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Blatz Beer was produced by the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1851-1959. It was then sold to Pabst Brewing Company. It was the first Milwaukee beer to be sold nationally.

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The Gourmet Center Ivy Room Cosmopolitan Room and Delicatessen is the name of a restaurant that was located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.The University of North Carolina's main campus is located in Chapel Hill. The Delicatessen was known for its large assortment of fine wines.

An illustration of an old sour looking man with a long beard on the upper left. He is wearing a hunting cap and a blue shirt, and he holds a red apple and a light green ladder. Next to the man is an illustration of a coiled grey snake showing its fangs and red tongue. Below the snake is an illustration of a blue and red bird standing over its nest with two light blue eggs and smoking a cigarette. Below the old man is an orange and brown monkey looking straight ahead with wide eyes. The monkey is also holding a red apple. Behind the animals and the old man is a green rounded sunburst that resembles a bush, and the background is white.

Arthur Jones is an American artist whose main mediums include drawing and animation. Arthur was born in Plainview, Texas and attended the Rhode Island School of Design. Arthur has created visuals for the stage performances of This American Life and has been working on a project for the last five years in which writers present stories, on stage, written to Arthur’s post-it note illustrations. The performances are the Post-it Note Reading Series and it has recently been published in a book called the Post-it Note Diaries. Some of Arthur’s work can be viewed here on his website. Included on this website is “A Teeny-Tiny Itsy-Bitsy Comic” that was made for Busy Beaver Buttons. This comic was included with every order that was placed through the company and it provides instructions on how to take care of your buttons through illustrations of a friendly relationship between a beaver and a personified button. 

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Referencing a term popularized by Rush Limbaugh, this button was handed out at the Republican National Convention in 1996. During a show titled “Joblessness and the War on Men,” which aired on January 10, 2014, Limbaugh referred to his program as the first to “discover, in 1990, male lesbians.” At the 2012 Republican National Convention, Kansas delegate Mike Todd, a button enthusiast, was spotted wearing this button and others he had collected at Republican National Conventions over the years.  

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America on Wheels was a chain of roller skating rinks on the East Coast established in 1934.  The first America on Wheels rink was located in Closter, NJ.  By 1953, the chain had grown to add ten rinks in four different states.

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The Aladdin Club of Shriners was founded in the late nineteenth century when members of the Cincinnati based club made a new Columbus based club. The new Aladdin Club had "the objective . . . [to] cultivate the social virtues of its members and their families and the prevention of the intrusion of any profane unless they shall possess the qualities of head and heart which stamp them as gentlemen." Shriners clubs were first formed by Freemasons who wanted new fraternities that could emphasize socialization and fun over rituals. The Shriners did not expand rapidly at first, but after establishing a governing body that created rules for membership, temple formation, etc. the fraternities began to grow. By 1878 there were thirteen temples with a membership of 425 Shriners. Five of the temples were in New York, the state where the fraternity had been formed, two were in Ohio and others were in Michigan, Connecticut, Vermont, among others. The Aladdin Club, in Columbus, was one of the two Ohio groups. Although all of the temples participated in philanthropy, they were searching for an official charity to support. Noble Freeland Kendrick, Imperial Potentate Elect, in 1919 visited the Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children in Atlanta and saw all of the orthopedic needs of children in North America. This visit led to Kendrick’s national campaign to temples for this official philanthropy. The Shriners created a network of hospitals were children under the age of 14 (now 18) could be omitted if their condition could be helped. The first hospital opened in Shreveport, Louisiana September 16, 1922. Shriner hospitals continue to help children free of charge with the most advanced medical procedures. 

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AC/DC is an Australian rock band that was formed in November of 1973. Although they classify themselves as a rock and roll band they are often considered to be pioneers of the heavy metal genre. The band has had some changes in personnel throughout its career, but brothers Angus and Malcolm Young have been constant members throughout the band’s career. The band’s name came about when Angus and Malcolm’s sister, Margaret, saw the letters AC/DC on the side of a sewing machine. The letters stood for “alternating current/direct current,” referring to electricity. AC/DC really started to make it when they signed on with Atlantic Records for an International deal. After signing with Atlantic, the band’s logo was then designed by Gerard Huerta, the then art director at Atlantic Records, in 1977. The band continues to be successful and is, at present, one of the highest grossing bands of all time and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March of 2003. Some of the most well-known albums created by AC/DC are: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (1976), Highway to Hell (1979), Back in Black (1980), Stiff Upper Lip (2000), and many others.

ATCO, the smaller word that appears on this button, is an American record label that was founded in 1955 as part of Atlantic Records. The name ATCO is an abbreviation of Atlantic Corporation. Atlantic began to emphasize ATCO in the middle of the 1970s and used the label mostly to release hard rock bands. 

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The 100% Prophylactic Dental Club, also known as the 100% Total Vitality Dental Club or 100% Club, was an organization that was dedicated to preventative dentistry. The club consisted of members of the dental profession who were dedicated to the elimination of gum infections and other oral diseases. In 1920, the club voted to change their name to the American Academy of Applied Dental Science.