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| NEW ILLUSTRATED HUMOROUS AND SATIRICAL |
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| WEEKLY PAPER, |
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| PUNCHINELLO, |
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| The first number of which will be issued under date of April |
| 2, 1870, and thereafter weekly. |
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| PUNCHINELLO will be _National_, and not _local_; and will |
| endeavor to become a household word in all parts of the |
| country; and to that end has secured a |
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| VALUABLE CORPS OF CONTRIBUTORS |
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| in various sections of the Union, while its columnists will |
| always be open to appropriate first-class literary and |
| artistic talent. |
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| PUNCHINELLO will be entirely original; humorous and witty, |
| without vulgarity, and satirical without malice. It will be |
| printed on a superior tinted paper of sixteen pages, size 13 |
| by 9, and will be for sale by all respectable news-dealers |
| who have the judgement to know a good thing when they see |
| it, or by subscription from this office. |
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| The Artistic department will be in charge of Henry L. |
| Stephens, whose celebrated cartoons in VANITY FAIR placed |
| him in the front rank of humorous artists, assisted by |
| leading artist in the respective specialties. |
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| The management of the paper will be in the hands of WILLIAM |
| A. STEPHENS, with whom is associated CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY, |
| both of whom were identified with VANITY FAIR. |
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