Early "bullshit"

[Randy Alexander]

Does Scholtz's have an ad in the next issue? (Maybe with a correction or
apology?)
On Mar 19, 2014 5:24 PM, "Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at nb.net> wrote:

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> On 3/19/2014 4:23 PM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake wrote:
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> > N.L. Gage read an editorial from a New York paper, which stated that
> > the brick pavement was found very durable in Bloomington and other
> > small cities, and that the expense of keeping it in repair was very
> > small.  Wherever brick pavement had been used, it was giving unusual
> > satisfaction.  The total cost of the pavement runs from $1 80 to $2 50
> > per square yard, according to the bullshit of sand.
> >
> > (From "Will Pave; The Decision Arrived at at Last Night's Meeting,"
> > The Daily Commonwealth, [Topeka, Kansas], 31 August 1886, Pg. 5,
> > column 2; via newspapers.com.)
> >
> > (By the way, "bullshit of sand" may well be a typo for, well,
> > something, but that "bullshit" is quite clear. -- Bonnie)
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> Maybe (intentional?) typo. for "ballast".
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> > The second item is an advertisement that appeared in The Charlotte
> > [NC] News in March 1916. It's for Scholtz's Florist on North Tryon
> > Street.  I've uploaded to the following site a PDF including the ad
> > itself as well as a larger page view.  The file will be available
> > there for about a week.
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> > http://www.med.unc.edu/uploads/ecrcg.bullshit.pdf
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> > (That advertisement was also in the database at newspapers.com.)
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> I suppose a practical joke, or sabotage by disgruntled typesetter or
> something like that?
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> -- Doug Wilson
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