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Blake’s Big Show: Where the Buffalo Hang and the Possums Roast!

Blake’s Big Show: Where the Buffalo Hang and the Possums Roast!
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Blake’s Big Show: Where the Buffalo Hang and the Possums Roast!

“Bear meat! bear meat! bear meat!
Buffalo meat! buffalo meat!
Venison! venison! venison!
Turkeys, roasting pigs, coons, possums, chickens, ducks, geese, and the finest beef, mutton, veal, pork and lamb in the city, at Blake’s, Saturday and Monday, December 22nd and 24th.”

“Go to Blake’s big show and see the Buffalo hanging whole hide and head on; Bears with their skins on; Deer with their horns, and all the other curiosities, Saturday and Monday, December 22nd and 24th.”1

  1. Bear and buffalo meat; Blake’s big show coming. (1877, December 15). Portsmouth Times, p. 3.
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