SPANDRILL MAGAZINE - NO. 76.2



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THE HURLINGDOWN MERCURY & ARGUS

(from various editions of 1867)




The Emperor Tomato is Ellisons Great Triumph. Potentate of the greenhouse. Conqueror of the domestic and international markets. We bestride the very world with our Emperor. New seeds are available now. Keen gardeners know where to find the sweetest and the most sumptuously fleshed.
---J & B Ellison, Trumpet Terrace, Knipstock, Hunts.

The Scorpion menthol suppository: our newest and proudest boast: you will straightway forget about your haemorrhoids . "Our rivals exaggerate the side-effects". Scorpion gets to the matter without delay. T M Scowcrop & Co. Ltd, Keighley.

Hornimann's Pyretic Saline - A morning and evening draught is a most agreeable and efficacious preventative and curative in fevers, bowel complaints, pustules and inflammations. It relieves a raging thirst and stems the pangs of hunger, love-sickness and minor lunatic fancies. If given with lime-juice syrup it is a specific in gout and rheumatic disorders. "Put off with that Laudanum, Nurse! Here's the Hornimann's!"

Lampwick's Compressed Instruments. - A most ingenious invention. Specialists in Pianofortes and Harpsichords: Improves the tone and renders indestructible the foundation. Also Crumhorn and Serpent: Will solidify and embolden the timbre and facilitate the easier handling and storage. Experts in the repair and maintenance of the Wexford Ladies' Bellows.

Coming to Oaklimptonleigh, from July 35th to July32nd:
Jos. Carnaker's Circus & Kaleidoscopic Carnival of Delights.
-With the biggest Big Top in the South West; Monkey Tableaux (this year featuring "Mr Darwin at Home"); House of Horror; Sylvino's Mystery Play; World of Curios; Mnsr. Tripod the 3-Legged Frenchman; Scenes from the Newgate Calendar (Alice Arden of Feversham, Jack Ketch, Joseph "Jumping Joe" Lorrison, Bartholomew Quailn, Catherine Hayes - the last woman to be burned alive in this Nation) to Appall & Instruct.



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