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Marble Hill Press

Location

Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America

Date

May 10, 1894

Page

7

Wit and humor mosaic of jokes and anecdotes

A lively collection of humorous vignettes and quips lampooning work life love and society. The pieces feature playful exchanges on funds free aid versus hypocrisy a mock court scene and carnival style punchlines with recurring characters and dated slang.

Dubious Praise and Critics over American Dickens Merritt

A witty exchange mocks critics who praise Merritt as American Dickens while calling Dickens overrated. A juggler and a wag discuss Miss Maul's Banter paintings, with a quip that alters perceptions about art and eggs.

Penfield Dickens Merritt Dickens

Curious 18th Century Book Titles and a 17th Century Consolation

A survey of odd literary titles reveals 1768 sermons to asses by Rev James Murray and a 1760 anonymous British work Did You Ever See Such Stuff a 1630 Handkerchief for Parents Wet Eyes on Child Death. The Radcliffe library holds a 16th century christall glass for Christian women Katherine Stubs. A 1595 Quippes for Upstart Newfangled Gentlewomen by an English preacher appears in this miscellany. A London second hand bookseller advertises a small religious consolation work from 1630.

James Murray James Sylvester British Museum Radcliffe Katherine Stubs Burton Upon Trent Staffordshire London

The Era of Muscle and Health Claims

A fragmenting collage of ads and musings on muscular vigor, health tonics, and public notices. It promotes Landlord rent complaints, a Columbian Exposition boast, and various patent medicines and remedies, with stray lines from Beecher and others, ending on a theft joke.

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Quotable maxims and ad blurbs from a period page

A miscellany of aphorisms on virtue, learning, wealth, and fate, paired with quips about education and character. Includes a Beecham’s Pills testimonial, a whisky book pitch from B M Wooley of Atlanta, and a cartoonish aside about Bulger’s life-size portrait.

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