No. 84 - The Lightning Sausage, or The Magic Bologna

figure showing an ad from an 1876 novelty catalogue with a sausage springing out of a small box. There is lengthy copy describing how it will amaze your friends Caption text is: Figure 11.3. Entirely new things, many early novelties like The Lightning Sausage, a.k.a. The Magic Bologna, required not only detailed textual explanations but also illustrations that would both show and tell what they would do. Eureka Trick and Novelty Co., Illustrated Manual of Tricks, Novelties, ... 1876.
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figure showing an ad from an 1876 novelty catalogue with a sausage springing out of a small box. There is lengthy copy describing how it will amaze your friends

Caption text is: Figure 11.3. Entirely new things, many early novelties like The Lightning Sausage, a.k.a. The Magic Bologna, required not only detailed textual explanations but also illustrations that would both show and tell what they would do. Eureka Trick and Novelty Co., Illustrated Manual of Tricks, Novelties, ... 1876.
from "Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America", by Wendy A. Woloson

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