I used to go door to door selling these when I was a kid, 9 through about 12 in the late 1950's. Everyone in Rowe, New Mexico used both of these for everything. The Rosebud salve was called "Salvia Rosa" in our Spanglish, Cloverine was called Cloverine with the word being pronounced in Spanish rather than English. I would order them by the roll and pay up front and then sell them at the suggested price and keep the difference.
About anything I could do to earn a few quarters was attempted. Selling Clocverine, Rosebud Salve, the GRIT newspaper as well as delivering the Las Vegas Daily Optic. All were ordered and paid for up front and you kept the profits. The Optic was a daily and sold for $.10 and the GRIT was a weekly of nothing but good news, no bad news on there at all.
If the GRIT was all you read the world was a rosy place to live where everyone seemed to have a lot more money than we did. This was where the ads for selling Rosebud Salve and Clovering could be found.
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