Febris Investigations, 1886
- Containers:
- Box 1, Folder 5
- Scope and content:
bound issue from March 3, 1886; Vol XIX, no. 469. Lithographs address various topics, including: Dr. Willard Bliss's support of homeopathy; miscellaneous comics about home life and romance; and secret senate meetings. Lithographs include "Febris Investigations" (title page; shows a group of sickly patients sitting in front of a "Blissful Sanitarium," a sign behind them stating "Pay As You Go--DON'T SQUEAL." Dr. Bliss is seen administering "Bliss Cordial" to his patients, labeled "Lung Trouble," "Heart Trouble," "Alder-Manic Conscience Trouble," "Mr. Foshay Has a Sore Throat," "Molony the Cause of it all General Debility," "I Cer ), "His Satanic majesty takes a hint from 'the Mikado': how he will 'make the punishment fit the crime' in the dreadful hereafter" (shows a vignette with a devilish figure standing in the middle, wearing a Kimono and holding a fan. He is gesturing the vignettes around him, each showing various individuals in sinful situations); "Open the doors! The Secret Session of the Senate is in the Stronghold of the Spoils System--Abolish it!" (shows a hidden, closed door meeting between Senate members; one member is holding the door labeled "Senatorial Star Chambers" shut. Outside, a larger woman wearing a tiara labeled "Public Opinion" is seen knocking on the door). One other title page is attached to the end of the bound issue, titled "The Sharp Method--it works with any board of Aldermen," published March 10, 1886
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