Puck, 1877-07-25 · page 15 of 16
Puck — July 25, 1877 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Puck magazine (page 15), not a political cartoon page. The content consists of various commercial advertisements for late 19th-century products and services: - Wine and spirits importers (Hungarian wines, Champagne) - Dunlap & Co. gentlemen's hats - Puck's Illustrated Almanac (a publication) - Boker's Bitters (a patent medicine) - Steam radiators - Patent covers for filing Puck magazine There is one small illustrated advertisement showing what appears to be **Victorian-era domestic or social humor** (the "Corrs" steam radiators ad), but without clearer context or captions, the specific satirical point is unclear. The page demonstrates how 19th-century magazines funded themselves through advertising alongside editorial content.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
PUCK. ee Received the First Prize at the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876. RUNK & UNGER, No. 50 PARK PLACE, N.Y., Sole Agents for | Ayala—Chateau d’Ay| CHAMPAGNES. Lichtsinc struck a hive of bees in Kansas, | the other day. The painful-story is soon told. The misguided lightning came out of that hive | quicker than it went in, and shot off into with its tail between its legs. Moral: pick a quarrel when you are not acquainted with the folks.— Oi? City Derrick. ce lever | Conktinc is in Edinburgh, Every day he climbs up into the cupola of Walter Scott's monument, and leaning way out over the cliff, shakes his fist in the direction of the White House.—Richmond Enquirer. “ Beatrice,” remarked Queen Victoria, playfully, yesterday morning, ‘(I see that the editor of the Rockland Courier positively re- fuses to apply for your hand.” ‘The fair young princess blushed, laughed nervously, and then went up-stairs and had a good long cry.—Rock- land Courier, A wRITER says that when a swimmer gets a cramp, he should turn his toes toward the knee. Another good way is to turn your toes toward the middle of the pond, and paw for the near- est dry land.— Worcester Press. | A. AEN, Pamphlet & Book Binder, | 8 NORTH WILLIAM ST. Pamphlet binding of every description and Pass books for banks | a specialty. fersonal attention to everything entrusted to my care. PERFECTION. BOKER’S BITTERS. ‘DAPORTERS AND ACTURERS CF GENTLEMEN’ S HATS WAAR Ave, 169 Broadway, Berween 22d a 23rd part v6 Ree Comrtaxpt Strext, PUCK’S Tlustrated Almana, 8vo. 160 pp. boards. EDITED BY | uB2pouD SCHENCK and GEORG ASMUS. 100 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS ay JOSEPH KEPPLER. | ———- Only a limited number of advertisements of represent- ative business houses will be received for insertion in this | elegantly gotten-up publication, which will appear about | the middle of next September. Kerrier & SCHWARZMANN, PUBLISHERS. TAUNUS NATURAL SELSER WATER, | L. FUNKE, Jr., Sole Agent, IMPORTERS OF WINES, BRANDIES, ETC. a No. 78 Joun Stenger, N, P. 0. Box 1029. PATENT COVERS “PUCK.” From HILIWG PRICE $1.00 EACH. FOR SALE AT “PUCK” OFFICE, 13 North William Street, New York. BACK NUMBERS or “PUCK” Gan be supplied’on demand. ADDRESS, Publishers “Puck”? 13 North William Street, Willmer & Rogers News Co., 31 Beekman Street, oR, New York. New York. comicbooks.com