazil (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1999...