Dr. Mills has a Good Remedy for an Aggravated Case of Obesity, 1888
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- Box 1, Folder 12
- Scope and content:
bound issue from April 11, 1888; Vol XXIII, no. 579. Lithographs address various topics, including: the presidential election of 1888 between Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, war tariffs and infant industries, and religious commentary. Lithographs include "Dr. Mills Has A Good Remedy For An Aggravated Case of Obesity" (title page; shows an oversized crying baby being fed "Mills Anti-Fat Tariff Reducer" by Dr. Mills. The baby wears a sash labaled "infant industries" and is seated on a chair labeled "war tariff"); "Quality Counts" (shows a scene of anthropomorphized animals gathering below a cliff. Perched on top of the cliff is Teddy Roosevelt as a male lion and below him, a female lion labeled "Democratic Party" is defending their territory against smaller, less predatory animals like dogs, cats, pigs, kangaroos, monkeys, and hyenas. The various smaller animals are labeled "Republican Party," "Prohibition Party," "War Tarrif," and "Labor Party," with some animals being labeled as members from the Senate GOP such as "Ingalls," "St. John," "Blaine," "Depew," and others. A pig, seen at the bottom left, labeled "War Tariff" has piglets labeled "Trust," "Pension Grabber," "Political Jobber," "Monopolists," "Trust" feeding from the pig); "A Big boom in Spirits--How They Will Be Utilized When We All Become 'Mediums'" (showsa series of vignettes of various ghosts/spirits. In the middle, Titania and "her Dupe" are seen talking about Don Quixote and writing wills)
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