Puck, 1879-10-08 · page 13 of 18
Puck — October 8, 1879 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **primarily advertisements** rather than satirical content. The visible material includes shoe department ads from E. Ridley & Sons (featuring boots and custom footwear), fashion and photography services, and notices for silks and satins. The text snippets that do appear (discussing a barber, fire worship in Persia, a Persian boy, and anecdotes about Jones and a masher) seem to be **filler content or brief humorous pieces** rather than major cartoons. They reference social situations of the era—fire worship, workplace meetings, and courtship customs—but without accompanying illustrations visible in this section, their satirical targets remain unclear. The page functions primarily as a **commercial vehicle** for period retailers and services.
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PUCK. SOZODONT. To preserve the teeth and keep them pure and white, to prevent their decay, there is no preparation in the ‘market equal to SOZODONT. To preserve the gums in a natur- ally hard asd healthy condition, there is 20 superior to SOZO- DONT. To purify and sweeten the breath theres 20 rival to SOZODONT. For a perfect mouth there is no recipe like the use ef SOZODONT. Consequently it is no wonder that the popularity of SOZODONT as a dentifrice has no bounds. All Druggists keep it. NOT TOO CHEAP TO BE GooD. It's too cheap to be good—not a bid. *Thermaline™ is cheer fully acknowledged by the thousands who have used it to be the best medicine for Chills they have used, no matter what the price. A physician says “a 2s cent box of Thermaline cured a patient after he had taken over $3 worth of quinine and pills.” Quinine is 40 dear as to be almost beyond the reach of the poor. ORGAN FIANQ Fee inee BE EATT, 3 dre Pianssy teres Beers Iie BANU: F: BEATTY, Washineton, Sew Jory E, RIDLEY & SONS, Grand and Allen Sts, N. Y. SHOE DEPARTMENT ENLARGED AND DOUBLED IN SIZE. $1.50 A PAIR. LADIES, WALKING BOOTS, PEBBLE GOAT, BUTTON, PLAIN TOR AND HEEL, STITCHED BUTTONHOLES, SAME STYLE, WORKED BUTTONHOLES, $2 4 PAIR, $3.50 ‘A PAIR, $3 A PAIR. $3 A PAIR, $2 A PAIR, and #4. STRAIGHT GOAT BUTTON BOOTS, MADE ON SPANISH ARCHED INSTEP, STRAIGHT GOAT, BUTTON BOOTS, MADE ON PLAIN Last. | CURACOA KID BUTTON BOOTS, MADE ON SPANISH ARCHED LAST. DIAGONAL CLOTH TOP, CURACOA XID FOXED, DOUBLE SOLE, NEA’ HEEL, AND PLAIN TOE. BETTER GRADES, SAME STYLE, 12.60, $3, $3.50, ONLY $5 EXAMINE OUR CALF KID TOP STRAIGHT GOAT FOXED VERY SHOBT VAMP8, HIGH FRENCH HEEL, HAND SEWED. WE HAVE A BOOT SIMILAR IN STYLE AND FINISH TO THE ABOVE FOR $3. Notice Our School Shoes. PEBBLE GOAT, $1.25, $1.50, $2. STRAIGHT GOAT, EXTRA FINE, $2.50. ALSO, FINE CALFSKIN BUTTON BOOT FOR MISSES AT $2.50, EXAMINE OUR VARIOUS LINES OF 800,, $1.35, CHILDREN'S SPRING HEEL SHOES. $160 up. YOUTHS’ AND BOYS’ SHOES at $2, $2.50, and $3. YOUTHS' BUTTON BOOTS for (1.60; Bizes 11 to 2, Custom Department. HAVING MADE SPECIAL ARRANGE- MENTS WITH MANUFACTURERS, WE ARE, ENABLED TO FILL ORDERS WITH A READY DESPATCH. (7 A PERFECT FIT 18 GUARANTEED. WE RETAIN the LAST of EACH ORDER for the CUB- TOMER’S EXCLUSIVE USE. E. RIDLEY & SONS, 809, 311, 311 1-2 GRAND 87. 56, 68, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, and 10 ALLEN STREET. Tho “PUCK” CIGABETTE beats all. ‘Manufactured by B. Pottax, New York, “T have no beard," said a barber bold, “ But I can show its equal; And, like a tale that is twice told, I'll prove it in the sequel.” He called to him, then, his two brush boys, And said, ‘I run no risk, sirs, For I thus prove that I can rejoice Ina fine pair of whiskers. —Hackensack Republican, I must draw the lyin’ somewhere: Eli Per- kins.—Cin, Sat, Night. Proressor Proctor, the astronomer, has picked out 324,000 stars, He will soon have as many as the average traveling minstrel troupe.