Word: bug
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...June-bug and I'm a beetle...
...June-bug and I'm a beetle...
...preliminary arrangements preparatory to a visit to the East having been made, Mrs. Butterfield and Benjamin started for Chicago, where they were to take a sleeping-car for Boston. Mr. Butterfield remained at home to meet a sudden demand for his "In Excelsis Bug Exterminator," caused by the arrival of a band of French Canadians, who proposed settling on the farm-lands in the immediate vicinity of Saug Centre...
Then there were little boxes in the window with odd labels, such as "Peerless Corn Salve;" "In Excelsis Bug Exterminator; buy it, try it, and be no longer annoyed with cockroaches in your kitchen;" "Patent Labor-Saving Cleaning Powder," with the face of a female with abundant hair reflected in a table-spoon, and the like...
...residence of Mr. and Mrs. Junius Antoninus. Dancing will be kept up until next week. The banquet is being furnished by the caterer, Lucius. Among other things on the menu, which were engraved on gold, we notice "perfumes of Araby, fried in crumbs; Phrygian zephyrs, with June-bug wings; hum of Cicadas, with dissolved pearl sauce, beside many other rare and novel dishes. As we go to press the company are enjoying themselves immensely, three have been poisoned and the rest are all drunk...