Punch's Almanack
Anon
Genre: | Announcement, Spoof |
Relevant illustrations: | wdct. [2] |
Subjects: | Telegraphy, Periodicals, Railways |
Proposes to communicate specimens of its jokes via the electric telegraph. Boasts that sending a small parcel of jokes to a Yorkshire railway terminus caused 'boisterous merriment' in the waiting room. Illustrations depict Mr Punch at a telegraph apparatus and people dancing outside a telegraph room. | |
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