— Zurners Falls Reporter. As soon as a Persian boy gets old enough to run alone he joins a fire company, he does so worship fire. a fact it is almost impossible to have any other company than a fire company in Persia. They flame up immediately if you speak sneeringly of the smallest conflagration, and you cannot compliment a Persian more highly than to tell him to go to blazes.—Cin. Sat, Night. Jones is not without honor in his own house- hold. He goes home and tells of what “we” did at the meeting, while Mrs. J. and all the little J.’s look on in unconcealed admiration, And what did Jones do at the meeting? Why, just this: in a half-audible gasp he seconded the motion to adjourn. But he was prouder of that gasp, and it cost him more effort, than the gabbiest speaker among them.—Soston Tran- script, MasHep Masuer.—You say that you want a pet name for your girl, that every fellow calls his inamorata “sweetheart” or “darling” or “honey " or “dearest” or “ my love" or “my bird,” and you want us to suggest some pet name for her that no one else uses, one that will be unique and wholly your own. Your ambition is a laudable one, and we'll gladly help you. Call her “ Ferguson.” _ It is a good name and easy to spell, and we don’t believe, you'll be troubled by any other fellow calling his girl by that endearing title.— Boston Post, Some of these Mills Seminary graduates can throw a very powerful stream of words from the engine of their cultivated intellects, but they can’t bluff everybody. The other day a fully diplomaed Miss of eighteen walked into a music store on Kearney street and asked the clerk for a song, entitled ‘‘ Demonstrate by ocular proof the verdure of my sepulchre;” and, as he handed her a copy of “See that My Grave 's Kept Green,” and raked in thirty-five cents over the counter, he smiled blandly, and said: “Is the ditty known as ‘Argentine fila- ments interspersed with the aureate capillary attractions’ a novelty to your auricular reper- tory?” She concluded to go back to school for one more year.—S. F. News Letter. Ir was a lady with a check shawl, a reticule and a squint, who flounced out of the art-rooms on yesterday afternoon with a remark that “it’s an outrage that them there figgers ain’t got no clo's on.” Her husband, a stoop-shouldered man with a low-crowned, wide-rimmed soft hat, a rumpled necktie, long coat, short ‘ pants,”” and a beard under his chin, remonstrated: “Don't make a foolayerself right afore folks,” said he. But the dame was angered. “‘It’s a sin an’ a shame,” she persisted, and her off-eye twitched further out of true in the excess of her indignation. ‘It’s an insult to every woman that comes here, an’ what they've got on is wuss ‘n though they didn’t have nothin’.” “Will ye keep still?” mildly pleaded the old man. “No, I won't,” said she. ‘An’ the sooner you take me out o’ this Sodom an’ Go- morrer the better for both on us, I guess,”— Chicago Times, WILL PAY FOR EHRICH’S “Fashion Quarterly ” FOR ONE YEAR. I is the only absolutely reliable Manual of Shopping published in tne Usited Staten: containing ‘oenat fal Mla trttoes of all the latest Fashions ia Dress, Trimmings, Laces, Millinery, Household Articles: Rey accompanied with (all descriptions, aod a complete ist of METROPOLITAN RETAIL PRICES. ONLY FIFTY CENTS A YEAR; or 15 cents a single number. Send a three cent postage stamp for specimen pages of the Fall Number. Address EHRICH & CO., 287 to 295 EIGHTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. avs IMPORTERS AND MANUPACTURERS OF Gentlemen’s Hats, 174 Fifth Ave., 179 Broadway, Berwern 22d 2 23rd Sreeets, Neax Comriaxpr Sraser NEW YORK, Photographer, 1162 Broadway, Vienna, Philadelphia AND American Institute Fair, New York, AES MeCREERY Sp HAVE NOW ON THEIR COUNTERS REPRESENTATIVE a \SSURTMENTS OF THEIR: FALL IM Po RTATIONS Plain Colored TOGETHER WITH A VERY LARGE 8TOCK OP WHITE "SATINS Moulties for Bridal 3 and Evening Dress. ‘Tho variety and Chespness of the above stock cannot be celled. ———— The best Cigarette is the ‘Puck’ brand ‘Manufactured by B. Poutax, New York. comicbooks.com