I quote the following specimens, taken at random from the columns of the Era:
A YOUNG MAN, completely disarticulated, wishes to enter into an engagement with a travelling troupe.
This artist can be described in the placards either as the india-rubber man or the serpent man. He undertakes the monkey parts in pantomimes.
MISS MAGGIE VIOLETTE (fixed bars) is free from any engagement after Christmas.
A FATHER offers to managers a young girl, fourteen years old, who has only one eye, placed above the nose, and one ear on the shoulder.
The Era has an American rival also published in English, The New York Mirror. This newspaper has only one advantage over the Era: it publishes portraits.
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