No. 67
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
February 07, 2012

A New Gag.

Her health drunk by a young lawyer in slipper-full of champagne.
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JOSEPH GORMAN
alias: BROWN, CLIFFORD
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It Was Another Kind of Cat. | A Plucky Elberon, N. J., Girl

A New Gag.

female-vaccinator

Doctresses are increasing in numbers and in practice, though in cases where men are attacked by fever it seems difficult to understand how their ministrations can become effective, as, if good looking, they are likely to cause much more fever than they cure. A young female physician of Boston has taken away much of the custom of the male medicals. The "bloods" of Beacon street submit their Pilgrim Fatherly arms with much gratification to her as she vaccinates them, and bless the charming small-pox preventer. So the female element progresses.

Illustrated Police News, February 29, 1872.

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White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Sept. 1886—A young married woman of Washington, D. C. has her health drunk by a young lawyer in slipper-full of champagne at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.

A Summer Romance

Information from the White Sulphur Springs states that a flutter has been caused by an episode at a champagne party when a young married lady of fashion pulled off her slipper, and filling it with champagne, gave it to a young lawyer in the party and he quaffed it down. It is said the young lady is a Washington, D.C., beauty.

National Police Gazette, October 2, 1886

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