Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-17
CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS

The following is the advertisement Of
one who might be termed q "handy.
man = flames Williams, parish clerk.
saxtone, town-crier and bellmau, makes
and sells all sorts of haberdasheries. gro.
ceres, ETC.; likewise hair and wigs drest
and cut on the shortest notice. N, B.
keeps an evening school, where 1 teach
at reasonable rates reading, riting and
r'thmetic and singing. N. B.-I play the
hooboy occasionally, if wanted. N, B.
My shop is next door, where bleed. draw
teeth and shoe horses with the pro.sest
sell. N. B.-Children taut to dsnce if
agreeable at sixpence per week, by me. ].
Williams, who buy and sell old iron and
coate, boots and shoes cleaned and mende6
n. B.-A hat and pr of stockens TO he
cudjelled for, the best in S on Shrof Tusb.
day. For particulars enquire within. or
at the horse shoe and bell, near the church,
on t'other side the way. N, B.-LooI
over the door for sign Of 8 pidpeons n
B.-I sells good ayle, and sometimes CIV.
der. Lodgings for single men. N, b
| teach jografy. algebry, and them ont.
landish kind of things. a ball on wens.
days and fridays"
specimen OF an indignant advertise.
.
should this meet the eye of the lady who
got into the the 1890 train at New Cross
station on Friday, May 18th, with two
boys one OF WHOM was evidently recover.
ing from an illness, she may be pleased to
learn that three of the four young ladies
who were in the carriage are very i'll with
the measles, and the health of the fourth
Is tar from what her relations could de.
sire"
The following, from an indignant hus.
band, ia culled from one of the Irish pa.
pers Run away from Patrick M'DaI.
logh. Whereas my wife, Mrs. Bridget
M'Dallogh, is again walked away with her.
self, and left me with her four small chill.
dreD, and her poor old blind mother, and
nobody else to look after house and home.
and, hear. has taken up with Tom Gin.
gan. the lame fiddler-the same was put
IN the stocks last Easter for stealing Bar
day Doody's game cock This is to give
notice that | will not pay for bite or a
sup on her or his account to man or NOR
tai, and that she had better never show
the mark OF her ten toes near my home
again. Patrick M'Dallogh. N. B.-Tom
had better keep out of my sight"
Perhaps the most curious advertisement
LOT w1fe that ever appeared In any paper
was that published in Bells Weekly Mes.
senger Of May %, 1897. It ran as follows /:
Matthew Dawson, in Boutwell,, Cumber.
land, intends to be married at Holm
Church, on the Thursday before Whit.
suntide next, whenever that may happen,
and return to Boutwell, to dine. Mr.. Reid
gives turkey to be roasted Ed. CIemen.
son gives q fat lamb to be roasted William
Elliott gives hen to be roasted Joseph
Gibson gives fat calf to be roasted. And
in order that all the meat may be we'll
basted do you see, Mary Pearson, Betty
Hodgson, Mary Bushley, Molly Fisher,
Sarah Briscoe and Betty Penthouse, give
each of them a pound of butter. The al.
vertiser will provide everything else for 30
festive an occasion. and he hereby gives
notice to all young women desirous of
changing their condition, that he is at
present disengaged and advises them to
consider that although there be luck in
leisure, yet in this case delays are danger.
Gus; for, with him. he is determined it
shall be fret come first served.
So come along lasses who wish to be married:
Matt Dawson is vexed that 90 'ong he has tarred.