Boston Post Newspaper Archives, Jul 9, 1884, p. 2

Quips and curiosities from a bustling era

A collage of wry observations and jokes on gambling, marriages on Fridays, a barber and mustache, a long lived goldfish, pawnshop crowns, bicyclists, chalk as mosquito relief, Boston culture, earth shape debates, paintings as not furniture for tax, tea giveaways with paintings, and Holderness dog soul beliefs.

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