Kelly-Springfield tires ink blotter c1925 featuring the famous Lotta Miles

Description

vintage ink blotter: "It costs no more to buy a Kelly"   Brooks Hardware Co.  Red Rock Oklahoma
with the beautiful Lotta Miles posing inside the tire*
Year of Publication: c1925
Size: 6" x 3"
Condition: unused, but a little aging (see pictures)
This is what Florence Court, otherwise known as Lotta MIles, said in an interview around 1920:
I am the most photographed girl in America. You see, I started my career as a professional photographer's model. It is a regular business. I was posed in every possible way and my picture adorned tooth paste advertisements, automobile ads, ads for silk underwear and corset ads.
That is how I happened to take the name of Lotta Miles. I am known all over the United States as the girl who is photographed in the ads about a certain well known automobile tire…When I went on the stage I took the name Lotta Miles – because the automobile tire is supposed to last a "lot of miles." Isn't that unique?
…I like musical comedies best. I never had the slightest desire to be a second Ethel Barrymore. I'm content to be myself as long as I can be a success. I worship success, and I don't care just how I make my success as long as it's genuine. If I have any ambition it is simply to be a success.
I am not like many people you interview. Most musical comedy stars want to sing in opera, and most operatic stars want to be acrobats or something similar. Well, I'm different. I want to be a musical comedy star. And that's that!…I'm not working towards anything, and I am content to let nature take its course. I have never played anything but leads in my life and I think that is a good reward.
I don't believe in starting in at the bottom and working up. I didn't enter the theatrical world by the cellar door – I'll say I didn't! No, I began on leads and I am continuing on them. My first show was
Fifty-Fifty Limited
in which I played the ingénue lead. I started out big and I hope I'll keep on that way. No chorus for me. When I started playing pictures I never was an extra. They gave me featured parts from the beginning…
I had a two-ton asbestos curtain fall on my head, and I am the only person on the stage who ever had this happen and lived to tell the tale. I was in Brooklyn, New York, playing vaudeville. I was in the midst of one of my songs when the asbestos curtain, which had never been used, and was rotten for want of care, suddenly slipped down on my head. The crowds screamed and there was a tremendous panic as I was taken away to the hospital. It was believed that I was dead, but here I am, as good as ever. It takes more than a two-ton curtain to kill me.