Puck, 1878-09-11 · page 14 of 16
Puck — September 11, 1878 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The dominant content includes ads for Apollinaris Natural Mineral Water ("The Queen of Table Waters"), Isaac Smith's Umbrellas, Dr. Sweeny's Dental Rooms, and Best Marquis Cigarettes. The only substantive editorial content consists of brief satirical **news commentary items** in the left column—short quips about contemporary topics like yeast in bread-making, Kearney (likely labor figure Dennis Kearney), bankruptcy registers, Russian correspondents, and peaches. These are typical Puck humor: pithy observations on minor cultural and political matters rather than sustained political cartooning. The page represents Puck's **mixed editorial-advertising model**, where satirical commentary shares space with commercial promotions.
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14 PUCK. Tue common dong requires yeast to make it rise, but it is different with the tornado. — Phila, Bulletin. Mr. PuLtMaN says that if he can “with the Angell. stand” he will proceed to Sheriff-him. —Awful Phila. Bulletin, | We respectfully call Kearney’s attention to that bloated class, the registers in bankruptcy. —New Haven Register, ‘THe New York Hera/d's Russian correspon- dent has returned. He came via the Adiron- dacks and the Hudson river.—Boston /ost. Kearney is to stump speakers what the yel- low-covered novel is to the works of Shakspere and Sir Walter Scott.— Norristown Herald. Detaware can ship 700,000 baskets of peaches this year and have plenty left at home. ‘They were all killed last spring, you know.— Detroit Free Press, Hip-pockets are a comparatively modern invention.—/nd. News. Wrong again. Iip- pockets were invented by Hippocrates. — Louis- ville Courier-Journal, Epmunp Yates loves a cat, which eats at a table with its master. ‘This is the only dark stain on the cat's otherwise irreproachable character.— Burlington Hawkeye. : Ir did us lots of good, one day up in Min- nesota, to watch a young man hick at a tree | an hour and a half, carving his name, and then | spell it wrong.— Burlington Hawkeye. Insteap of standing up and swearing to a j straight story, Bishop McKoskry fled to Europe, | and there is no possibility that he will be in- vited to lecture at $200 a night.—New Haven Register. For the information of the general public we wish to state that Dennis Kearney bought this whole country when he first landed, and | has carried it on his back ever since.— Detroit Free Press, GeorGE WASHINGTON was first in war, first in peace, but even in his day.there were lots of | Americans who would never let him be first at | a free-lunch counter.—/%iladelphia Kronikle- | _ Herald. Ir is a mark of liberality to see a man put a ten-cent piece in the money-box of a street- car for his five-cent fare, and he shouldn't kick up a fuss about change and destroy the good opinion formed by the passengers.— Detroit Free Press. “Are grapes healthy?” asks an exchange. As a fruit, opinions differ. George Washington, d Christopher Columbus, Noah, Napoleon the || First, and Mary, Queen of Scotts, ate grapes, and they are all dead now.— Draw your own || conclusions.— Norristown Herald, Otive LoGan says that man existed over 600,000 years ago. And she tells the truth, We conversed with a man the other day who was bern just about that many years ago. He said the National-Greenback-Labor party would carry the State this fall.— or, Herald. “Way does lightning so rarely strike twice in the same place?” Professor Wortman asked the new boy in the class in natural philosophy. “Huh,” said the new boy, ‘it never needs to.” And it is a little singular that nobody had thought of that reason before. — Burling- ton Hawkeye. NO. CURE, NO PAY! CONTRACTS MADE FOR CLEARING HOUSES AND SHIPS OF ALL KIND OF RATS AND MICE, Principal Depot, 64 Fulton St., New York. B, ISAACSEN. THE GREAT EUROPEAN NOVELTY. HUNYADI JANOS. The Best Natural Aperient. APOLLINARI NATURAL Mineral Water, The Queen of Table Waters. HIGHLY EFFERVESCENT. passes that of all other known . Royal ‘Netley: ed v0 Patina A Wineglassful a Dose. INDISPENSABLE TO) THE TRAVELLIN Ev (limi BLIC bottle bears the name of Tue AroLtinarts Co. FREDERICK DE BARY & CO., 41 £43 Warren Strect, NEW YVORK+ Tsaac Smith’s Umbrellas | SEB i ee sows 7) CO, patented 200 ‘ SILK, parson frame 250 FINE SILK UMBRELLAS UMPRELLAS cout 7 DENTAL OFFICE Philippine Dieffenbach - Truchsess, 162 West 23rd St., bet. 6th & 7th Aves., N.Y. Lae 389 Canat Steer CANES in every st THE BEST ALL TOBACCO CIGARETTE. Sold by all Dealers and M:.nwfactured by B. POLLAK, N. Y. ——_ WHY Is Tv? Why do the people crowd { the Colton Dental As- use they do nothing without a but extract tecth, and constant the best manner, at 1c nearly all the best dentists in the ‘ents to them, sth—Bec y make city recommend « >. ty Cooper Institute, the gas fresh every ¢ Sz THE ARTISE PHOTOGRAPHER, 347 OTTO LEWIN, Tho well known Artist Photographer, 989 THIRD AVE.,8.E. Cor. 59th St, ¢ 294 BOWERY, above Houston St. THE ONLY HOUSE IN THE UNITED STATES wee SHUNGARIAN WINES ARE SOLD, WHICH . BEEN AWARDED FOR ~ PURITY” AND’ “SUPERIOR QUALITY” BY THE CENTENNIAL COMMISSIONERS, 1876. No connection with any other Housein the United States. comicbooks.com