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This is primarily an **advertising page** from Puck magazine, not a political cartoon. The page contains multiple commercial advertisements typical of the era, including: - **Steinway pianos** (large display ad emphasizing awards and craftsmanship) - **Germania Fire Insurance Company** - **L. Somborn & Co.** (wine and spirits importer) - **Café International** (relocation notice) - **Boker's Bitters** (patent medicine) - **M. Krickl's stair plates** and **L.H. Hunninghaus** (upholstery hardware) The page also contains brief satirical snippets titled "**Puckerings**"—short humor pieces about fashion, social customs, and household management—but these are minor filler content rather than featured cartoons. The dominant content is commercial advertising, reflecting how 19th-century magazines monetized publication.

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q sae ception her husband appeared “‘without gloves.”” 3 We clip the following from the London Fun: | _ Another interesting fact as to the discipline GERMANIA and domestic economy of the Hayes household: }) | ree TNSURANOE COMPANY. = scant = YAN , Our American Special telegr: tthe | We anxiously await further information as to aque of the presidential election has been i Wehsve cabled him back wo wie when hes wired toyandact | the number of stripes on Hayes’s socks (if he | Tien has any). Does he ever wear a shirt? There Principal Office: 175 Broadway. | How refreshing these jokes are! As they | are several other things we also wish to be set BRANCH OFFICES: have only been made a few thousand times | right about. Does Hayes clean his own boots ||| 967 sowery, Vow 2ore, i 4 during the late campaign, they, at any rate, are | with Bixby’s blacking. and if not, why not? F, pe Mauicnox, Business Manager. boat Fouts s Cs & &., Brookiyn, an indication that our English cousins are not | Do his pants get bogey at the knees? Jenkins Witloughty (yates behind us in wit. can perhaps tell us. We can't afford io have 236 Washington 81, Hoboken, these valuable presidential characteristics neg- we. HL. Srrotwer, Bosiness Manager. i LEARNED SEVERAL Lan. | lected, out of charity to the historian of the fect her pronunciation, desires to make | future. man eflunive speaking his ative cogoe rain e ts learn English proper in exchange: Sotecchers need apply. Address box j.7pr, Poxt office. The above advertisement in the Herald is From a fashion article, we learn that ‘you {ar Over $4,000,00000 have already been pald to parties not so perspicuous as might appear from a | can get a cashmere shawl from $40 up to $5,000." —_ | single perusal. Why does the young lady tell | But it isn’t of so much importance how to PUCK * : 15 4 ’ Puckerings. JeNxins notes that at Mrs. Hayes! last re- } | | | Capital $500,000,-Surplus $1,196,110.20 i Total Assets, July 1, $1,696,110.20. us she has learned several languages? Inwhich | get the cashmere after you've got the money, Ss one does she wisli to perfect her pronunciation, | as how to get the mere cash before you buy the L OMBORN & C0., and in what native tongue does she want the | shawl. No. 12 Vesey St., adjoining the Astor House, New York. gentleman of leisure to speak grammatically | . IMPORTERS OF This prospectively happy individual is, in ex | Geneat. Grant has presented to General FOREIGN WINES, BRANDIES, &o. change, to learn “English proper”—by whic : ; : Sole Agents for ih we should judge that English is nof one of the | Drexel, of Philade}ph sehaa Re tae tat there, Apollinis Natural Mineral Water, . - | several languages acquired by th hi en. . t rs —— See ar to. eachemtare-tt ee ae lady President is now reversing the order of things. | HOCK & MOSELLE WINES from L. Soxnonx, Frankfurt a. M. And yet no teachers are to apply. We are BOONEKAMP OF MAAGBITTER : completely puzzled, a from H. Unpaxsanc-Atsaacurr, Rheiaberg y li <5 : INESS NOTICE. ‘Tis from “Hotel Notes” in the Evening ee REMOVAL. i }) Afail: We call attention to the removal fof the well-known q Say Nublclotyee, oUthy Abentecn, Broadway aod Tweaty-first | Cafe International to its new quarters, No. 699 Broad- THE Not is that "fact? way, where Chess, Reading, and Billiard rooms combine x | . to render a visit enjoyable. | Mcintyre, we haven't the pleasure of your | °° °°" * "tS? Cart INTERNATIONAL ; acquaintance, but please don’t allow such start- PERFECTION. HAS REMOVED t { ling items as the above to appear without due Hi } | and timely warning makes us nervous, "I 3 Please do reconsider your dreadful determina: BOKER’S BITTERS,}). . poaeraess th i tion, or what is to become of the Mansion 2, Jr, Sole Agent, No. 699 BROADWAY, iq House? We pause for a reply. No. 78 Jonn Staext.N_Y. iS Corner 4th Street. S. LIEDER S. sxwaY & Sovs have been decreed the supreme recompense, vit TWO MEDALS OF HONOR and TWO DISLOMAS OF MERIT be “tcenteably the highest honors Petgrd spo ay pe delay ot he Comer Eshittion. "To Meson. Steinway only has heen accorded, by the unaitraoue sa of the agen, wim micnnsT DEGREE OY EX- the following official report on the STEDYWAY. WY ALL THR STYLE For greatest concert capacity in Grand pianos, as also highest degree of excellence ia all their styles of pianos, viz: Largest volume, purity and duration of | tone, and extraordinary carrying capacity, with precision and durability of mech- anism; also novel disposition of the strings, and construction and bracing of th metal frame.” Ace this the report minately describes and indoeses the six principal and most valuable of Srmixway's patented inventions, Yolen have made “Tur Srainway™ THE STANDARD PIANOS OF THE WORLD. Sraivway & Sons, being the only piano-makers who, manufacture “every portion” of sheeartntn, Netodieg ules melas eee peeca wun an taitieen! Hebi aed Die ploma of Merit passing. excellence” of thet Machinery Hall exhibit upon the fol-_- eport ofthe same judges: of composite mefal show the highest perfection of finish and workmanship and the greatest firmness and uniformity of metal structure, a steelike and sounding quality, with a tensile strength exceeding 5,000 Ibs..per square centimeter, as demonstrated by actual tests. The full metal frames of cupola shape, possess an unequaled degree of resistance, permitting a vastly In- creased tension of strings without the slighest danger of break or crack In sald metal frames, thereby considerably increasing the vibratory power, and augment- t ing the tasting qualities of their instruments.” FIRST GOLD MEDAL OF HONOR, PARIS, 1! — FIRST PR! L, LONDON: EXHIBUTIO! 1862, EVERY PIANO WARRANTED FOR FIVE YEARS. {a7 Ilkstrated Catalogues mailed free on application. STEINWAY & SONS’ WAREROOMS; STEINWAY HAL Nos. 109 and 111 East Fourteenth Breet, ‘NEW YORK. ACanuTACTURED yep my), S22 ; FL-HUNMINGHAUS- rut PAE AND TRIMMINGS, Ccomicbooks.com