Puck, 1878-03-27 · page 14 of 16
Puck — March 27, 1878 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising and announcements page** from Puck magazine, not a satirical cartoon page. The main content announces Puck's newly opened "General Designing Office" employing cartoonist **Joseph Keppler** (likely the magazine's founder or prominent artist) to provide illustrations for theatrical productions and other clients. The page includes various product advertisements typical of the era—compressed yeast, bitter water, tailoring services, bookbinding—interspersed with brief news items in the left column covering miscellaneous topics (Philadelphia finances, an Illinois murder, Egyptian diplomacy). There are no significant political cartoons or satirical illustrations visible on this page. It functions as a business/administrative update rather than editorial content.
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- remedies offered. Dr. Mary Waker is learning to handle her fists, and Roscoe Conkling is reported as being fond of boxing. Can’t some one arrange a sparring-match between the two?—Fiilade/phia Chronicle-Herald, For the past few days the sun has been shin- ing brightly in Philadelphia during the morn'ng, but in the afternoon it leaves here and goes to Washington to get a stroke at Jim Blaine.— Phil. Chi onicle-Herald. By general consent the Republicans in Con- gress seem to have abandoned the administra- tion to its fate—except when they wanta friend appointed to office.— Baltimore Gazette. Ir wasn’t until a Brooklyn youth had stabbed his girl that she found out that she loved him. Young man, if you are in love, here is an example for you.— Phil. Chronicle-Heraid. Waen you go home to dinner and find nice roast-lamb on your end of the table, you wouldn’t call it a lamb-and-table discovery, would you?— Zhey all do it, even the Norristown Herald. RanbE, the Illinois murderer, is assigned to the horse-collar department in the State prison at Joliet. Mistake. In the eternal fitness of things it ought to have been the halter depart- ment.—J. Y. Mail. PuivapevpHia has long been sneered at by the balance of the country, but now, by Hea- vens! she is about to be terribly avenged. This week she turns upon the world some 250 young doctors.— Phil. Chronicle-Herald. AN “intelligent” auctioneer ‘was selling a small marble statue, and when some one in the crowd asked him if it was sound he confidently replied that it was “‘ as good as the day it came out of the foundry.”—- Norristown Herald. ‘A Kansas judge has decided, inasmuch as the law considers a man and wife one, they are both entitled to admittance upon a ticket ad- mitting “One.” Should the Khedive of Egypt with his nine hundred wives visit Kansas, places of amusement there will be closed during his sojourn.— Norristown Williams, A New York clergyman anxiously inquires, “Will heaven be crowded?” Considering the fact that the person who is morally sure of getting there has a soul only abour the size of a warped bean, there is likely to be room for a large number of liberal-minded persons.— Fu/- ton Times, FRIEDRICHSHALL BITTER WATER. Spring is apt to bring in its train a list of stomachic complaints, annoying if not serious, and many are the Experience has shown that Nature provides a purgative superior to any of the manufactured ones in the natural « Bitter Water ”” Springs of Germany. The favorite among these is that of Friedrichshall, whose waters are used in every quarter of the world with the happiest results, Bottled carefully at the spring, its good qualities are preserved unimpaired, and unaffected by any change of climate. In action this water is mild, agree- able, and efficacious, without any unpleasant effects. Kxowinc that our cigarettes are second to none, and learning that the red label has led many fastidious per- sons to suppose cigarettes put up in so attractive a style to be but an ordinary article, has induced the manufac- turers to prepare an elegant new and less showy label, hoping thereby to induce some of the many cigarette smokers who are prejudiced against Vanity Fair ciga- rettes to give them a trial, which will convince them of their superior excellence. The old label is not abandoned by this change. Connoisseurs may always depend on finding both Vanity Fair cigarettes and tobacco fully up to standard, WM. S. KIMBALL & CO. AND YET BEING SOLD AS. WORTHLESS IMITATIONS ie CEE GOUT IEEISCHMANN ke C08. CENOINE ARTICLE Friedrichshall : BITTERWAT THE ONLY PURE AND RELIABLE, Owes its great reputation to the happy proportions ofits ingre- Gients, which ‘have constituted it-an usapproachable and (ntsc Pensatie remedy lor constipation, inligestign, obstruction, pes, Exronie disorders of the stomach liver and bowels, gout, plethors snd rus ef blood ¢o the head, hypochondria, melancholy. lass tude, impurity ofthe blood and skin, eruptions or blotches, ‘Sit Henry ‘Thompson and Baron von Lsebig certify to its incon testable merits Dose, one or two wineglassfals every morning. Particularly appropriate for the spring sf the year Sotd everywhere and by the Agents, BOUCHE FILS & CO., 37BeaverSt,, N.Y. German Printing and Lithographic Inks BLACK.AND COLORED, for all typographic or lithographic purposes. ‘Manufactured by JAENECKE BROS. & F. SCHNEEMANN, Hannover. ‘Sigmund Ullman, 57 Maiden Lane, New York, Sole Agent for the United States. BRONZE POWDERS IN ALL THEIR VARIETY. NICOLL, The Tailor, —149 Bowery. 3.00 to $10.00 $12.00 to 840.00 2.00 upwards, TE. TEI, Pamphlet & Book Binder, 8 NORTH WILLIAM ST. - spect. binding of every description and Pass books for banks: —ee In Memoriam Brigham Young. To supply the demand for the above-named illustration, depicting the ‘‘ Mormon’s Empty Pillow,” and owing to the fact that the edition of “Puck” containing it has been entirely ex- hansted, the cartoon has been published as a singic sheet, and can be obtained from any newsdealer in the country. “PUCK” PUBLISHING CO., 13 N. William Street, New York. NOTICE. _ The PUZZLE-PICTURE—Supplement in No. 53, issue of March 13th: SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND, WHO DECIDES THE EUROPEAN QUESTION? . TO WHICH POWER MUST ALL THINGS YIELD? has been published asa separate sheet, and is for sale PANTS to order. S to order ion to everything entrusted to my care. i by all newsdealers, and at the PUCK office, at FIVE CENTS PER COPY, PUCK’S Pictortal Department SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. Havine completed all necessary arrangements, and in compliance with numerdus requests, the publishers and proprietors of Puck take pleasure in announcing that they have opened a GENERAL DESIGNING OFFICE, where the services of the best artists in America, including those of the dis- tinguished cartoonist, Mr. JOSEPH KEPPLER, are employed in furnishing all kinds of Illustrations, in the most perfect style, on short notice, and at reason- 3 able rates, The Theatrical Profession will find it to their especial advantage, in arranging for , LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS, to apply at this office, where Mr. JoserH Keprver is in personal charge | of the department. Address, Puck Publishing Company, 13 N. WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK. comicbooks.com