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GUSKY'S DEPARTMENT STORE AD

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SOCIETY DOCTOR HUMOR

The Older Doctor--It is remarkable, doctor, how suddenly you have become popular, and how often you are called to the finest house, especially to treat ladies. How do you manage it?

The Younger Doctor--O, I take care that my patients have only the most fashionable diseases!

1900 NEWSPAPER HUMOR

Bacon—It’s hard to hear that girl sing without being moved.

Egbert—Yes; I understand 4 families who have lived next door to her have been moved after hearing her sing.

 (from Yonkers Statesman)

Butterfly—Magnificent, sir! There are scenes in your comedy that Shakespeare himself could not have written.

Dapter---You are too kind, really.

Butterfly--“Not at all, sir. Take for instance, that railroad smash-up in the third act.

(from Brooklyn Life)

“I guess Binx has just had a raise in salary.” Said the confirmed cynic.

“Has anybody told you so?”

“No. But he goes about saying he thinks the world is getting better, and that the danger from trusts is greatly magnified, and that human nature isn’t so bad after all. That’s the way a man nearly always talks just after he has had a raise in salary”

 

(from the Washington Star)

Did you know a laxative could do so much?

1900 BREMER CYCLE AD

1900 WISCONSIN TELEPHONE ADVERTISEMENTS

1901 CHRISTMAS PRESENT PRICES

     

1900 WINE OF CARIDUI

This "vegetable compound" for female complaints sound innocent enough. It is full of various herbs but the alcohol the herbs are in is probably why the compound was so popular. Proper, upstanding women really couldn't drink, but a health elixir is something else.

FOOD SHOPPERS ARE AROUSED

1900 MILWAUKEE DENTAL ADVERTISEMENT

Vitalized Air was a sort of trade name for anesthesia.