Puck, 1878-12-25 · page 14 of 16
Puck — December 25, 1878 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising and announcements page** rather than a satirical cartoon page. The main content includes: 1. **Puck's Pictorial Department announcement** — promoting a new general designing office with cartoonist Joseph Keppler available for lithographic portraits, addressing the theatrical profession specifically. 2. **Multiple advertisements** for period products: Piper-Heidsieck champagne and beer, Continental champagne, dental services, and back issues of Puck magazine. 3. **Daniell & Son** holiday goods promotion with pricing. The page serves primarily as **commercial space** rather than editorial satire. The only illustrative content visible is product imagery (champagne bottles) and what appears to be a small theatrical scene illustration at bottom right. This was typical of magazine revenue models—advertising subsidized publication costs.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
' PUCK’S Pictorial Dp SPECIAL L ANNOUNCEMENT, Havine completed all necessary arrangements, and in compliance with numerous 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- able rates, The Theatrical Profession will find it to their especial advantage, in arranging for LITHOGRAPHIC. PORTRAITS, to apply at this office, where Mr Joseru Keppter is in personal charge of the department, Address, Puck Publishing Company, 13 N. WILLIAX ST., New York. PUCK. DANIELL & SON ARE NOW READY WITH THEIR IMMENSE STOCK AND LARGE ASSORTMEGT Choise Holiday Goods,| EVERY DEPARTMENT FILLED §WITH USEFUL AND DURABLE PRESENTS SUITABLE FOR EVERY ONE. PRICES LOWER THAN OTHER HOUSES. DANIELL & SON, Broadway and 8th St. FOR BARGAINS GO TO WILLIAM H. SANDIFER, DIAMOND MERCHANT, 755 BROADWAY, Cor. Eighth Street,New York. Sa Dr. SWEENYW’S OLD ESTABLISHED AND WELL-KNOWN DENTAL ROOMS, ‘No. 6 £. 14th Street, near 5th Ave. ul Mineral Gum Sets, best Quality, greatest Durability fer gases ‘and $10.00, Pure Gold filling from fecth extracted with pure fresh Gas—free. Fhe above prices are for strictly First Cass Work, and you will do well totry us before going elsewhere. —Opea Evenings and Sundays. Bex. DENTAL OFFICE OF Philippine Diefenbach - Truchsess, 162 West 23rd St, bet. 6th & 7th Aves., N. Y. Lare 389 Cawat Street. Patent {COVERS FILING “PUCK” Price pe $1. 00. FOR SALE AT THE “PUCK” OFFICE, 13 North William St. ————————_ BACK NUMBERS “PUCK” Can be Supp! Bottling “America Extra Dry.” A.WERNER & CO., 308 Broadway} av Willmer & Rogers NEM “PIPER-HEIDSIECK.” Wo guarantes this mediom Ary wioe to be superior in quality to any other CHAMPAGNE. withont regard to cost. SEC” 1s moro adapted to the German and Eng bh ind 1s without bitterness and acidity, and dryer than Any wine Imported. It leaves the most delicious after taste om the palate. SoLe Agxwrs rm rme Uxtrep StatEs AND CANADA, JOHN OSBORN, SON & CO., Fouwpp m 1836, 45 Beavor Street, N. ¥., And 44 Bt. Sacrament Street, Montreal, At {0 Barclay St., near Astor House, in front of Cables’ Hotel, during the Bathing Season. Champagne on 7 Draught 10 Cts. a Glass And at Coney Island, at our Champagne Pavillion on the Beach, jo. 10 BARCLAY ST., N.Y. BS ‘SiWWid HZ ‘eseQ aad £2¢ ‘spend 21 ‘eseg sed ‘guiedweyg Aug e4yxq ,,2oewy,, comicbooks.com