SOME FUNNY ADVERTISEMENTS
Below will be founnd some oddities in advertising • ‘ Teeth extracted with great pains.’ ‘ Babies taken and finished in ten minutes by a country photographer.’ ‘ Wood and coal split.’ The next appeared in a London newspaper, under the head of * For Sale.’ ‘ Pianoforte—cottage—seven octaves —the property of a lady leaving England in a remarkably elegant case on beautifully carved supports.’ And what does this mean ? ‘ Busines s chance —a genuine fried fish business at the West End ? ’ Does the genuineness apply to the fish, the business, or the way in which they are fried ? [Ed. Bell — lt could not very well apply to the business for it is a ‘ fishy ’ business. There are others deliciously inconsequent like the advertisement of a runaway, which furnished this valuable hint for identification : ‘ Age not precisely known, but looks older than he is.’ Or the notice a shoemaker puts on his door —‘ Shall be back in ten days from the time you have seen this shingle.’ Some, however, leave no loophole for doubt. ‘ Babies having taken one bottle of my soothing syrup will never cry any more.’ And on editor, puffing air-tight coffins said— < No person having once trie i one of these air-tight coffins will ever use any other.’
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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 201, 9 June 1893, Page 7
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208SOME FUNNY ADVERTISEMENTS Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 201, 9 June 1893, Page 7
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