Early "bullshit"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/19/2014 05:22 PM, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>>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.
>>
>>http://www.med.unc.edu/uploads/ecrcg.bullshit.pdf
>>
>>(That advertisement was also in the database at newspapers.com.)
>--
>
>I suppose a practical joke, or sabotage by disgruntled typesetter or
>something like that?

Or organic fertilizer?  Does not necessarily conflict with a sabotage
by disgruntled typesetter, however.  And I note the large spacing
between "flo" [truncated "florist's"?] and "Bull"; additional mysteries.

Joel

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